RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT, HAMILTON. (Yesterday, Before His Worship the Mayor.) Breach of the Larceny Act.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1341, 3 February 1881, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT, HAMILTON. (Yest erday, Before His Worship the Mayor.) Breach of the Larceny Act.

TkoMJMrLKM was^harged on the information of John William Merrick, storekeeper, of Cambridge, with having, on the 23r<£ January, 1877, obtained a saddle and bridle and pair of boots, ofHhe value of £6 12a 6d.— Secgt McGovero stated that the witnesses resided at Cam* bridge, and he would therefore apply for a remand for eifjjht day§ to that;pfAce/ Ha hand no objection 'to allowing bail, "but would ask that it; be made substantial. His Worsnip accordingly remanded the case for eight days to Cambridge. > Bail ■would be granted in two sureties of £50 and in the prisoner's own reoogoisaice of £100, , . . •

Vagrancy. i William Baker, alias Becker,, was charged with being drimk and disorderly, i and with making use of obscene and abusive language in a public place on the ni^ht of the let inst. , The prisoner pleaded guilty to being drank, but denied all knowledge of the language alleged to hare been used by him, The evidence of Constable Wild having been taken, Sergeant McGovern gave the prisoner a very bad character. He had ' served eighteen months for house-breaking, and been convicted on three or four times besides. His Worship fined the prisoner 10s on the first oharge, with the alterna* ive of forty-eight hours' impriwraraent. On the second charge he would find him £5, or two months in gaol.