CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3806, 6 May 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, Mat 6. (Before His Worship the Mayor, and J. M. Ritchie, Esq., J.l*,) Drunkenness.-John Griffin, Samuel Williams, and Charles J ones were each fined 6s j in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Breach op the Harbor Regulations.— Henry Tomkins, owner and master of tho lighter Pet, was charged by Captain Thomson, harbor master, with neglecting to remove his vessel from the Jetty street jetty when ordered so to do by Captain Orkney, deputy harbormaster, There was a second information charging him with using improper language. Mr Hageritt defended.—On Wednesday last Captain Orkney was instructed by the harbormaster to request defendant to remove his lighter from alongside the jetty, so that tho berth occupied by the Pet might be vacated in favor of one of Mr Guthrie’s lighters. Defendant, when asked to remove his lighter, said he wgs if he would move for anyone. Soma weeks ago defendant was charged by Captain Orkney with an alleged breach of the Harbor Regulations, and the case was decided against the complainant. —Mr Haggitt pointed out that _ under neither information could a conviction follow. The first information wa a kid under the 41st regulation of tho Harbor Regulations, which expressly provided that only the harbor master or a person deputed by him could order the removal of any vessel from her berth ; and this must be for the general accommodation of the shipping. Here there was no evidence that the harbor master made any order for the Pel's removal, or that any person deputed by him made that order.—The Bench overruled both noth points raised by counsel j but dismissed the information charging defendant with using improper language for want of sufficient evidence.—Mr Haggitt then submitted that there was no proof that defendant had been allowed a reasonable time to remove his vessel, and characterised the proceedings as the result of ill-feeling entertained by Captain Orkney against defendant, through the latter having defeated him in an action heard lately. He 'Submitted that such conduct was not creditable to a man holding the position of deputy harbor-master.—The Bench considered the case proved, and fined defendant L 3 and costs.—Air Haggitt asked the Bench to draw up a conviction, as he wished to test its validity.