RESIDENT MAGISTRAUE'S COURT.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1409, 4 June 1884, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRAUE'S COURT.

Tuesday, Jpn;r 3rd, 1884. i| (Before Qao. Wisb Esq, J. 8.) f . ■ John Sweetman w«i charged fey th» police with being an idle an disorderly person. j Defendant denied the charge. < j The following evidence -was called : - Raymond Fitzmaurice : I am manager of the Keep-it- Dafb Company, and have i resided in Black's Point for thirteen : years ; have known defendant for ton , years ; he has worked a fortnight during I the last six months ; he may have done a ; i few odd jobs in the interval, but the'inost i of his time is spent knocking about the ' ! public houses ; on Sunday last he got h««ld of Mrs Ramsay's boy, but whether he was beating the boy or not Ido not know. I i heard screams and ran out and saw de- j j fendant holding the boy ; defendant iB a nuisance fcrf everybody when drunk. ■] J. C. Craig*: I. am an hotelkeeper at j ■ "Black's Potot ; for the last two or three j I months defendant has been doing odd i ! jobs and most of his time has been drink- ■ I ing ; when sober he is a well-behaved and industrious man, he goea for three «»r six months without drinking and then busts i out. ♦ ; '" > !>,*'•?. • • -•>•" •■•■■■*'•• v -' ' An'rfrrfwfJCßark :*I waar storfemen'ior the | late 'Mr RajlH*<y> jrtfefendant started d'thrtc-' ing aboutfthe" thiWof Mr Ramsay's death and has been at it' pretty well ever since ; he is right enough when sober. Defendant admitted that he had been a • sort of " half and half" for the last month ] or so, but he intended to " put the peg in " for the next six months. The boy kicked him and for that offence he smacked him. He hoped the Bench would let him off. His Worship discharged the defendant with a caution. Fotjl Chimney. Walter Williams was charged by the ; Police with having permitted the chimney of hia hotel to catch fire, on the morning I of Sunday last. Defendant, was fined in the sum of 5/- --! and costs. . | ! The Court then adjourned.