POLICE COURT.-Friday.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 125, 3 June 1870, Page 3

POLICE COURT.-Friday.

(Before Thomas Ritchie, Esq., and T. B. Kenderdine, Esq., M.D., J.P.'s.) DRUNKENNESS. Jessie Bell was fined ss. and costs, or to be imprisoned 24 hours with*- hard labor ; and Alice Murphy, for a second offence, was Sued 10s. and costs, or to be imprisoned for 48 hours •with hard labour. MINING XIABItITY/ ACT. Two charges of breaches of the above Act were laid against G-. F. Armstrong and Michael Hannaferd, and were adjourned by consent of counsel, the former till Monday, and the latter till Friday next.

BREACH OF THE rASSENGER ACT. James Carolan, Henry GHttos, and Thomas Binness, were charged with a breach of the above Act, in having stowed themselves away on board the Wonga Wonga, on her passage from Sydney, without having procured passage tickets for the voyage, James Carolan pleaded guilty. Matthew Isaac Robinson, deposed : I am purser on board'the Wonga Wonga. Discovered defendants on board for the first time yesterday, when collecting tickets from passenger*. They were asked for their tickets. They had none ; and their names are not on the passenger Hat. They were found in the intermediate. They had been concealed till we had gone to sea. Court adjourned for half an hour to procure the attendance of the steward of the Wonga Wonga. On the Court resuming, George Mill deposed : I am chief steward on board the Wonga Wonga. Saw the three defendants on board. I spoke to two of them. I warned them not to come in the ship unless they were articled. After the ship had left Sydney I saw them in the forepart of the ship. The chief officer, in my presence, asked them for their tickets. To defendant Binness : I said to you that on arrival at Auckland, if there were enough passengers, I would put you on wages. To Court: In Sydney, before the vessel sailed, I distinctly told him to leave the ship. Never saw you working on the passase, and the captain told me not to let you work. To Qittos (defendant) : Did not see you working. Saw you drunk once or twice. The defendants were each fined £2, or to be imprisoned for one month. INDECENT EXPOSURE. Henry Webb, on remand, appeared charged with a breach of the Vagrant Act, in having indecently exposed himself on Saturday last. Detective Ternahan deposed : I know the prisoner, whom I arrested on Wednesday afternoon, off Symonds-street, for this offence. Prisoner said it was quite a mistake ; but he was identified at the police ■tatibn by several persons as having so exposed himself. Two little girls of about ten years old gave evidence on the subject, and the Bench deferred decision till after hearing of the subsequent charges. The same defendant was charged with a similar offence on Monday last. One of the little girls and her nurae deposed to the faots of the case.

For the defence, Augustus Koch deposed that he had known defendant at Hawke's Bay for eleven years, and he had borne an excellent character, and especially on grounds of morality ; in fact, by " over morality," so to say, he hal pot into trouble in Hawke's Bay by hii endeavours to prevent persona from indecently exposing themselves by bathing in the sea below his residence there. The defendant addressed the Court with ability, and considerable powers of eloquence, and the Bench decided to remand the case till Monday, on which day the decision also on the previous case will be given. Bail extended. The Court then rose.