THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 35, 6 March 1909, Page 2

THE COURTS.

ALLEGED FOKUERY. Ry Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Friday. At the Police. Court a young man named Thomas Hammond was remanded to Wanganui on a charge of having forged an endorsement to a fche<iue. PREACH OF RYE-LAWS. Wellington. Friday. Several prominent retail business firms were, charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with a breach 01 th«s city by-laws in 'having fixed gale no- | tices on their verandahs. These were j the first eases of the kind. Finos of I 5s each were, imposed.

SLY-GROG SELLING. Ashburton, Last Night. Win, Porter was fined £">o and costs for sly-grog selling. Gore, Friday. Frederick Dickson was lined €3 for eelling whisky in a no-license district, and Charles Pampa was lined £lO for selling beer. Malachi llarley, previously convicted, was imprisoned for 14 days, but hhe warrant was suspended during the illness of his daughter. He was ordered to come up for sentence on March 25, FEELING AGAINST AN INToIiMKU. Gore, LaH Nighl. The last of the sly-grog eases, that against Mary A. Byron, was dismissed, as the police evidence was not corroborated to the Magistrate's satisfaction. Mr. Hanlon, who defended, referring to the methods of obtaining convictions, said it must be remembered that a constable' was pnid by results over and above his salary. (Inspector Mitchell: Not necessarily.) The constable had sworn,that reward rested with the Commissioner. Another witness was a common informer, who admitted that he was so not. for money but for the love of the thing. There is a great ileal of feeling in town against the informer, who wn* taken from" the courthouse to the railway station by back ways under escort of two constables.

STOWAWAYS SKNT TO PRISON". Auckland, Last Night. Three young men—Henry Howling, William Day, and Richard Pettitt, who had stowed away on the steamer Waimate from London, and who were before the Police Court, to-day. explained that (hev could not get work in Mho Old Country. They had worked on the way out since leaving TenerilVe. and landed in Auckland with a total capital of U .'hi and a desire to get work. Each man wa* sentenced to one month's imprisonment.