POLICE COURT.—Yesterday.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1832, 5 June 1874, Page 3

POLICE COURT.—Yesterday.

: : ,(Bcfore ; \y.,i'flASEß, Esq,, R.U.j Dbays without Name.—Hugh Davis was charged . with unlawfully driving a dray witlioufc the name of the owner being paiutod •' tbereob. Defendant pleaded guilty,' arid was fined 5s and costs, or to be imprisoned for 48 hours.—His Worship said he might inform other carters that he would impose a heavior fiue in the event of other cases being brought.— George Constable was charged with the same offence, and was also fined 5s and costs, or to be imprisoned for 48 hours.

The Bank o£ New South net profits for the half-year were £92 700 ovt of which a dividend and bonus equtl to 17| per cent, is declared, aud £5 000 voted to tha officers' guarantee and provident fund.

A. Dunedin butcher is exhibiting iu his shop what he stites to ba " the larpeao pig ever killed ia New Zealand." The weight ol the animal cleaned a id dressed in Gs2lbs,

The total receipts from the Palmer Goldfield, Queensland, since the establishment of the .township, are stated to hare besn 20,000 ozs. of gold. . ..

An explosion through fire damp occurred in the Tivoli coal mine at Ipawich, Queensland. Two men were blown 30 yards in the air. The tunnel was badly iujured.

In an article upon the Volunteers, a writer in the Wellington Independent makes the following complimentary remarks" An inspection has recently takenplide under a new inspector; uid, a3 new brooiu3 aro proverbial, we shall be anxious to see his report, which, rumour states vvill not be generally favourable, It cou'd •scarC-ly be; the scanty attendance at country parades'; the half and-half dress; the slovenly vay in which drill is carried on,, in miny easts the instructor!.drilling the moil while the officers walk about with sword clanking at heel; the short-comings in these noat essential paints, discipline and drill; these are all likely ti. strike forcibly an experience! officer such as vlajor Gordon We have not been sparing in our comments, because, the question is one which lies between the taxpayer and the.velunteer, and,as the former has a right to insist that the latter shall not nnke_ a ofc vdwla