PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Mr. G. DUPLOCK
PETTY SESSIONS.—Tuesday.—present Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., and Major Briggs.
— The Rev. E. A. Ferryman, of Privett, and a boy in his employ, named Charles Baker, appeared to a summons charging them with removing a cow along the highway without a license, on Monday, May 27th. P.C. Charles Abrahams deposed that he met the boy Baker on the Stroud, about twelve o’clock, driving a cow. Baker stated, in reply to questions from Abrahams, that the cow belonged to Mr. Ferryman, of Privett, that he was driving it to the railway station at Petersfield, that he had no license, but his master had given the license to Curtis, who was gone to Mr. Waddington’s to get it signed. The policeman went on towards Mr. Waddington’s and met Curtis, who showed him the license duly signed by that gentleman, but he told him it was then too late, as the license should have been in the possession of the person in charge of the cow at the time he met her in the road. Mr. Ferryman explained to the magistrates that he had applied to Mr. Waddington for a license, and the latter told him that he must first obtain the signature of two farmers in his neighbourhood and he would then sign it. Accordingly he (Mr. F.) got two of his neighbours to sign the document and then sent his man (Curtis) and the boy (Baker) with the cow to the railway at Petersfield, directing the former to call at Mr. Waddington’s on his way and get his signature to the license, which he did, but having to go a short distance out of his way to do so, the policeman happened to meet the boy with the cow before Curtis returned. As the cow had been driven from Privett to Langrish before the license was signed, the magistrates had no alternative but to convict. Fined 1s., costs 10s. 6d.
— James Ifould, a cowman in the employ of Mr. Thomas Waller, of Steep, pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelly beating a cow on Sunday, June 9. It appeared from the evidence that the cow was an ill-tempered animal, and required to have her legs strapped while being milked, and on the occasion in question, defendant had punished her with extreme violence by striking her with a stick till she fell to the ground under his blows. Fined 1l., costs 12s.
— A lighting rate for the parish of Petersfield was signed, 7½d. in the pound on houses, 2½d. on land, and 5½d. on cottages.