POLICE COURT.—Friday.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1249, 6 February 1874, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Friday.

(Before P. A. Philips',.Esq^R;M;)^i X ■..:■ ... . ..DRUNKENNESS. • ,\\

William Johnson, who, appeared to he vpy' deaf, y pleaded guilty to being drunkslast night. He deposed that he was a sailo^ffcj* landed in Auckland, and he partook (pretty freely of colonial beer, and it' made him %% steady. I '-v. .:' ..'*.

His Worship, under the circttastanceß? fined him 5s and costs, or twenty-fohr hep at Monnt Eden. ■"'■.'"

VAGRANCY. " ,-YY.:y,: ,Joseph Thompson, a 'wretched ./looking young man, ,who has frequently- app^jedin Court on a similar charge, was chargi-djA having no visible lawful, means of^ppory^j Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. , A WOMAN'S VAC ARIES. , Maria Lysaght was charged, with assaulting" Annie Crummins on the Ist instanty' ■<< His Worship suggested, a settlement of1 this small quarrel, but Mrs Cruinmiiii'sii^ she could not come to such an agreement with defendant, who was in the continual^ habit of annoying her. She had been subjected to persecution during the last sev^n months, and on Sunday morning last defendant came to her door and struck her on tb face with a hand-towel..- :

Mrs Lysaght, who held a young baby iiP \ I her arm 3, acknowledged that she.called on \sher neighbour on Sunday morning", bnt had'; •;.' no recollection of committing the offence _ I complained ...L Mr Lysaght, a respectable looking man, expressed a desire to have.'...therematter mutually arranged, but said he feared that_ 1 Mrs Lysaght was scarcely responsible forlef ! actions/1 .: ; A 'A%JL |L ; Mrs Lysaght was at length inducediwj g plead guilty to the charge, and w&^Jspv f| to enter into her own recognizances of £10 to keep the peace for three months. rf- 3 _v.r-,i;-'( 1 ~ BREACH OF. BUILDING, REGULATIONS, n '-'U 7 Mr Edward Bartlay, builder^: was charged | with a breach of the BuMing Regulations ofy I the City of Auckland on the 24th Jianuaryy £i M Mr Laishley appeared for defendant; andl 1 Mr Brodie for the City Council. Mr Brodie asked that the case nrigMrbr adjourned until Friday, next, as "the Citj, f j? Surveyor was particular engaged upon id- ; portant work, and could not conveineSti|| 1| attend before. r,,^-, Mr Laishley requested oh the part of his | client that the case might beheardto-mo^py as Mr Bartley was'anxious to have the matter settled.'1 '•-; ,;. '• :i 7,77 SJ7i His Worship adjourned the case; vPHw 1 Wednesday inext, coats to abide the judg- m ment. a- ,ifc ~ |, This was all the business. "." "A ::1