POLICE OFFICE.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 56, 29 August 1844, Page 3

POLICE OFFICE.

SATURDAY, August 24th, 1844. This morning a man named Stanton preferred a charge of assault agaimst If. M Naughton. From the evidence it appeared that a man named Henry Lastbury, was driving two sheep into town, rom the neighbourhood of Epsom, when M’Naughs ton came up and asked Lastbury, where be was going with the sheep, and who they belonged to ? The answer not being satisfactory to M’Naugbton. ("who was tipsey at the time) some words took place, and on Stanton telling him the sheep were all right and not to interfere with the man, M Naughton knocked him down, and then kicked him.

M‘Naughton, in his defence said he met the man Lastbury driving two sheep, and as be and some of his neighbours bad lost sheep be thought the ones they were driving had been stolen, but when Lastbury told him he was Mr*" Lewis’man, be did not interfere further with him.

The bench told M'Naughton that was no justifi** cation for his assault on Stamon, and as if was proved he, (M'Naugbton) was drunk, the fact was that he did not know what he w.s doing, and continued the bench 1 know what yon are M‘ Naughton, when drunk, as you are an old, acquaintance, M‘Naughton was then fined 10s. for bring drunk. 20s, for the assault, and 7s. 6d. costs, or in default of payment to be confined 14 days. A native lad; named Hona Rei, preferred a charge against B. Keesing, sen., for giving him a blank six penny note in change and then refusing to give the six-pence. The first witness called was John Commons, who said that on Wednesday last I had occasion to go into Brown’s shop where I saw the native, Rei: Brown said to me, “ Commons heie is a lark, some one has given the native a blank note, fill it up and put a good high number tc it.” I then got a pen, and wrote No, 4,446,000 and signed it “ Jerry my Diddler,” I then left the shop and knew no more about it. The note now produced is the one 1 wrote on.

Mr. Thomas Forsaitb, Protector of Aborigines, stated that be knew Hoira Ret, Arid on Wednesday morning tie applied to me at my office, stating that tie had been seofinto town biy Mrs. Clarke, to pur chase a sixpenny pot of black iog, to pay for which he got a note for one shilling ; that fie went in«i. Keesing s, bought 'the sixpenny pot of bl eking, tendered (hem the one shilling uote, and rect-iwo a blank note, which he suppo-ed was a good < ne, in chinge: the note now produced is the note he brought io me. 1 accompanied the nabve to Mi, Keeping's and 1 saw hi* daughter, wh. told me her lather was not at home: slid cam. into the shop and the native said it was from him hr got the note. I stated the object of my visit to the iad and askeddiinr if be remembered the transaction, when he replied yes : and that he gave the native ’he Debenture, but that there was no signature. 1 said I was awar e of that, and asked hint if it was a practice with them to give blank Debentures in change. Keesing’* daughter then said to the boy, it must have been the one yon took last night. I then left the shop and said 1 would return when Mr. Ke.sing would be at home. On Thursday morning I again went to Keesing’s and whilst speaking to M s. Keesing her husband came up ; I told him my business and said I had called on the previous day, when he replied yes, so I heard, and if i bad been at home I would have had some words with you. I told him my object in calling was to know if he was willing to give the boy the sixpence and have no further trouble. I told the defendant his eldest son was present, when he said he was not, as he (defendant) was preseut. I asked him whether he would give tjteboy the sixpence, He replied cartainly not,, but will give you all the trouble I can. 1 then left and laid an information against him.

The defendant cross-examined the witness and asked him a few questions which were not import, ant, with the exception of one, that was, whethei he (Mr. Forsaith) produced the note to the defendant, when Mr, Forsaith replied no, as the object ol -his visit was known.

