POLICE COURT.—Thursday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 422, 18 May 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Thursday.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., E.M.) Drunkenness.—Michal Tierney and Mary Scanlan were each fined 5s and costs, and Peter Stone 10s and costs, with the usual alternative. Stealing from a. Dwelling.—W. Mantel was charged with feloniously stealing from the dwelling of W. Meatyard, at Kohiinarama, on or about the 16th May, one £10 and one £5 note. —Application was made for a remand by Mr. Brougham till Saturday. The Bench refused to remand till Saturday, ou the grounds that that day is required for i making up books and accounts in connection with the Court, and on that account should be a dies turn. Remanded till Monday ; bail allowed in two sureties of £50 each. Slaughterhouse Act. —George Mapstone was charged with having slaughtered a pig on the 12th of May, at Newton. Pleaded guilty, and, with a severe reprimand, was ■ lined 20s. and costs. Destitute Persons Beiief Ordinance. — J. W- Harrison was charged with having deserted his wife, Sarah Harrison. Defendant stated that he had tried his utmost to induce his wife to come down to live witli him at the Thames, and his wife in reply stated that he had another woman living with him.—The case was remanded till the following day, in order to give opportunity for enquiry. I / —

Lines on the approach of winter, by a washerwoman :— Ob, cramp and spazzum ! I often lias 'urn, Nooralgy, too, and tic, ■ ." And roornattics in style— Which I rubs in ile With op-pod-delly-dick! Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe says a woman belonging to the upper classes who undertakes to get wealthy by honest exertion and independent industry, Joses caste, and is condemned by a thousand voices as an oddity and a deranged person. A young woman at Jeffersonville, Ind., while out walking with a young man who .had been loving her unwiselji but too numerously, met a minister, ■when she turned to the young man, pulled a revolver and gave him his choice to wed her right there or be perforated, adding that if the minister refused to perform the ceremony she woulc shoot him. The nuptial was tied. No cards When you find a man who iz very solisitui about the welfare ov everybody, yu kan safely put him down az one who iz hunting for ! misfortune. They make shirts by lightning now. Ai electric battery applied, to a sewing-machin drives the needle with astonishing rapiditj and at little expense. A man who has a strong mind can bear t be insulted, can bear offences, because he i strong. The weak mind snaps and snarls a a little ; the strong mind bears it like a rod , and it moves not, though, a. thousand breaker ■ dash upon it and cast their pitiful malice i the spray upon its auamiit. Napoleon saic .. "He who can control himself, is greater tha he who controls armies." Parents will fin :• their greatest achievements in controllic i themselves—the next in teaching their childre i self-control. Would the philosophers who in counc 1 solemnly defined a human being to be " a tw< , legged animal without feathers," maintai . I their definition if they saw the young ladie3 i i j full feather now-a-days ? t j In Troy (N. V.) liquor is allowed to be so' 5 . only to the travelling public. The citizei 5 I are to be seen every morming, carpet-bag i ' hand, seeking something to hold in the - mouths.