PETERSFIELD
COUNTY BENCH.—Tuesday.—Before the Hon. J. J. Carnegie, J. Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P., and J. Waddington, Esq.
Mr. Longcroft, of Havant, applied on behalf of the Catherington Union for an order for the removal of Jemima Quinnell and her four children from the parish of Blendworth, in the said Union, to the parish of Westbourne, in the Westbourne Union.—The order was made.
George Port was charged with removing a cow and calf from Petersfield market on the 10th inst. without a pass.—Defendant, who is in the employ of Mr. Thomas Amey, who purchased the cow and calf of Mr. Bartholomew, of Bramshot, admitted that the animals were removed without a pass.—He was fined 10s., and 13s. costs.
Frederick Port was convicted of driving a cow and calf on the road from Petersfield to Portsmouth between sunset and sunrise on the same day, and he was fined 10s., and 11s. 6d. costs.
The Chairman stated that in all future cases the conditions on which the market had been re-opened would be rigidly enforced, and the full penalty of £20 inflicted.
Peter Fienzi, an Italian vagabond, charged with stealing, in the parish of Clanfield on Wednesday, the 17th inst., two fowls, value 5s., the property of Mr. Henry George Saxby, was committed for trial at the Sessions.
John Harrison was summoned for assaulting Samuel Thomas Woodbourne, of Liss.—Defendant applied for an adjournment on the ground that he only received the summons on the previous evening, and had not had time to prepare his defence and summon his witnesses.—The magistrates acceded to the application on defendant paying the costs of the day, 9s., and they also bound both parties in their own recognisances of £50 to keep the peace for 14 days.
William Paine, a bricklayer, and William Gordon, a labourer, charged with poaching on the Idsworth estate, were remanded till Tuesday next.