The asked Mr. Keesing; what he had to say in defence, The defendant siid he did not know with what he was charged. The bench stated the naiure of the charge viz : that he gave the native a piece of paper as sixpence, which paper was no value. Mr. Keesing said he was ignorant of the note being without a signature, and that be was not in the habit of looking whether there was signatures to the notes he received or not. The bencli told defendant, that he thought it a most disgraceful transaction ; he did not consider, undei all the circumstances, there was sufficient to send it to a higher court; he would therefore dismiss the case, and it would be a caution to him in future. MONDAY} August 26rH, 1844. John flopwood was charged widf being drunk. Fined 10s. and cost-, or in default of payment to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 48 hours. Daniel Poole was charged with an assault, Mr. Bar tley appeared for Poole, Mr. J, Smith, Chief Constable, stated that on Saturday night last, 1 with Constables Hughes and Davy, were endeavouring to sreorea man named Hopwuod; whilst so doing I received a blow on the forehead wi h a stone, and on looking round I saw the prisoner, Poole, stoop down and pick u p a stone; I laid hold of him and he let the stone drop. This witness was closely cross-examined by Mr. Bartley, but his evidence was not shaken ; Smith stated that he knew P ole and believed him to be a well conducted m an The Beech stated that it was very clear tha! a griev us , h <1 been committed, but there wa* n 'hi <. i, !e the prisoner and he was therefore dticli .rgeti. Hnnrv Hntier Dowie, and George King, were charged with larceny, by Mr, J, De Moulin* '

The prosecutor, on being sworn, said, rile prisorlfi er * have been in my service; King wasdiifl last March, and Dowie was in my en 1 ploy at the time of the robbery. Oil Sunday, till 18th inst., I left my home about half past onjl o'clock, but prior to my leaving I gave Dowie per/ mission to go Out when be had done his work. JB left in a chest of drawers in my sitting room, a ca box which contained 13 sovereigns, „£TO 13*. silver, £*6s (in £5 Debentures) and £‘l7 (in ft Debentures) making in all £*los 135.; it was a i cash box which was not locked, but the drawer §j which the cash box was, was locked and I had t h key; the pr isoner Dowie, knew the money wag! there, as he had seen me examine it. I saw tliV money just beforeT left nay house and took twe Debentures out, and thdn locked the money up. ’ then went out, telling-Dowie to take care andse cure the house on going out. I returned abouj seven o’clock and could not get in as the dooil| were locked, I tried to get in at my bed room win/ dow but could not as it was fastened. I did no; observe any of the windows open and as I coulc not get in I left. I returned about half past nine and on entering Dowie told me the house bad beef; stript; I found several gentlemen in the house an rbe. Chief Constable ; I looked to my drawer and found tin m all open, and the cash gone but tl empty cash box left behind ; my trunks and box; were all ransacked, [but there was nothing taken lr ( my money. I questioned Dowie, who said he It the house all secure and had been to chapel, but dj His return he found the house iu the state in whi<B I found it. and that he found the office windov opened about three inches. I examined the office window, both inside and out, and it is a difficult thing to open it. There was no fastening to the window: the sill' ot the window is about seven feet s above the ground. There was a table drawn close op tinder the window, on which. I bad a number of papers arranged and no one could enter through tbe window, without disturbing those papers bat they were as I left them; tbe ground under the window was very soft and no onecoold tread on it without leaving a ma k, but there was no maik at : all on the groond, Dowie told me that the kitchen window had been broxen open and a pound I gave : him a day or two previous to buy things for me had also been taken out of his box. Dowie has been ;nr my survice 21 months and I always found him honest.. 1 never concealed my money from him. (told Dowie on the night of the robbery that it was he who took tbe money, and be was confused but mode no direct reply.

Dowie askidgthis witness a few questions bu t icy w- re not uiporant.

