POLICE COURT.-Yesterday.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1806, 6 May 1874, Page 3

POLICE COURT.-Yesterday.

(Before J. Kiwonn, Esq., M.D., J.P., aud E. W. PooKEy, £s<i., J.P.'

Abusiye liANGtuaE.' — Oliver M, Creagh was charged with having made ■use of? abusive language towards H. 0. loun£ on the Ist instant, such language tending to provoke a breach of the peace.—Mr Macdonald Tyler for the plaintiff; and Mr Brassey for the dofendant, who pleaded not guilty.—Mr Tyler opened the case and called the plaintiff, who deposed that he was in Mr G-. T.' Wilkinson's office on Friday last when the defendant came in and said he wanted to see him about something he had written in the paper. He was not cool, he was excited. Plaintiff declined to have anything to say to him when defendant called him a d— blackguard, and threatened to take it out of him, Witness in consequence of the insolent conduct of the defendant threatened to call tno police. In cross-examination, witness said..that he had been purohas-1 ing land at Ohinemuri. He was informed that Mr Oreagh had a block next his. Witness felt aggrieved at certain action taken by Mr Creagh, relative to this laud purchase. -G. T. Wilkinson corroborated this testimony.—Defendant deposed that he went_ to Mr Young to askhim who hadgivon him theinformation that he (defendant) was inciting the Hauhaus, and that he was an agent of Mr Mackay. Mr Young, in a contemptuous manner, asked," Who are you ?" Witness told him that in oonsequence of what he had written in the papers, he was a liar. Wlien he went to Wilkinson's office, he had no intention of having a quarrel.—The Bench ordered the defendant to be bouud over to keep tho peace himself in £25 and one surety in a similar amount. Dbtjnkenness.—Francis MoKay was fined 103 and costs, -or, in default, 24 hours',imprisonment, for having been drunk and incapable. Teansfees of- 1 Licenses,— Vn application for the transfer of the license of the Cornwall Arms Hotel, Pollen-street, from James Fiteh to Jane .Fitch was granted, and an application by Joseph Woods for the transfer of the license of the Occidental Hotel, Grahamatown, from himself to .Charles Waldroa was adjourned until Saturday uex.^