POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 39, 3 December 1842, Page 154

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Thursday last, J. Smith, who had for some time kept a baarding-house at Auckland Point, was brought before the Police Magistrate, charged by P. Skillicorn, a butcher, with taking away his clothes and other property. Smith had ta'ten his passage for Manilla in the New Zealand, and had put the things in question, as well as the w hole of his own properly, on board j considering that, as Skillicorn was indebted to him, he was entitled to whatever property he had belonging to him. Smith wways y remanded, to give him an opportunity of pro • curing evidence, and Skillicorn has, we believe, in the meantime left Nelson. Sarah Harris, who baa been living as servant with Miss Huxham, was on Thursday morning taken out of the Sisters, then about to sail for Wellington, charged with embezzling property from a man of the name of Rait. On the case being investigated, it appeared that the girl had taken a table-cloth and counterpane home to her mistress, at the request of Rait's wife, to induce her to purchase them, and it became a question whether it was not a simple case of debt. The girl was accordingly discharged. On Friday, a man named Smale was charged by Edward "Ellerm with shooting a pig belonging to him, which had broken into Stnale's garden. Smale was committed for trial, but liberated on bail. T. Berry was charged by a maori named Ekoha, residing at the Motuaka pah, with shooting a pig, belonging to him. Another maori, named Potaia, deposed that while lying in the bush he saw Berry shoot the pig, and afterwards drag it along. The Magistrate considered the case sufficiently proved to commit Berry for trial, but liberated him on bail.