Mr. J. Smith, Chief Constable, was then sworn and said that on Sunday week Dowie came to my noose and told me In- masters house had been robbed, i went with him to t!<e house and ill outof the rooms 1 saw a silver hunting watch hanging up. I told Dowie the house had not been robbed, as, if it bad, the watch would have been taken. Dowie took the watch and said do you think they would be such b y fools as to take such a thing as ths ('turning the work* of the watch out on his hand) I asked Dowie how the house had been entered, when he sai l by the office window, which was a few inches open, bill 1 could see no marks either inside or out ; the prisoner said h* found the door locked, as he had leti it, hut the of fice window he found open. From Dowics’ manner I suspected him to be the thief, and I told Mr , De Moulm my suspicion, Dowie took me into a back room and said his box had been opened and a pound taken out : (here was no marks of vioit-nc-on the drawers as if they had been broken open : I asked Dowie if there was any thing taken but in said he did ni t know until his master cama. Dowie cross-examined the last witness as to the time he gave information of the robbery, when witness replied it might have been later than seven o’clock.

Mr, Edward Hardy was called and said, on Sunday week I was standing in the front of my own house, when some one ran violently down the bill towards me, and when he spoke I recognised D.rwie, who appeared agitated and enquired for his nmster. 1 told him Mr. De Moulin was not there, he begged of me to tell him where he was likely to be found, as during his (Dowie's) absence at chapel, the house had been stript. 1 told the prisoner he had better infot m the chief Constable. Shortly alter I went to the house, which was in a state of confusion, and constable Field and the two prisoners were there. 1 examined the house to see what was gone, and having seen there was nothing taken Irom the dressing room, 1 remarked to Dowie that it was not so bad as the clothes were not taken, when he replied they d d not want them having found the money or words to that effeot. I asked him was there much mouey, and his reply was I do not know. (This witness coroborated tbe evidence given by the last witness, regarding the expianttiou given by Dowie, as to the hour the house had been opened : (be height of tbe window sill trom the ground, and there being no marks, either inside or out.) I seen Dowie a few days since and he seemed down hearted, and told me appearances were against him, hut he would be glad to find out who had takent the money. Dowie cross-examine 1 Mr. Hardy, and ask’d him whet! er it was not lattr than half-past seveu to which I e replied it might have been. Mr. C. A. Harris, was sworn and said I know the*prisoner, King, as he was my servant. At about half-past four o’Clock on Sunday week, 1 returned home, when I saw Dowie in my house talking to King, and Dowie returned to my house and left in a few minutes, as I supposed to go to Chapel, King accompanied him. I then left my house after locking it up, Wiien I came home about eleven o’Clock I found King in bed ; he called to me wheu 1 opened the door is that you Mother he did not say is that your sir; I did not know of the robbery on the night it was committed, hut King told me of it the following morning before I went t<> my office. Dowie was at my house on tbe Friday previous to the robbery. Dowie was in the habit of coming to my house to see the pris soner as they appeared intimate ; I am decidedly of opinion I hat King was not absent on the Sunday in question, prior to his leaving without my knowledge to go to the chapel. King has been in my service since May last, and has conducted himself

wa wa. white u muslin froc»., and as pretty a pa., a pair of feet as I ever rermuin/i.seen from China to Kgfiischatka. Rove* where you will, in the galleries ot the Louvre, of Verssilles, m. Baytti’s atalier * or in the hells and museums of our ovva loved isle, I defy you all, my good mas. ters and mistresses, to find’me a prettier pair of feet than were Chose of the Belle Victoria, when sheiplayed with the pebbles and the tides on Ramsgate sandffo * Her mother was her companion, and a venerable man, whose name 1 is graven ou every human heart that loves its specie, and whose undying.fame j is reeo • d in that eternal book where the actions of men are written with the pen of truth, walked by Imr paren s’ side* less gave those counsels', - and* offered that idvice, winch mote were more able to dier'than himself,—lor it was William Wilberforce! Yes, there he was, he, lie mighty moral combatant of that now mushed moral giant slavery | who had fought so nobly and so well for the great mineiple that no man had a right, either teal or imaginary, to the person and beiug of another man J Ah J never shall J for-, get with what irresistible force those line 9 recurred to my mind,, as I gazed on the , diminutive and trembling form of that moral Hercules. '• Were I so tall to reach the pole*. Or grasp the ocean with a“ span, ' I would be measured by myr so'ilj ■*. The mind’s the standard of the man. Yes, the mind, unchained, unfettered, uuenslaved, the mind, immortal as the Being ftom which it sprang, and as mortal as the state of existence to which it is destined,— 4 * the mind’s the standard of the mail,” And what a mind was there before me- Wilberforee was not simply the benevolent, the virtuous, and the pious; but he was a great man, with great mind, occupied about great interests, large aud vast questions, and devoted to the glorious mission of raising his fellow men in all countries and climes, from de*, gration, misery, brutality, and bondage.-**' Frazer's Magazine.

