POLICE COURT.—Friday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 579, 17 November 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Friday.

[Before W. ID. Thomas and Thomas Macffarlane, Esquires, Justices.]

DItTTNKBNKBSS.—Four persons were punished in the usual manner for this offence. -—•Anne Hamilton, for a third offence, was sent to gaol for seven days, with a caution that if she appealed again she would bo dealt with under the Vagrant Act. • •

Bhuacu of Municipal Cobporatiox Act. —Edward Byrne was accused of omitting to keep a suilicient light burning on materials deposited in Queen .street on the liight of the 11th instant. —lie said he had been employed for the last twelvo months in laying down fliigstonos, and never know that ho had to place a, light over the excavations. —The Bench read the claim of the Act, which imposed a penalty not exceeding £10, on anyone neglecting to show the requisite light, and fined defendant 20s. and costs.

Fukiops Riding.—William Cook, a little boy, ly-fis charged with furiously riding a horse, in Grey-street.—On tho suggestion of Mr. Inspector Broham, who explained the circuuisiuiices, and said the boy and his parents wero in very poor oircumstances, tho lad was discharged ; the Bench, however, expressing their determination of inflicting tho full penalty in any similar case in future. Si HAY Cattlk. —Edward Hall was fined 10s and coats, for allowing his horse to stray on the Xi her Pass Road.

Bkeaou of Slauoutkb-house Aot, 1866. — Alfred JL'rilohard was charged with slaughtering lambs in a place within a " slaughterhouse district," not being a private or public slaughter-huus*.--Mr. Joy appeared for defendant, and pleaded guilty, at the same time urging that he was quite unaware he was within tho boundary, and the place where the offence was committed was at tho extreme end of the district.—Constable Clarke a deposition went to show that although h e

had had reason to believe that tho animals had been slaughtered in_.Newton, on further enquiry he found'that they had been killed on the North Road some distance away, —William Edgecombe testified to the lambs having been killed on his property, more th n three miles out* of the city. —Fined £1 and costs.

AsS-.OCT.-rWilliam Fox. was charged by Robert H-mnaford, under the provisions of the Merehint Shipping act, with assaulting him on board the ship Alice, by'-trikimj him on the head with a marline-spike.—Robert Ilannafor •', second mate, d-.-serij.ed..the etreumstances of the afsault.—John C'outts, chief officer of the same vessel, corroborated the evidence given by the second mate.—The Court was then adj tinned until two o'clock, in order that defendant might obtain the attendance of witnesses.

On the Court, resuming, the defendant called- Henry Ttosc, whose testimony' went to show that; complainant had endeavoured to haul the defendant, over tho bulwarks from the heel of the bowsprit, and a tuzzle ensued, during wnich complainant and defendant were rolling ou the forecastle. Witness could not say whether or not defendant had used r. marline - spike against the complaiuant.—John Winters, A.B, gave corroborative evidence. —A cross action was then heard, in which the seaman charged the mate with assaulting him. Similar evidence was: given, from which it appeared clearly that the mate (JTauriafofd) had been the aggressor, and had assaulted fox. —The Bench, after hearing bath cases, fined the mate 20s, and ordered him to pay the expenses ; at the same time cautioning him as to the impropriety of using force instead of appealing to the Civil'powers in similar cases.