POLICE COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 434, 9 April 1880, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

MASTERTON, THURSDAY. (BEFORE' H.' S; WARDELI/.' ESQ,, B. Itf,) OKIMISAL LIST. . Constable James Divin charged J. Thompson, H. Rose, J. Parker, and H. Boylo with threatening and -abusive language used to, him on tho 30th of March. ' . . .. . ... , ■ ■ . .Constable Divin deposed that he was a nwmber of the., Armed Constabulary, and was sent, to Mnsterton iii charge of the Wellington unemployed. The four defendants .were' of the party. After the party moved out of- the Government Cottages, a dispute arose from defendants erecting a tent whioh -he was entitled to..' Thompson said witness was'incompetent • to hold-theßitii;!tion;he.:did.,, Rpse.'called witness "a b~ lunatlo. Boyle' 7 -said, " y Oiily that you were an olfr riiatf,; I

Jeer annoyed him, but witness coUld.not [ 'Speicify thprds^arke|;used. : \!s < ; 'The Court the iniprm&-; : ii '•{ion, aß|M,M;it' jt • VVitneaß said thjjtjha\fenKwas. t on the after an anting scene -of we - ( .of a stick and a stone, was defll£red->mfi- ' ■ valent. . Witness in .crpss-eXajninatigti, • •said- . ■! His "memory was apparently not suffl-' c ciently.strong M enable him to sustain a ■fiatißfaotb)'y;^roHa-exßmihati6h.^ :-: With"eßs'" could not say whether, the rations had < been properly' distributed, He had no | scales and weights supplied to hiri. 'He ( might, by mistake, have given SOlbs of , bread out in place of 7slbs, but did-not , remember doinc. so. :. ' s The Court said that Aoyl'e's was;the j only case that required detending, the' \ others might stand'down, After, further, evidence the Court, decided thai it''could- not convict Boyle on the evi ence brought before it. . i One of the defendants', who stated that < he had been reading the Justice of the 1 Peace" Apt_.(a laugh), asked for a certifi- < cate from the Court to show that the in- f formation was dismissed, The Court said the certificate could be obtained on application to the Clerk, .. The defendants, who had exhibited considerably more intelligence in conducting their case than the prosecutor had in establishing his, then withdrew. I Constable Fleming v J. Payton.— . Breach of Borough by-laws, in allowing a chimney to catch fire. Defendant pleaded ! that there had been no negligence on his : part, but the Court ruled that he was responsible for the negligence of others, and inflicted a fine of 5s aud costs. Report to be continued in next issue.