Medicai-.Hints.. Wheu troubled with the head ache pay a visit toa Union workhouse, which will transfer t lre affeotion to. your heart. '"Next read through tire last mimbej'of “ Punch,”and the acho will first be driven to your sides,.and so soon as tho remedy has opeiated, will be expelled altogether* A large appetite is an alarming sjropton; it is a prcctirsoi uf consumption. Takea sheet of whits paper, whereupon set down, in a column, your..rent, land tax, poor’s rate, church rate, water rate, and jour other rates and tax's, not forgetting your income tax. To these add your butcher’s bill, bakei’s, tailor’s bill, and other bilk, particularly any bill you may have accepted, and which is on the point of coming due. Add up and contemplate the sum total wbicli will very probable take away your appetite. Somnolency may be removed by involving yourself in a Chancery suit endangering your whole prop-rly. .So long as your case remains Undecided, you will have little disposition to steep— A dry skin results from obstruction in the pores* If ablution and abstertion fail to relieve you, and ruuninga mile iu a gieat coat prove ineffectual, write an alter piece, and get it played for the first time on some night wheu the theatre is sure to- befall. Go in with tbe public when the doors are open, and wedge yourself in the middle of the pit. Vou will soon have no occasion to complain of & dry skin.— Punch WSSESttOi

ND r ,M.P. - * ,r * esteemed Sir—We, .w liepeal Wardens, Members, and Associates of the Loyal Irish National Re. peal Association, resident in London and its vicinity, beg leave to hail with ineffable delight your presence amongst us, and to tender to you our devoted attachment and our warmest esteem for the noble stand you at all periods have successfully made against tyranny and despotism. “ If the unbounded confidence of an ardent people is consolotary to the patriot in the hour of peril, you cau bodst of its undisputed possession. As long as Irish hearts can throb, national fervour will throw its halo around your name, find it would be difficult at this moment to determine whether those who address you are most actuated by love for your person, admiration of your talents, pride at your uncompromising advocacy of the world’s rights—-or deep and lasting gratitude for the vast services you have rendered your country and mankind. “You have gained an altitude of popularity which nothing but an undeviating rectitude could have so long sustained—a rectitude to which you have adhered even in spite of policy, which prompted you to hurl your anger at the transatlantic slave-owner with as much earnestness as you have denounced * the little tyrant of his fields ’at home. You have stood like a rock against the tempest of opinion. You have buffeted the waves of prejudice, and found a haven in the affections of the people; you have inculcated the pure principles of peaceful agitation, and accomplished local revolutions without crime or blood. The dazzling .achievements of the warrior are clouded by the oppression of which his sword is too frequeutly the sanguinary instrument ; but the moral weapons with which you have fought the battles of freedom, while they secure amidst triumph, the most solid advantages to pos. terity, will brighten the page of history to the remotest period of time. “ The daily increasing sympathy which manifests itself in England is a proof of the estimation in which your virtues are held by the good and wise of the kings dom, and which no sentence of a corrupt tribunal can ever destroy. Bearing the Standard of your country in the front of the glorious struggle in which the hopes of the millions who surround you are concentrated, yon are viewed by the discerning portion of the universal world as a self-sacrificed martyr, ♦ looking in thraldom more at large than those who set you in it.’ May you continue to retain that estimation; and ere it shall please Almighty God to call you from this life, may you behold the consummation of your wishes in the restoration of that Parliament which alone can establish the prosperity and independence of Green Ireland, and give happiness and employment to her sober, industrious, but now, alas ! destitute millions.”

