PETERSFIELD.
COUNTY BENCH.—TUESDAY.—Before the Hon. J. J. Carnegie, chairman, Sir W. W. Knighton, Bart., J. B. Carter, Esq., M.P., Major Briggs, and J. Waddington, Esq.
TWO OF A TRADE.—William Hill was summoned for assaulting John Longhurst.—Mr. H. Ford, of Portsea, appeared for the defendant.—The parties live at Liss, and are rival innkeepers, between whom there has existed for some years past a good deal of hostility and ill feeling. Complainant was returning on foot from Petersfield, Heath fair on the afternoon of Saturday, the 6th inst., when he met defendant near Bowyer’s =gate. Defendant was riding in his cart, and as he passed complainant he, as one of the witnesses expressed it, ‟wiped him across the face with his whip.”—Mr. Ford admitted the assault, but said that the defendant had been provoked past all endurance by repeated and systematic attacks made upon his reputation by complainant, more especially in reference to his private and domestic affairs.—The magistrates fined defendant 3s. 6d, with costs, 16s. 6d., the chairman remarking that if any further complaint came before them from either party they would bind them both over to keep the peace.—Mr. Ford said he wished to make an application to that effect at once on behalf of his client, and thereupon proceeded to prepare an information and complaint, to which defendant was duly sworn, and upon which complainant was called upon to enter into his own recognizance in the sum of £20 to keep the peace for twelve months.
ORDER OF EJECTMENT.—Mary Ann Pocock, of Dunhill, in the parish of Steep, (for whom Mr. Minty appeared) applied for an order to recover possession of a tenement and blacksmith’s shop, in the occupation of her son, Francis Pocock.—Order made to quit in twenty-one days.
TRESPASS.—Alfred Eade was summoned but did not appear charged with trespassing in search of game, in the parish of Blendworth, on Tuesday, the 16th inst.—The case was clearly proved by Albert Booker, gamekeeper to Sir J. C. Jervoise, and this being the third conviction, defendant was fined £2, with 9s. 6d costs, or in default two months’ hard labour.