PETERSFIELD.

Agent—MR. G. DUPLOCK

     PETTY SESSIONS—Tuesday.—Present: Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., and J. Waddington, Esq.

     Edward Fly and Sarah Fly, brother and sister, were brought up in custody charged with stealing, in the parish of Buriton, on Monday the 1st of April, a quantity of chips, the property of George Legg.—Prosecutor and another man, named Cook, had been employed cutting wood at Coultersdean and had there a heap of chips, part of which were their own perquisites and the rest they had purchased. On the day in question prisoners went and filled a couple of sacks with these chips and were bringing them away when they were met by the prosecutor’s wife and Mrs. Cook, who had been watching them.—The value of the chips was put at 6d., and as prisoners had been locked up for eight days, the magistrates ordered them to be detained in court for one hour and then discharged.

     Charlotte Searle pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing, on Wednesday, the 3rd of April, at Froxfield, sundry articles belonging to her master, John Mecklin.—Prosecutor had taken prisoner into his service about a month ago from the Petersfield Union. On the 3rd inst. he went from home, leaving her in charge of the house, and on his return the next day she was gone, and he then missed a counterpane, a mattress tick, a sheet, and several other things, the value of which he put at 4s. 6d.—Luke Merritt deposed: I am a general dealer living at Eastmeon. On the 3rd of April I was at Froxfield. I went to Mecklin’s, and saw prisoner sitting on a bundle outside of the door; she said she had got a bundle of rags which Mr. Mecklin’s son had tied up before going to Petersfield with a load of goods, and had directed her to sell, and that the price she was to ask for them was 1s. 3d. He weighed the bundle, and gave her the money. On the same evening P.C. Rodaway came to him, and he gave the bundle up to him just as he had received it from the prisoner.—Noah Mecklin deposed that he lived with his father at Froxfield. He remembered the 3rd of April; he did not on that day tie up a bundle of rags and direct the prisoner to sell them. He had not given her authority to sell anything. She had not handed him any money she had received.—Sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour.

     This was a special session for the transfer of public-house licenses.

  • The ‟Anchor” and the ‟Green Dragon,” at Liphook, were both transferred from James Clark to William Gillmore Harrison.
  • The ‟Cricketers,” at Steep, was transferred from Alfred Pocock to henry Ifould.
  • The ‟George,” at Petersfield, from Thomas Fanstone, to George Terry.

     The annual accounts of the Inspectors for the town of Petersfield under the Lighting Act were verified and passed.

     Mr. John Allam, of East Tisted, applied for an order to recover possession of a house at Priorsdeane, in the occupation of John Clarke. Defendant did not appear. The tenancy and the usual notices having been duly proved, an order as made for possession to be given in twenty-one days.

     Edward Atkins, of Buriton, as convicted of stealing turnip greens from a field, and adjudged to pay 12s. including costs, or fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour.