RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

West Coast Times, Issue 173, 9 April 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Beforo G. G. FitzGlorald, Esq., R.M.)

Saturday, Apiul 7th. Drunk and Disorderly.— Robert Frith and David Murray were, for this offence, fined £l, or in default, forty-eight hours imprisonment. Drunk and Incapable.— -Henry Broom and Joseph Brown were fined 10s. for being drunk and incapable, or the usual alternative, twenty- four hours imprisonment. Violent Assault I—William1 — William Burke was charged by his wife, Hannah Burke, with assaulting her most violently, on the evening of the. 6th instaut. The prosecutrix, who bore traces of great ill usage, begged that the prisoner might be bound over to keep the peace towards her. The prisoner accused his wife of inconstancy. The Magistrate said it was evident that an assault had ibeen committed, and that the prosecutrix had sworn she was in bodily fear of her life, consequently he had no option in the mattor, and ordered the prisoner to find sureties to keep the peace for six months, himself in £50 and two sureties in £25 each. The Resident Magistrate, before adjourning the Court, gave judgment for the defendants with costs, in the case of Hardcastle, v. Louisson and Co., reported in our issue of Saturday, stating at the same time that his decision did not determine to whom the goods belonged, •The Court then adjourned until this day at eleven o'clook, a.m.