COURT OF PLTTY SESSIONS.-This Day.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1392, 28 July 1874, Page 2

COURT OF PLTTY SESSIONS.-This Day.

(Before A. K. Taylor (chairman), Allan O'Neill. T. Macffairlane, T> Cfreeaeman, S. L. Tole, and L. H. Kathan, Esq?;, Justices). - ■ . DItTJNK. Francis "Reid and Thomas Jones were convicted, on their own admission of this offence, and received the ordihary punishment. Henry Green, an able seaman of the Countess of Kintore, was charged wi'h. a breach of the Merchant Shipping Act by absenting himself from his ship without leavQ Qn \h(T vi *Moi<L7,zn infant. ' , .- Tho chief officer of the vessel deposed to prioonur haviug been ordered to.keep wfttch last night on board the ship. He went on duty but afterwards left the ship without permission. He ga}-e him into custody m QDeeb-Btfeei at 10 o'clock. Ptisorier ask::d the mate whether it was not true that be liacl been told that he would not be obliged to keep night duty. This the officer denied. , On making his statement the prisoner said he had had aheavy fall. He did not know tn'ritjho^M. brflaVinfl the taw or ho should not have left the bill p. The Bench decided that the prisoner should go back to the ship on payment of tho costs of the proceedings.

A BAD CHARACTER. Rebecca Culberb, a gaudily dressed young lady of equivocal appearance, was accused Of a breach of the Vagrant Act by being a notorious prostitute and having no lawful means of subsistence. She was also accused of being an incorrigible rogue" aiid a vagabond by. haw" four previous convictions recorded aorainat her. As the prisoner would only plead guilty to a poition of the charge, Detective Jeffrey was put into the witnessbox to prove the case. He deposed to complaints having been laid against the house which prisoner occupied at the corner of Victoria and Coburg-streets. .On receiving the complaints he had been instructed to go to the prisoner's house and give her warning to leave within three days. This she had taken no notice of, although she promised at first to go and live in Symonds-. street. He had known her for many years as -a notoriously bad character. She had been frequently detected in harbouring children. On being questioned by one of their Worships, the witness said he was satisfied when prisoner told him she would remove to Symonds-street. This the Bench expressed surprise at considering the character of the woman, who would be as great a nuisance in Symonda^reet as where she was now Detective Terna^! 1 corroborated the evidence of Detective Jeffrey. -?->+pptivea The prisoner denied that the ««>,% ; had spoken to her personally. It w&S the people next door that complaints wei'e made about.. She was quite willing to leavo the place on Friday in the "Southern Cross" if let off this time. She had some friends at Tauranga who would be willing to receive her. An excited individual here got up in Court and began a harangue in prisoner's favour. He had known her for six years, and she was honest—that she was. An officer here said that the defender of beauty in distress waa drunk. • The word was no sooner uttered than the indiscreet champion was rather forcibly evicted into the street, and his oration came to a premature close. Their Worships said that if the prisoner would keep her word to go away they had no wish to deal harshly with her. Sergeant-Major Pardy said the police only wished to protect the interests of the respectable inhabitants. Prisoner was then discharged on condition that she left the town within a week. CHEAP PASTURAGE AGAX"»V William. Jennings waa charged for the fifth time with allowing his cows to stray on unenclosed land within the City of Auckland; to wit, the neighborhood of Edwardes street'

Mr P.A. Phillips, the Town Clerk, attended on behalf of the City Council, Hje said he trusted that whether' the defendant pleaded guilty or not guilty the Court would mark their sense 01 the seriousness of thefcharge. He had been informed that defendant carried on his infringements of the law systematic oally, He let out his cows and posted big

sons on commanding spots in the vicinity to <r \vc the alarm on the approach of a blueC°Deftndant on* being asked, pleaded guilty. Ho was fined 30s, and costs.-

A NUMBERLESS CART. - Joseph Craig, who was represented by the would-be champion of distress mentioned above, pleaded guilty to not keeping , the number of a cart belonging to him exposed in a conspicuous place according to the Dylaw. He was fined 103 and costs. A NtTISAKOa. William Jones was summoned for allowing the contents-of a privy on his premises to °Vl)efen Vdant pleaded guilty, but said Mr C. Gr.-enway had promised to settle it. He was fined 20a and coats. A charge of vagrancy against poor tiiily Wells, a shoe-black, was withdrawn by conPardy said that the old man had b£en found asleep in a loft, hut he was in such a miserab.'e condition that it had teen deemed advisable to send lnua to thehoapital. Before the conHrming of the licenses Mr L. N. Nathan retired fttm the Bench.

TKAHSFEKO-F titiBKSKS. The fbllawinjr' transfers' of licenses approved of by the Inspector of Police were confirmed by the Bench : — ' To Adam Cairns from Albert Gnmtas, Eoyal Mail Hotel. " to Mary Con way from J. J. Con way, Crown and Anchor. _ To VV. _H. Packer fioin VVm.. Drew, Flagstaff Hotel. . '' ToH. Bee dell from Patrick South,-I'erry Hotel. c< , To F. Michael Eiordan from Samuel Brown, Custom-houße Hotel. •' To H. Oram from Emile Simmelhayj Prince Arthur Hotel. To Emile Simmelhay from James Stewart, Provincial Hotel. . To Hugh Hood from Thos. Scrivener, Cottage of Content. This was all the business*!. ~■ ■■