TAPANUI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 155, 26 January 1871, Page 6

TAPANUI.

Jan. 15, 1871

A Petty Sessions Court sat at Mataura Bridge on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Dr. Menzies, Chairman ; Messrs. Turnbull andM'Nab,J.P.'s. J.M'Lean, Tuturau, was charged by Constable Purdie, with having a dog on his premises withont being duly registered on 2nd Nov., 1870. The Court fined him L2, and 6s 6d costs. H. L. Squires, Mimihau, was also summoned under the same clause of the Dog License Ordinance, and lined L2, and 6s 6d costs. I may add that a number of settlers in this neighbourhood have suffered great loss and damage by useless dogs killing their sheep. The settlei's have exexpressod their approbation of the steps taken by Mr. Purdie to check the nuisance. People should not keep useless dogs without being registered, and if so, they deserve to be justly fined.

Mr. Cameron, who keeps the hotel on the Southland side of the Mataura Bridge, has got notice to quit, (it being a Government building) so that it may be converted into a Police Camp and Court House, a want that has been much felt since the population has become so numerous in the Tuturau, Mokereta nnd Toitois districts. The nearest Police Station to these places being Tapanui. The constable attends at the Petty Sessions Court, Mataura Bridge, monthly.

The Resident Magistrate's Court sat on Saturday, 14th inst., before John Nugent Wood, Esq., R.M. — Alex. Kilgour v. J. M'Loughland — Debt of LS 18s 6d, for bread supplied. Adjourned from last Court day — L 3 paid to plaintiff. Verdict by default for balance, L 5 13s 6d. Stewart and G-ow v. J. Etheredge — L 47s 9d for goods supplied. Postponed till lltli February — summons not returned. Stewart and G-ow v. li. Copeland — debt L 2 10s Id, goods.supplied. "Verdict for amount, with coats, and in default — distress. Emily Campbell was charged by Constable Purdic, wiUi being drunk at the Police Camp, on the 23rd December, 1870— fined 10s. Edward Rowland, charged for being drunk and disorderly in a public place at Tapanui, on 27th Dec, 1870, was discharged. He was also charged with breaking a lamp in Noblo'p Hotel — damages LI, or 3 days in H.M. Gaol, Lawrence.