;t.ave Trade Abolition.— Amongst 3W leading articles in the Paris jourv if Friday, which appear to us to be hy of notice, is one in the Globe, on neans of putting an end to the slave t . Our contemporary says “ The ish Associations, which have for the 1 lalf century imposed on the Govern- ' of their* country the policy hitherto , /ed relative to slave colonies, have b t perceived that ail their efforts, and ie money expended, to prevent the ? v trade, have been almost useless, the ~,jer of negroes imported io Brazil or . Spanish colonies not having sensibly ■' rished. The English journals anice that the Admiralty is about to olete the cruising fosce on the coast of ta by a number of steamers, and they ” to hope for excellent results from ' measure. We are surprised that such ce of intelligence should appear in ,i English journals as know what con • - navigation ; for it is easy to foresee he use of steamers for a cruising force l ' prepare new deceptions for the aboliA st society of London. It is not neary to be very well acquainted with al affairs to comprehend that a steai* obliged to burn coals constantly to aain in certain latitudes, cannot cruise

ffore a harbour or blockade it, unless by xpending incalculable quantities of fuel in petty evolutions. A steamer when once her boilers are heated, cannot remain stationary, and cannot therefore be employed in the patient and inactive duty of cruising, where it may have to remain for months together on the look-out in the bays on the coast of Africa, close to the tribes which carry on the slave-trade. A stea= mer is only good in a chase after a sailing vessel ; but a slaver with a few hours start and a favourable wind, would have greater chances of getting off, on account of the uncertainty in which the cruiser would remain as to the route the other had taken. We believe that the abolition associations are greatly mistaken if they fancy the slave trade can be put down by means of cruisers and the right of search. They only aggravate the fate of the negroes, and render the slave trade cruel. We are of opinion that they will not succeed any better in preventing the introduction of negroes into countries like Brazil or the Spanish colonies, where the fault has been committed of importing males in an immense majority, and where the race not being renewed by propagation, would quickly disappear altogether, if not repeats edly renewed. Until a population, born, and brought up on the spot, shall exist in the Spanish colonies and Brazil, those countries cannot, without certain and speedy ruin, do without the slave trade. The French colonies have precisely arrived at the important puint of possessing a working population of negro origin, born on the spot, already somewhat reconciled to European manners, to religion, and to labour, and, consequently, far superior to those African tribes from which they descend. Therefore, the French colonies are in no way interested in the maintenance of the slave trade, for they can do without fresh negroes. The only serious and rea.. sonable course in our'opinion to be adopted, would be to aim at producing for the blacks introduced into America, moral and material guarantees of real efficiency, to replace the present slave trade, which is, in fact, a traffic, by an intelligent, hu mane, and superintended emigration of uegroes families ; for if there exist a moral and civilizing work, it is, in our opinion, that which would bring to the fertile lands of America the unemployed tribes of Africa, savages in the midst of civilization, and idolators in the midst of Christianity. We acknowledge very frankly that we do not comprehend the efforts that ate made to maintain Africa in her fetishism, and her state of barbarism. In fact, to encircle Africa with a line cruisers, what is it but to isolate her and deliver her up to herself? There are two ways of civilizing the blacks, either by carrying Christi' anitv into the midst of them, or carry iug them into the midst of Christianity. Both are equally rational; but we think that the latter is the most easy of execution, the only one capable of being executed.” Water. —We have heard that eight shillings were offered for a load of water, during the late stoppage of the supply on account of the almost impassable state of the road, leading from the tanks. Many of the inhabitants were without water for two days, and had to depend entirely upon the kindness of their neighbours.—Zawnceston Examiner .