POLICE COURT.—Saturday.

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POLICE COURT.— Saturday.

Before AY. Fraser, Esq., R.M. Vagrant Horse. —John Brown, charged with permitting one horse to wander at large in Rolleston-street, on the 3rd inst., was fined 2s fid and costs. Juvenile Depravity. —John Sullivan, a boy ten years of age, was charged with stealing a meerschaum pipe, value £2, the property of Thomas Waterworth. —The boy pleaded guilty. —Mr Macdonald said the prosecutor was not desirous to press the charge. Sergeant Pardy said the nature of "the ease was that prosecutor was working on the beach, and put his lA'aistcoat down with his pipe in his pocket, and on coming back he found the pipe had gone. This boy was suspected, and was traced home, and it Avas found that he had gh-en the pipe to his mother, saying he had found it. The mother was a very respectable woman.— In answer to the E.M., the boy said he did not take the pipe from the man’s Avaistcoat pocket, but found it lying on the beach near a waistcoat deposited there, and he picked it up and look it home.—The R.M. said under the circumstances, and as the prosecutor Avas satisfied, he Avould,

discharge the prisoner with a caution. The hoy was then discharged, his Worship saying that he hoped the boy would never appear before him again. The youth then left the Court with his mother, the latter saying she felt very thankful to the R.M. for having dealt with the case leniently, and promising to do her best to make her so» a good hoy for the future.

.Tames Millan was brought, up by warrant, and charged by Detective Murphy with stealing a large quantity of goods of the value of £3O, the property of Henry Schultz, of Auckland. Tho articles were enumerated as follows; —1 camphor wood box containing clothes, 1 ditto box ware, cooking utensils, a clock, gold Albert guard, seal and key, a silver hunting watch, a pipe, a quantity of bed linen, blankets, tools, hooks, weights, &c. —Sergeant Pardv said lie had to apply for a remand for a week, in order to enable the case for tho prosecution to he properly prepared. The whole of the stolen property had not been recovered.—Mr Macdonald who appeared for prisoner, asked for bail, saying that it was very doubtful whether prisoner stole these things in the ordinary acceptation of the term. —His Worship said he would grant the remand asked for, and would take bail—tho prisoner in £IOO, and two sureties of £SO each. The nature of the case, we understand, is that the accused is alleged to have been on intimate terms at the prosecutor/s with whose property he ultimately made very free.

Obscene Language.— Michael Kelly was charged with using obscene language in Davy-street.—Mr Macdonald appeared for (lie defendant, who pleaded not guilty.— Constable Couglan was put into the witness box, and deposed to hearing the accused making use of very bad language. He was in his own house, hut he could ho heard plainly in the street. The language made use of was written on a pieco of paper aud handed to the Court.—Mrs Knox gave corroborative evidence.—Mr Macdonald having cross-examined the witnesses to show that there was considerable provocation, the R.M. fined defendant 20.with the alternative of seven days’ im prisonment in case of non-payment, bis Worship observing that the languag sworn to have been made use of was vin had, and that there was a mistaken idea among many people that a man might say what he liked in his own house, but if a man made use of bad language in his own house which could be heard in the public thoroughfare, it was just as culpable as if said in the open street. Neighbor’s Quarrels. —Ellen Sinclair was charged with using insulting and abusive language towards Letitia Wood. From the evidence of the prosecutrix it appeared that there had been a quarrel between the parties, and that the defendant called the prosecutrix a bigamist and something worse also, and some mutual recriminations took place ns to eacli having the advantage or disadvantage of two husbands.—The R.M. said he must call upon the defendant to pay the costs of these proceedings, £1 18s fid, and enter into a recognizance of £lO to keep the peace for the next three mouths.