POLICE COURT—Tuesday Oct. 24th.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 16, 25 October 1871, Page 3

POLICE COURT — Tuesday Oct. 24th.

Before W. Fraser, Esq., R.M. Breach of/ ?Vagrant; Walker, and Mary Ann Neddiss were charged by Detective Murphy, with being common prostitutes, and with .behaving in a xiotousiand indecentmanner'in Brown street, the previous night. The charge being proved, the R. M. sentenced each of the prisoners to two months hard labor. Unclean Premises. Frederick Bennett was charged by Constable Brennan with neglecting to keep clean his premises in David street, to which he pleaded guilty, and was fined 2s 6d, and costs. Destroying a Fence.— John Christian Richler and Charles Bichems were charged with destroying a fence belonging to Lydia Vernon. Mr Dodd Mr 1 Miller appeared for complainant, and Mr Tyler for the defence. The case was not gone into, but was adjourned. until Thursday. From the statement of the learned counsel for the defence, in reply to a question from the Bench', it appeared that defendants were employed by Mr Greenway of Auckland to construct a flume on the Ilape Creek; and Mr Vernon, acting for his wife, put a paling across it which the men . removed, and after doing their work put it back again. The R.M.,intimated that if a disputed title to property arose, he was not the proper party to adjudicate upon the matter, but he -vyould grant the adjournment to Thursday. Music and Dancing. —An application by Caroll Nash, for permission to have music and dancing at his licensed house, the Munster Hotel, Pollan-street, en the evening of the 24th instant, was granted. The R.M. said this sort of application had become very frequent of late. The clause of the Act under which these applications were granted required the special circumstances under which the application was sought to be set forth, “ Such order shall only be granted for some special occasion to be stated-in such application.” Now the application in this case, as in many others, was for the purpose of entertaining a few friends, which was a statement in general rather than special terms. The present application would be granted, but in future he should require the terms of the Act to be complied with more staictly before granting the application.