POLICE COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2147, 12 January 1881, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

OHBISTOHUROH. Wednesday, Januaby 12. (Befoee J. Inglis and F. E. Wright, Esqs, J.P.'e.) Dbtsnxbnnbss. Mary Ann Duffus, for ' being drunk at tbe Bail way Station, was fined 10s, and cab hire Is. Using Obbobhb Language. James Sohraeder, for an offence of this nature, was fined 20s, or forty-eight hours' imprisonment with hard labor. Labobny.—J. M. Strand admitted having stolen kauri boards, valued at 20s. from the timber yards of J. T. Brown. Prosecutor ■aid ho had no deiire to preos the charge, and accused was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labor. Doo Stealing.—Edward Hampton, arrested at Bakaia for stealing a dog, the owner of which is unknown, was remanded for forty-eight hours, and liberated on his own recognisance of £lO. Failing to Pboyidb.—Walter Cole, who was brought up for not maintaining his wife and family, was ordered to pay 15s per week for that purpose, or, in default of any_ payment, one month's imprisonment. Michael Casey, charged with deserting his wife, who lives at Oamaru, and to whom he has been married twenty-eight years, denied the charge. He said be left home in search of work, and had not found it. He was remanded to Oamaru. Vagbanoy. Mary Ann Purdin was brought up under the Vagrancy Act oharged with having no visible means of support. The Solice stated that she was of weak intellect, he had been in the Armagh street Depot, but had left there the day before, had slept somewhere in the streets last '.light, and was pioked up by the police an hour before being bronght into Court. The authorities at tho Depot refused to receive her again on account of bad conduct. She was sent to Addington Gaol for one month.