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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 533, 18 October 1871, Page 2

Ij Ui I,<l i{ /i-iJjU.L.'i.-.L •-.' , >y —n ■••■ ■:•--■<■■ ' y American Citujacyp-g —The popular name?' .assigned. |q popular; ehurches, says a New York ■Milh ai' e very curious. There is an accuracy ( and jv^it abiiyt,;iv,illat;in!ikes even the victims ljiugh.' Ply mouth Church la called simply " Beecher's " Dr. Storr's Church, owing to elm peculiar form of ingi.sbeeplu, is known as !W t'jOhjUrcl^pf 4.l\ej.J3j>ly Oorncob.V .-:Mr.' Tmimailgra Tabernacle $a i-tfriSedthe "Church df'Elia Hippodrome." On. at' the old school chttvohes, Bt'ffi[i_t c^QUDjßhe, w known as tjio " Old Filrhaoe. A'l|up,ti.st church . which iifiSßek a speciality offtheoWlinftnce, announoingjti every Bundayf,i»'knownas tho "Church of thb llolj_._Batli,,|._,A...Unitarian church, a low Building, with its diff rent parts drawn .gut ,ltke a telescope, is.e«il,.d ■the-" Church of tlie Holy^lTjtKrtie^/. Dj-l .Bellows' Church,' built of alternate la_y«£f of yed -and white, is knowp a-s the " fcfuu'r'fj of the Holy Zebra." To raise funds to .paj ,<*£. & church debt one of our religious.societigslheld a fair,, at whichdancing was made piiininent. The sooiety Wtts 'immediately (jhrflcened tlaj " Church of Bt. Titus." , . rl' l .HrM-HO BfJOOW/ .«■' ,"■.••..-■■■ .- ,: LiY f ivrtiod. ad: uhq.ll* -..- ~, ha

POLICE COURT.-Wednesday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., E.M.] Drunkenness. —Three persons were punished in the usual manner for this offence.

Assault.—John W. Smith was charged with violently assaulting Captain Parquhar on board the Koyal Alfred, on the 17th in 3 t,-__! Mr. Joy appeared for defendant, and urged that the offence was only committed while defendant was under the influence of liquor • also, that the assault was a trivial one, and prosecutor wa3 unwilling to pr.s^for a heavy penaity.—Defendant received a . , /re caution and was ordered to pay a fine<%f 40 8- an j costs, or be imprisoned fourteen days. Breaches op Municipal Cobpobatioi. Act.—John Moon, for having a horse tethered in a public place, was fined 10s.'and costs.— William Ellis, for allowing a goat to be* at large in the public streets, was fined in a simi-ar amount. 7..,^-i~~-

Municipal Police AcT.-^THomas Freeman, for being away from his-vehicle,-was fined 40s. and costs.—L. "Vv\ Eaton 'was charged ■ with placing goods on'the public footpath,'so: as to cause an obstruction.— Defendant explained that he had only placed a few bags of potatoes outside his store until a dray returned to remove them.—As the case appoared trivial, the Bench fined him ss. with costs.

Bbeach op Impounding Act.—Edward Boucher was fined 20s. and costs, for/allowing a cow to stray on the Kyber Pa*s fioad.

Embezzlement.—Edward Hall appeared on remand, to answer a charge preferred against him by Henry Jackson, for having failed to account for £3 3s 61 and 9s 8d which, he had received on prosecutor's aceoant. Mr. Joy appeared on behalf of the prisoner, and Inspector Brobam conducted tie prosecution.— Henry; Jackson deposed-that prisoner was in his employ while carrying on business as a burcher1 on the new worth' Road. Up to the 9th instant his-duties were to take out meat, take .oyders, and.receive money..: On tho 9th he was sent to the Whau in tkeusual course of his work. On his retumbe wag asked if he bacF received any moneyi, He said no, but that Mrs." Owen would pay next day if wituesß would go. out; - On.tfae,same day he was sent to Newmarket and, did not return until tbe 12th. He then' said h»-wSg very sorry for what he bad done, ahd:would "work until he had made it up. Witness .then told him that'he would endeavour to withdraw the information he had laid for the embezzle* ment of the two sums of money.—Clara A. Ovven deposed that on the. 9th, inst. she" paid prisoner £3 3s. 6d., for which he gave a receipt.—Eleanor Ilogers, being sworn, deposed that ion the Batne .day ihel paid prisoner nine shillings, and obtained a receipt from him in Jackson's name.—Detective Ji-ffery deposed that when he arrested tk& pr.soner he admitted that he aed another had beeu drinking,. and had «pent the meney.-— .lis Worship coneMered jtlio evidence conclusive, and committed Hail for tribfiat the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. ' f —Puisjuer reserved his defence.' ' :