POLICE COURT.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 431, 10 December 1861, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

John M'Manus apprehended by detective Scarlett on board the Lord Aahley, on suspicion of being one of the persons who, on the 27th ultimo, stopped the mail between Muswellbrook and Chain of Ponds, and stealing JE2SO in notes, 23 ozs. gold, &c, was remanded to the Maitland Bench to be dealt with. He had in his possession £10 10s., a bill of exchange on New Zealand for £20, and an extensive supply of arms and ammunition. John Carmichael, baker and seller of bread, was found guilty (in the magistrates' private room), on the prosecution of Mr. Mitohelson, of having in his shop and premises thirty 2 lb. loaves on which was a gross deficiency of 32£ ounces, but in consequence of fiuding also twelve loaves whioh showed an aggregate of 4£ ozs. excessive weight, he proceeded only for 19 oza the net deficiency of all the newly baked bread (having set aside a number of loaves which Carmichael alleged were over-baked) on the premises. Defendant was convicted of the offence, and was sentenced to pay a penalty of £4 15s. with 10s. costs of Court, and 10s. 6d. professional costs for Mr. Cory, who conducted the case for Mr. Mitchelson. Mary Ann Byrnes and John Thomas Smith, sellers of bread, pleaded guilty to having shortweighed loaves in their shops, and were fined— Byrnes, 155.; and Smith, 205.; with 7a. 6d. costs, in each cas3. The Late Mr. Horatio Wills.—This lamented gentleman, who was so barbarously murdered by the blacks the other day in the colony of Queensland, was formerly a compositor in the Sydney Gazette Office, where he served his apprenticeship. In the year 1833 he left that occupation for sheep-farming, and was one of the first settlers in the Port Phillip district, where he ultimately became a prosperous colonial and member of the colonial Legislature. Soon after the separation of Moreton Bay, he invested a considerable sum in the purchase of runs in I that colony. The melancholy sequel is kuown to our readers.— Herald. Mr. A. S. Lyou, the founder of no less than four newspapers in the colony of Queensland, died recently at Cleveland, in the 44th year of his age. The departed gentleman bad long labored under a painful disease, and suffered much Bevere agony previous to his death. The four journals which Mr. Lyou established in Queensland are the Courier, the Free Press (now defunct), the North Australian, and the Darling Downs Gazette. The departed gentleman was buried on Saturday afternoon last.— Moreton Bay Courier. •