PETERSFIELD
Agent—MR. G. DUPLOCK
PETTY SESSIONS—On Tuesday, before the Hon. J. J. Carnegie (chairman) and J. Waddington, Esq.
Samuel Rook, jun. was charged with keeping his house open after hours.—P.C. Johnson deposed that on the 23rd of November last, about twenty minutes to twelve at night, he went to the Fountain Inn, at Rowland's=castle, which is kept by the defendant, and there saw three men raffling for a bottle of gin in the landlord's presence.—The defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 1l. and 11s. 6d. costs, which he paid.—The Chairman, in passing sentence, remarked that he hoped this case would act as a warning to alehouse keepers at this season.
John Lillywhite was charged, under the Criminal Justices’ Act, with stealing, on the 22nd of November last, at Rowland's Castle, a ham and two choppers of bacon, the property of Daniel Hobbs.—The evidence being insufficient to put the prisoner on his trial, the magistrates dismissed the case.
The license of the Drum, at Petersfield, was transferred from John Carter to James Stevens.