HAMILTON POLICE COURT. Wednesday, March 29. (Before Major Clare, J.P., and Captain McPhersou. J.P.)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 602, 30 March 1876, Page 2

HAMILTON POLICE COURT. Wednesday, March 29. (Before Major Clare, J.P., and Captain McPhersou. J.P.)

A. RECKLIMS CIIAKQE. Ja» Mooru appeared to answer the information of one Bryan, charging him with j title i n? away a waistcoat, rug, and blanket (his ptoporty), from one ot the Immigration cottages in Hamilton. The rug and blanket were produced in Court, ami each party laid claim to them. Constable Coyle stated that on Saturday evening an information was laid against defendant for going to one of the [uirnigratiou cottages and taking away a waistcoat, ru?, And blanket belonging to informant. Witness proceeded on Tuesday to Mr Coates camp, at a swamp about eight miles from .Hamilton, where defendant was Working. He admitted being in Hamilton on the Saturday and taking a blanket and rag (hiß own property), but denied ha?ing taken the waistcoat. Witness arrested htm. Ho said he could prove they were his own. Had searched the tent he lived in but found no waistcoat, only the rug and blanket. Informaut described the blanket and rug by marks. He said the rug was marked 87, but he did not mention the letter J and the broad arrovr which appear on it. Defendant stated that the goods were his and not plaintiff's. The marks were not J and the broad arrow but J M, his initials. The Bench dismissed the charge, and the blankets was handed over to the prisoner, who was at once discharged, having been locked np since Tuesday.

W« are requested to inform the inhabitant* of the Waikato district* that Mr Hubert' ■ store, of Ngarunwahia, which hat been cloned for the last month, owing to tha change of ownership and the extensive alteration of promiiet, wiil be opened bj J, Qilmour &Co on Thunday, the 30th instant. There will be a cheap tale of the ttock which wh on hand preTioui to the purchase. — (Advt.J By advertisement in another column we are given to underHtand that the fast and favorite p. s. 'Quickstep,' A. Marshall, master, is going to carrj general cargo, paying one visit per week to Cambridge. Thu, wo havo no doubt, will be a great boon to the settlers of Waikato, by enabling them to get their j goods with rather greater punctuality than hereto- < tore. Mr 0. G. Quick having made such arrange- i menu with the Government as will enable him to compete successfully with the Waikato Steam Navigation Company in the transit of goods through rom Auckland to Cambridge and all intermediate stations. Mr gheppard, ngent for Auckland, will i always be in nttenuonoe at the Haiiwav Station to mem goods fur Waikato.— (Advt.)