RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, WELLINGTON.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1910, 22 August 1863, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, WELLINGTON.

(Before H. Si Hill, Efcq., 8.M.) Tuesdat, 18th August. ■William Flowers, for drunkenness, was fined 10s, and In default, committed to prison for 48 hours. W. Tuff ts, a soldier of the 14th regt, charged with stealing & coat from the house of O. Sexters Bead, on the 6th July, 1863, remanded to the 24th August Wednesday, 19th August. Mary Noble, charged her hnsband, Joseph Noble, with neglecting to maintain her (his wife) and family— Chargo dismissed; the complainant seeming to labour under mental delusion. Thuesday, 20th August. George Hughes was fined <s for drunkenness. John Carroll was fined 10s and coßts for druukenness. George Lee and Bebecca Annßiddle were brought up on remand, charged with felony, and remanded to Friday, for further examination Andrew Watson, and John Maxwell, two soldiers of the 14th regt, wore charged with a. felony in the house of Mr Heirs, on Sunday, the 2nd August inBtani, and were remanded to the 27th instant Fbidat, 21st August. E. Bracken t. J. Murphy — Debt, 12s 6d— Plaintiff nonsuited. George Lee, a, soldier of the 14th regt, and Bebecca Ann Biddle, were committed for trial, and witneßses bound over to prosecute, and give evidence against tbe priwners fyr Jwyfcfi oo the 2ift el July, 1663, stolen

r$ from the dwelling house, la "Wellington, of John Simons an engineer of the Storm Bird, steamer, a silver huntin; B watch, with a gold albert chain attached, four gold rings ig and various articles of wearing apparel — The house wa .„ entered by a pane of glass (which was quite sufflcientl; large to allow the male prisoner to enter the house), am re the robbery was effected during the absence of th in family. The prisoners were again brought up on i charge of having stolen, as far back as the 26tbr of March *~ 1862, a blanket and counterpane, from the premises o: 'c William Potter, whose wife took in washing, and had t< ._ make good the losses of these petty robberies — She iden ' tifled the blanket and counterpane ; and the Court sen O tenced the two prisoners to four months hard labour (_ TlißSfl find othor Htnlfin grinds Wflro fnnnd In thnir hnnso.