AUCKLAND.
October 4. ' Garth, the captain of the barque Gazelle, was charged with smuggling and fined £100 at the Police Court yesterday. The vessel has been seized by the Customs authorities. She belongs to Mr Ellis, of Newcastle, New South Wales. In the Supreme Court yesterday, in the case of Samuel Joy, charged with bigamy, the jury, brought in a verdict of guilty in the eye of the law, but a strong recommendation to mercy, as the first marriage had not been consummated, the first wife, a half-caste, having eloped twenty minutes after the ceremony. The jury believed the prisoner thought the marriage was null and void when he contracted the second marriage. Judge Gillies reserved his decision. John Davis, charged with stealing £60 from Thomas Davis, a hotelkeeper at Kamo, was acquitted. To-day a nolle prosegue was entered in the case of Lyttle, charged with bigamy, and the prisoner was discharged. Samuel Joy, for bigamy, was sentenced to two months imprisonment without hard labor. The Hon. Mr Dick left in the Hawea for New Plymouth yesterday.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3508, 4 October 1882, Page 3
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