News of the Day.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 385, 14 June 1866, Page 2

News of the Day.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COUBT. Monday, 11th June. (Before Jobn Carling, Esq., 8.M.) " larceny.

James Conway, a private in H.M.’s 12lh Eegt,, was charged with stealing a fencing post from the vicinity of the Cemetery. It was proved that the posts used in fencing the Cemetery having been missed by the contractors (Messrs J. Eegg ami JET. J. Cotterell), they informed the SergeantMajor of Police, who sent a police constable named Patrick Casey to watch the pile of posts. The constable caught the prisoner, who was one

of the guards, taking away one of the posts about 1 o’clock in the morning of Sunday. The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, with hard labor. Tuesday, 12th June. DRUNKENNESS. Robert Parker was fined 10s, and two men named respectively Simpson and Davie were fined 5s for drunkenness. BREACH OF SHEEP AND SCAB ACT. "William Glenny and Thomas Glenny wer ft charged by H. Moreeroft- with a breach'' of the Sheep and Scab Act, in not giving twenty-four hours’ notice of their intention to drive sheep over his run. He said that about the 20th April Mr J. Davis, of Rgawhakatatara, passed through his run with some sheep, and gave notice that another flock, in charge of Messrs Glenny, would pass through on the 29th. He told Mr Davis that he would not accept this as sufficient notice, but on the 29th posted a shepherd at the gate to receive them there. They did not come, however, till (ho next day. He did not wish to press the matter, but he frequently suffered great inconvenience from the fact of persons giving lonor notices, and not bringing their sheep till some days after. A shepherd had to be kept waiting for them, and sometimes they were as much as three days behind their time. William Corbyn, who appeared for Messrs Glenny, said that they considered the notice they had sent by Mr Davis to be sufficient, and that as he had gone on in an opposite direction ho could not tell them that it had not been accepted. Pined £1 and costs, 3s. CIVIL CASES. Gorton v. Dyctt.—A claim of £B. This money had been paid by Gorton to Dyett while he was insolvent, instead of to Mr Lyndon, the trustee, who sued Gorton for the money, and obtained it. This action was to recover the money from Dyett.—Judgment for amount claimed, and 6s costs. Dyett v. Lyndon.—A claim for the cost of certain refreshments at a sale of plaintiff’s property.—Case dismissed. Miller v. Trimmer.—A claim of £3 for some hay, the property of plaintiff, which had been sold to defendant by the captain of the schooner Queen, who has since left for Auckland.—Judgment for 30s. Wednesday, 13th June. DRUNKENNESS. John MTntosh was fined £1 for drunkenness, FELONY. A man named Floyd was charged by Mr C. O’Donnell with stealing £l3. It appeared that Mr O’Donnell had lost a purse containing money near the barracks. This was afterwards found by prisoner, who, knowing to whom it belonged, abstracted £l3 from it. Suspicion fell upon him in consequence of himself and his wife spending a great deal of money, and he afterwards confessed to two men—one of them a policeman—that he hud found the money, and that tho temptation,to appropriate it had been too strong for him to resist.—The prisoner was remanded till to-day, at II o’clock.

Sudden Death. —lt is our melancholy duty to record the sudden death of Dr J. M.’ Bateson, which took place at the Shamrock Hotel, on Tuesday last, between 12 and 1 o’clock. The deceased gentleman had just ridden in from Clive, and was sitting at dinner in the Shamrock Hotel, when ho was seized with a fit, and expired on the spot. Dr Bateson was well-known and highly respected in Xapier, and his loss will be lelt by all classes of the community. An inquest will bo held at the Shamrock Hotel, this day, at II a.m.

Clever Capture oe a Thief. —At the K.M.’s Court, on Monday, a private of the 12th Begt., named Conway, received the sentence of two months’ imprisonment, with hard labor, for stealing a fencing post, value two shillings, from the Cemetery. The contractors who are fencing the Cemetery found their posts disappearing very mysteriously from the ground night after night, and when seventeen had thus vanished, gave information to Sergeant-Major Scully, who, on Sunday night, posted a policeman on the snot. About 1 a.m. the prisoner appeared, and taking up one of the posts, proceeded to carry it oil". He was watched by the policeman, and followed to the barracks, where he was apprehended. He would have received a more severe punishment Ilian two months’ hard labor had he not pleaded guilty.

TiiEFr OF Monet.—At tlio E.M.’s Court, yesterday, a man named Floyd was charged with stealing £l3, the property of Mr C. O’.Donnell. Xhe man was apprehended on his own confession, ha having stated to two persons that he had found a purse of money belonging to Mr O’Donueil, ana had spent £l3 of it. He was suspected of the theft previously to his confession, from the manner in which he had been spending money. The case was adjourned till this morning, when the hearing will take place.