POLICE COURT—THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 297, 14 December 1892, Page 4

POLICE COURT—THIS DAY.

(Before Messrs John Gordon and J. M. Lennox, Justices.) i D_u»Kß!ra_3s.-For this offe_ce, Agnes Austin was fined 10s or 7 days' hard labours James Kennedy, 5s or 24 hoars' imprisonment; and two firsb offender* ss, each. Maintenance CASE.-George Harper was charged with disobeying fta order of tha Resident Magistrate's Court at Wellington for the maintenance of his wife and family. —Accused Btated that he.had got work bo go bo m. the country, and was quite willing to send for his wife and family when he had earned sufficient money. Bail was allowed him in m for himself and two sureties of £5 each.

Stowaway .rom Stdset. - David White,; ahas Hanson,, was, charged with a breach of tho Shipping Act by travelling on the s.s. Tarawera on her voyage from Sydney to Auckland without having previoualy paid his fare, £2 _■* » T lth intenfc to av°W payment thereof Accused, a young man, pleaded guilty, but said in extenuation of hia offenca that things were so bad in Sydney and Melbourne bhab he could geb no work, and he wanted t oj get back to Auckland, where he belonged, and where he had a chance of work in a wool store. He was fined 20s and ordered to pay the passage money and costs, or, in default, t« go to Mount Eden for ona tssofctjk.