Accidents, Offences, &c.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 255, 8 October 1884, Page 2

Accidents, Offences, &c.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch,.October 8. At the lt.M. Court yesterday, George Stevenson who came from England in the Coptic, was fined £25 for smuggling 20 second hand silver watches and three silver chains. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were concluded yesterday. The only case out of the ordinary run was that of Charles Haynes, a boy of 15 years, who pleaded guilty to throe charges of breaking into and stealing from dwellings, and was sentenced to twelve months hard labour.

Nelson, October 8. A man named Geo. Adams has been’ arrested at Urightwator for passing valuless cheques for small amounts drawn on the Colonial Bank at Takaka, where the bank has no branch. Dunedin, October 8. At Port Chalmers, yesterday, Alexander Dempsey, a passenger, by the Pleidas, was fined 80s or 7 days imprisonment for stealing a case of brandy on the voyage. Another passenger named Gregory was the principal witness. News has been received from Sydney that three persons who formerly held a good position in Dunedin, viz., McKay, Thomas Dodson, and Edward Pritchard, have been arrested ofia charge of conspiring to defraud the creditors of McKay. Wellington, October A. In the Supreme Court yesterday Annie Anderson was acquitted of infantacide, but was sentenced to one years imprisonment on a charge of concealment of birth. Mahoney, for biting a man’s nose off was sentenced to three months. W. Smith, for larceny, was sentenced to 18 months. At the R.M. Court, Masterton, Perry and McKenna, gold prospectors, were committed for trial for obtaining money on false pretences, by saying they had discovered a reef near Masterton, but which it was alleged had been “ salted.” Auckland, October 8. At the Supreme Court yesterday the girl Rosina Smith, charged with infantacide, was found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to six months hard labor.