POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1663, 17 June 1875, Page 3

POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

(Befoie Thomas Beckham, Esq;, KM.) MIDNIGHT REFELLERS. George Craig (second offence) was charged with being drunk last night.—Craig, an elderly man, denied the charge; he spurned the accusation. Constable Melville deposed that the man was helplessly drunk in Durham-street, and quite insensible. Sergeant Sanderson stated that prisoner was in a sad state of inebriation. It was an act of kinkness to bring him to the station, as he was quite incapable. Prisoner : I was not tipsy though ; simply in a fit. His Worship : I will put the case off until to-morrow, if you have any witnesses to bring forward to establish your innocence. Prisoner: Rather not, your Worship; don't care about it; might as well be settled now, but I wasn't drunk. Fined 20s and costs.

William Matthews was fined 10s ; John Stafford, 20s, for the same offence. Peter Doull and William Johnston forfeited their bail.

EIDDY AND BESS,

Two female residents of classical Mill Lane, West Queen-street, known by their names Bridget Condron and Elizabeth Deidrick, were charged with swearing and using dreadful language in Mill Lane on the 16th instant.

The girls, rudely clad, pleaded guilty. The Court, on being informed on paper of the exact nature of the language used by these hapless daughters of Erin, expressed surprise.

The girls seemed to think that the language was not so bad for Mill Lane—a retired walk in the breezy region of West Queen-street, the haixnt of blighted flowers and ragged robes, but which have as yet escaped the keen eye of the poet and the fanciful gaze of the painter.

Constable Axam was walking in the locality on his beat, and his ears tingled with the terrible curses of the girls, whose lungs evidently were in a healthy state, as the atmosphere seemed to ring with the sounds of the girls' voices.

His Worship said the girls must pay £5 each, or go to prison witii hard labour for one month. BREAKING AND ENTERING. James Dunnett, a stout strong man, was charged with breaking and entering a dwelling-house, occupied by Charles Boyce, on the 22ad of May, and stealing therefrom gold and silver brooches, and two gold earrings, value £5.

Mr Broham asked for a remand, in order that fact and evidence might be collected. Itemanded for a week. BREACH OF DOMAIN ACT.

Mr John Harker was charged with committing a breach of the Domain and other Acts, by taking away and removing the Artillery shed, which was the property of the Commissioners, without their consent and contrary to the provisions of the said Acts.

Mr Brookfield, who appeared fer defendant, asked for a remand for a week, in the interim of which the case might possibly be settled.

Mr Harker, it appeared, acted under the instructions of Major Gordon, who was not aware that he was acting wrongly.

Mr Lusk appeared for the Commissioners, and consented to an adjournment.

The case was therefore adjourned until Thursday next.

This was all the business,