POLICE COURT.-This day.

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3795, 28 August 1882, Page 2

POLICE COURT.- This day.

♦ (Before J. lE. Maodonald.Esq., 8.M.) DRUNiceKNBSB.-Fonir persona were fined for this offence. • .. . tt ■ Maodofjj.—James Macclnil", who waa under the dire innnenco of delirimn tromens, waa ro? innnded for'eight days. Unfit fob a uadkib,—Kobort Goodwin, a man of colour,was charged with a breaoh of the Merchants and Shipping jsct, by'continneii wilful dUobodlence on board the British ship Oooloen. on the 26th inst.—Prisoner said he had Vesa disobedient certainly In one point, bat he was not so black as ho was painted —Captain. Barclay said the crleoner, who had been very troublesome, positively refused to work. Ho wanted moco money. He was daly articled.His Worship considered tbat was the reorei—he wanted to leave the ship in order to Ret a higher rate of wages.—Prisoner said It was no euoh thing, the food was unfit for a darkle. (Laughter?.—The captain said prisoner had never before complained of the food.—Prisoner: Captain. I'm astonished to.see you stand there and tell a wilful lie -His Worship i Will you go back and do four work.—Prisoner i I'd rathe* do raven rears in Mount Eden.—Gna month's im. pri«onment with hard labour. TLls a)l the businees, ! '■ •' ■• >