CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3924, 21 September 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuusday, September 21. (Before H. S. Fish, Esq., and T. Birch, Esq., J.iVs)

BrcnKEiTNSßS.—Lindsay P. Bowen, John Buckley, Jame* Iver, and George Wesley were each lined ss, with the option of twenty-four hours' imprisonment; Mary Jane Gibbs, 40s or fourteen days'. Thkft. —Frederick Young was charged with stealing, from the p.s. Samson, a pair of boot", of the value of 255, the property of Jatneß Orr. There was a second charge against the same prisoner of stealing propei ty belonging to another seaman. —On th» application ot the police both chaiges were remanded till Thursday, to enable th« steamer to return from Oamaru—bail being allowed in his o»n recognisance of LlO and two sureties of LlO each.

Vagrancy.—Henay Birrell, a most disgust-ing-looking object, charged with having no lawful means of support, was sent to gaol for three months.

Sunday Liquor Traffic.—Anne Diamond, of the Globe Hotel, wlB charged with Helling, on Sunday, tho 12th mst., a pint of ale to one Laurence Donohue, not a bond fide lodger or traveller. —Defendant pleaded that tho drink was supplied unknown to her. She had authorised her Bervant not to serve auyoneon thri Sabbath—-Mr Fi*h: Is it the intention of the police to interfere with and put down Sunday trading ?—lnsp< ctor Mallard: It is, yotlf Worst ip. The whole of the licensed houses have bean visited the past two or three Sundays by the sergeant in charge of the section - , Whoever he maybe, iu order that the 33rd clause of the Act may be enforced. Mrs Diamond conducts her house very well. — The Bench thought the case would be met by a dismissal with a caution. It did not appear that Mrs Diamond knew that Donnoghue was being served with drink, and they dismissed the case", so that publicans might know through the columns of the Press that the police intended to enforce the Act, and that might have tho effect of stopping Sunday trade throughout the town. The case was dismissed more with a view of giving notice to the trade generally than anything else. Obscene Language.—Helen Hesman alias Carbery, charged with using obscene language in a righl-of-way off Stafford street, was find 60s and costs; in default seven days' imprisonment.