MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, 30 December 1876, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday, December 30. (Before Gr. L. Lee, Esq, and Dr Deamer, J.P.’s.) Drunk and Disorderly, —An inebriate who appeared for the first time, was fined 5s and Is cab-hire. John Miller for being drunk, using obscene language and resisting the arresting constable, was fined 10s. Illegally on Premises. —Peter Cook, James Connor, and Mary Holmes were arrested for being found illegally in the garden of Mr John Preece, Colombo street north, at one o’clock in the morning. Mr Preeco, agent for the property called, stated that the accused had no right to be on the premises. Evidence was given that the prisoner Cook had been convicted at Ashburton for vagrancy and the woman, Holmes, had also been convicted. Cook and Holmes were sentenced to two monts imprisonment with hard labor. As Connor had not been before the Court previously, but was suffering from the effects of drink, he was remanded to Lyttelton for a week, Mary Ann Cook, charged with having been illegally on the premises of Mr J. Hermann, Durham street North, at halfpast one in the morning, was fined 10s. Robert Henry, arrested for being illegally on the premises of Mr W, 0. Webb, Bush Inn, Riccarton, at two o’clock in the morning, was sentenced to forty-eight hours’ im prisonment. Disobeying an Order.— Daniel Herlihy was charged, on warrant, with disobeying an order of the Oxford Court to contribute 10s. per week towards the support of his family. Accused had been arrested at Ashburton, and, on the application of Inspector Buckley, was remanded, to be brought up before the Kaiapoi Bench on the Ist of January.