POLICE COURT.—Friday.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 113, 20 May 1870, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Friday.

(Before J. O'Neill, Esq., andT. Ritchie, Esq., J.P.s) DBITNKBNNESS. Carl Williams and William Laverty, charged with this offence, were each fined ss. and costs, or to be imprisoned for 24 hours with hard labour., THREATENING LANGUAGE. Benjamin Arch was charged by Gertrude Granger, with using towards her, on the 16th May, threatening language, to wit, that he would worry her life out and never leave her alone. Mr. Wilson for complainant; Mr. Joy for defence. Gertrude Granger, deposed : I am afraid defendant will do me some great bodily harm. To Mr. Joy : Defendant has been living near me for five years; he is very abusive. Never laid an information against him before; he came to the gate enquiring about a cat, I ran into my house ; told him I had no cat of his. He came again on same subject; he said there is no use in your running, I "will worry your live out and never leave you alone ; I ran away out by the back of the house to escape ; we have not been visiting ; he used oaths to me and called me bad names ; never brought oat pistols to shoot at children ; never threatened to kill Billy Blank with an axe. Told the defendant I would throw dirty water over him. Re-examined by Mr. Wilson: Saw the defendant coming out of my stable. Pound a large wound in the horse's neck, about six inches long. To the Bench : He called me a ——, and swore violently. For the defence, Mary Ann Webster deposed : I know the complainant, and reside in her neighbourhood. Have known her for three or four years ; she is a very violent woman, and is always pelting the fowls and animals of her neighbours. The defendant has the very best of characters ; never know of his being out of temper. I knew that the cat and kitten were at complainant's place, and I told defendant's wife so ; so also did Mrs. Grainger.

Defendant was ordered to give security in his personal bond of £25, to keep the peace for six months. Defendant to pay also costs of Court.

The Court then rose.

A lady describing an ill-tempered man, said " He sever smiles but he seems ashamed of it. "

Young women should set good examples for the young men arc always following tliein. The New York papers are great in getting up long accounts of ordinary events. The following, cut from an. account of a suicide shows how they do it : - "The horror of this tale, will for a brief moment, light np :n men's eyes the vast expanse of social disease and disquiet, and iujuslice, and seething dim rage which heaves around and beneath our splendid modern civilisation, even as a lightning flash reveals, in the blackness of midnight,the great, wastes of some storm shaken sea."

Mobhonism. —A correspondent thus describes a Mormon missionary meeting held in Karori on Friday evening last,at which he was present:—" In a room nine or ten feet square, iv a private house, were squeezed as many bodies as could be jammed in inconveniently. The congregation was of both sexes, but all adults. MaDy of the women, and some of the males, seemed to be of the impressionable order that are easily moved by every fresh vagary in faith, and they hung with attention on the words of the speaker. The " Saint" himself is a plain middle-aged man, has nothing of the enthusiast about him, is not remarkable for intellect, but seems a serious self-possessed man of sufficient mental calibre to be able to hold his own with his rude interlocutors. But the grand thing of the evening was the incense that was offered up to the new prophet. I could not stand in it and live for ten minutes —whether from want of faith or not I cannot say—but Elder Beauchamp and some of his hearers seemed rather to enjoy the balmy air. I have heard of the New York reporter who counted 177 separate and distinct smells, but verily, all put together would not equal the aggregation of nastiness that permeated the atmosphere of that meeting house. To remain inside was certain death by suffocation, asphyxia, or some other equally horrible and unpronounceable death ; and to venture outside was to run the gauntlet of a fusillade of ovarous stinkpots that splashed and squashed in irregular volleys on the outside of the house. However, T did not take much time to consider whether to risk the blockade of rotten eggs or take certain death at the feet of the prophet. Of course I preferred the former, and escaped without a spatter, but I lost the discourse." Wellington Independent. A New Panacea.—The Daily News remarks that Sir Frederick Pollock appears to have discovered a new remedy for some of the infirmities of old age. The facts have beea forwarded to the practitioner by the President of the College of Physicians. Sir Frederick is now 86 years of age, and to the great wonder and joy of his friends, his strength scarcely in any way fails him. Still, some years ago he suffered from the indefinable nervous malaise which is incident to old age, and which sometimes makes itself known in painful spasms more or less connected with the digestive system. He tried the best rectified ether, which he inhaled from an ordinary bottle applied to one nostril. The {safety of the experiment to some extent depends on the inhalation through only one nostril. A few whiffs taken in this way removed spasm and pain, and induced a general tranquility of the nervous system. Sir Frederick goes on with the inhalations every day, and enjoys in consequence magnificent health. The quantity of ether which he uses ia variable ; sometimes it amounts to several ounces a day ; but how much of it escapes and how much of it is absorbed into the system it would be difficult to estimate.

Fob the following announcement, a recently-established London weekly paper (called Latest ISews) is responsible :— " Those of our readers who are not ia the secrets of the palace will certainly be startled to hear that the cause of frequent Tisits of the Prince of AugustenburgSonderburg to Windsor, will in a few weeks be explained to her Majesty's loyal subjects, in a manner calculated to cause them th« highest gratification, and to withdraw our gracious Queen from the privacy in which she has spent her widowhood." The story certainly requires much corroboration to make it the east credible.

The following letter, signed by a number of residents at Levuka, Fiji, was sent to a Mr. Leefe at Nananu, and by him sent to the Fiji Times, from which we extract:—" Sir,—We beg to inform you a statement is current in this port to the effect that Findlay and John M'Liver, master and supercargo respectively of the British vessel William and Julia, did, some days ago, while at one of your plantations, sell two women, brought by them from the Gilbert Archipelago; it was reported also the men named had on board her at. Levuka t^o other women whom they kept secreted in the hold. Yesterday, the British Consul, attended by several gentlemen, boarded the vessel and wished to interrogate the master. M'Liver refused ia a most insolent manner to produce any paper, and further stated he did not know his own nationality, and he did not sail under any flag. Two women were found ia the hold, and it was ascertained beyond doubt that two more had been disposed of at your place. We are, therefore, determined to support consular authority in this matter, and preserre our own interests in the country, by putting an end to any nefarious practices, such as those of which McLiver iJrothers are now charged, and which by their conduct here appear to bo well founded. On the part of, and in the name of the European residents in Fiji, we call upon you, as the proprietor of the plantation where this act is said to liave occurred, to furnish those explanations the subject demands. T4mt no delay may ensue, we have sent the boat Tyro, and we would impress upon you the necessity of forwarding to this port the women and the person who is said to have received them, where they can be questioned by her Majesty's Consul."

The Sydney Morning Herald says, io reference to Madame Anna Bishop:— " This talented songstress was married to Mr. Schultz. an American, of quiet gentlemanly address. It is well known that they lived on the best terms here, and it can therefore scarcely be credited that there is the least foundation for the following paragraph, which appears in the San tt-ancisco Bulletin of January 15: — " Madame Anna Bishop, charging her husband with infidelity, has asked the New York Courts-fora divorce.'"