LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 186, 5 August 1864, Page 2

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Robbery from the Person.— John Reeves was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, on Saturday last, with having stolen

from one William M’Laren, notes on the New Zealandßanktothevalueof£lo6. Itappeared in evidence that both the prosecutor and the prisoner arrived here in the schooner Bee, as also some of the witnesses, and that M’Laren was lying down on the hill, somewhere on Scinde Island, and on awaking found the prisoner near him. He then missed five £2O notes, and six £1 notes. Sergeant-Major Scully having received information of the robbery, apprehended the prisoner as he lay concealed in Fitzgerald’s gully, and found notes onhim to the amount of £l7. Theprisoner afterwards'pointedouttoSergt-Major Scully a fencing-post near the place where he was apprehended, at the bottom of which was secreted a bag containing four £2O notes. Mr. Jeffares proved that the prisoner had changed a £2O note at his house on the night of the 28th. The prisoner, having nothing to say in defence was then committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, and was dealt with as stated in our last. Knowles v. LaSeeee.— At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, on Tuesday last, plaintiff sought to recover £5 Bs. for articles supplied to men of the Colonial Defence Force on the order of H. Knight, a clerk in the Defence Office. It appeared that Mr. LaSerre, who is an officer in the above corps, had first obtained articles from Mr. Knowles’s store for some of the men, for which he gave written orders ; and that, on leaving town, the clerk above-named gave similar orders to the amount claimed. Plaintiff afterwards saw defendant about the 6th June, and was informed by him (defendant) that he would not be responsible after that date for anything the men might get. Defendant stated that he was not responsible for any orders not drawn by himself.—The Court recommended the parties to settle the matter out of Court, but wo are informed that no settlement has yet been arrived at. Late Lettees. —As a misunderstanding exists as to the fees payable on late letters, Mr.; Bourke has requested us to call attention to postal regulation 83 (published in Gazette No. 66 on 23rd Dec. 1863) under which an additional fee of Is. is payable on all late letters, posted at the post office for foreign mails. Also to regulation No. 84 (published in Gazette No. 9, of 12th March 1864), under which an additional fee of 6d. is payable on all inter-provincial letters posted at the post office, or placed in the letter bags on board mail steamers.