RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

West Coast Times, Issue 580, 3 August 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Q-. Gr. Fitzgerald, Esq., E.M.) Feidat, August 2.

Larceny. — John Brown, charged with stealing wearing apparel, the property of ll> Mansoiv, was b.rougji^ Up fifr sentence. His worship sentenced him. to three months imprfsontufent with hard labor. Drunk and Disoedeelt. — Thomas Phillips was fined LI, with the alternative of fortyeight hours impi'isonment in default of payment. A further charge of indecency was preferred againat Phillips, for which he waß fined L 2, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for four daya. Obstructing the Thoroughfare.— Mulligan and Halligan were charged, on the information of the policej with obstructing the thoroughfare, by allowing eight cases td remain thereon. His Worship inflicted a fine of LI with costs. .

Ikfobmjation Demanding SraEty ojp tj£b Peace. — John Clark wa£ charged; on tile information «if his wife, with assaulting her on tho 26tli ult., by throwing a *stone at her ; and, further, with threatening to take her life. Tho complainant asked that tho defendant bo bound over to keep the peace towards hor. On tho night in question tho nefeudant accompanied by two or three other blackguards congregated round the complainant's house, and not being content with abusing the complainant, one of them threw a stone .through the window. The stone pdsscd close to tho coinplainaut's cheek, who was at tea, struck the wall opposito tho window, and broke a picture. His Worship ordered the defendant to find sureties of the poace for three months, himself in LSO, and two sureties in L 25 each.

A similar information, laid by Sarah Allen against Robert Allen, was dismissed, uoithcr party appearing.

CIVIL CASE?.

There were two or three civil caßes for small deht disposed of, hut they were devoid of all public interest whatever-.