CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4168, 6 July 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, July 6. (Before A. Mercer, Esq., and C. S. Reeves. Esq., J.P.'s)

Ditr/NKBiiNusg, _ George Eenwick and James Devine were each fined ss; John Johnson was fined 20s, in default three days' imprisonment; and Charies Henry Newton was ordered to pay a penalty of 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment. Coal and Wood Poachers.—John Henry Harding, a colored man, who has a large number of previous convictions recorded against him, was charged with having, on the sth inst., Btolen two logs of wood from the Stuart street wharf. Sergeant Anderson deposed that frequent complaints had been made to him regarding the stealing of wood and coal. He arrested the prisoner on the btuart street wharf with the wood in his possession, and he was unable to account J°r his having obtained the same.— The Bench ordered him twenty-four hours imprisonment. Christian Lawson was also charged with stealing some coal from the Stuart street wharf.—lnspector Mallard said there was scarcely a wood or coal merchant in this «ity but what had complained to the police during the past three or four months of having been robbed of large quantities of firewood and ctal. The pob.ee had therefore been specially instructed to look tut for these depredators. Henry Bowen, clerk to F. Fulton, said that since coal had been brought in lighters from Port Chalmers to Stuart street wharf they lost five tons out of every hundred, through its being stolen.—Prisoner was sentenced to twenty-four hours' imprisonment. Theft from a Yacht.—Frederick Wm. Walter and Charles Burke were jointly charged with stealing pig iron, to the value of LlO, the property of C. H. Street, on the Ist ult.—Mr E. Cook appeared for the accused.—Mr Street deposed to the iron being stolen from his yacht at Deborah Bay.— <*. W. Mason, settler at Deborah Bay, said after the iron had been stolen he made inquines regarding it and discovered some of the iron, which was of a peculiar description, in Mr Davidson's foundry. He had seen prisoners at Deborah Bay in a flatbottomed scew. —R. B. Jones, clerk to Messrs David*on and Co., said he purchased a quantity of iron from prisoners, for which he paid them L 5 12s 6d. They said they got the iron from Port Chalmers. Both the accused were committed for triai