POLICE COURT.—This Day.
(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.) TDRTJ-KENNESS.
R. W. Birmingham and William Cox were charged with being drun_. last night in the public street and fined 10s each. John Roch, an old man in a most melancholy plight, who denied being drunk, but upon the charge being proved by Constable Naughton, he was fined 20s and costs or subjected to 48 hours' imprisonment. HARBOURING. DESERTERS. George Allen was char, ed with a breach of the Naval Discipline Act, section 25, by assisting- two of H.M. marines, named 1 Joseph Nee and William Thorne, belonging
to the Blanche, to desert from the said aY and employing them with the knn*S p ' i . that they were deserters. *&, '& Defendant said he was guilty of enmW; I the men, but not with the knowledgei ttf 2' they were deserters. Mr Broham asked for a remand in oft i • that the necessary witnesses might be sent to prove the charge." -*JBB_ , : His Worship remarked that theses were getting too common, and shonto!. be lightly dealt with. "mM Remanded until to-mOrrow. This was all the business.
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Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1306, 15 April 1874, Page 2
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