POLICE INTELLIGENCE

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 36, 12 November 1842, Page 143

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

On Tuesday last, the adjourned complaint of John Clarke against Richard Wallis, for allowing his bullocks to jump over his fence into complainant's garden, was again heard. The damage done having been laid by Clarke at five pounds, and by Forster, whom Clarke had requested to value it, at fourteen pounds ten shillings ; evidence was taken as to the state of the fence, and the amount of damage. Several practical men, amongst whom was Mr. Cullen, having borne evidence to the trifling damage done, Wallis was. ordered to pay one pound to Clarke and costs, which Clarke refused to receive. Captain Swany, of the schooner Mana, was charged,. on the information of one of the constables, with having harboured a seaman of the Thomas Harrison, who had deserted. As it appeared by the evidence that the offence had been committed with a belief of the Captain of the Thomas Harrison hav ; .ig refused to prosecute the sailor, Captain dwany was fined one shilling and costs. • • John Smith, the keeper of a lodging house on Auckland Point, was charged with unlawfully detaining clothes, the property of a sailor of the name of Crimp, who had shipped on board -tho Thomas- Harrison. Smith,- in his defence, produced a' bill to the amount of ten pounds for money advanced to the complainant and for seven weeks' board and lodging, the fairness of which Crimp did not attempt to deny. The defendant" was ordered to restore all clothes absolutely necessary for the voyage, but no more.

To the Editor of the Nelson Examiner. Sir — I feel it my duty to call your attention to an occurrence which has been stated to me as a fact. On Saturday last, a woman living with a man of the name of Lewis, in the upper part of Brook Street, was burnt so badly by her clothes catching fire, that she died during the following night. The accident happened about four o'clock in the afternoon. The man Lewis came into the town, ard applied first to one, and then another medical man, to come and see her, in both cases he was refused ; in the first instance, on account of previous fatigue on the part of the surgeon, and in the second, because be had no written order from Captain Wakefield. " Eventually an order was procured, by sending round to the Port. This order was presented at half-past nine o'clock to a third medical man, who went to attend her, and found her then in a dying state. I do not mention any name because it is possible that I may be misinformed, and I shall be most happy to hear this statement contradicted and a more creditable view of the matter presented. Should the case be as above, I have only to remark that I judge no one. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A Man. [We publish the above letter without any remarks. If the facts are as stated, they need none— they speak for themselves.]