POLICE COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 66, 17 March 1894, Page 5

POLICE COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(BoforeMr H. W. Northcroft, S.M.)

Drunkenness.— Two first} offenders were 'discharged with a caution. Another, who ,P)e»ded nob guilty, wan fined ss, or 48 hours In default, after the evidence of the con* stables bad been taken. .By-law Cask.— James Letbam was warged with having on the 2nd of March Wmmitted a breach of the Harbour Board IMgulations by taking1 a vehicle down the Wnarf,'[add not remaining alongside the 'tttteaa long as it was on the wharf.-—Mr *•■> Bauma appeared for the- dofendBnt.—lOvidence was taken .aba. pre71OUS sitting of the Court.—His Worship, togMng judgment, said it was proved that Mart drawn by oue horse, owned by the jNew Zealand Express Company, was taken jww.iii the wharf by two men employed by «o9 Company, one of whom (bhd defendant) «d foe horse down the wharf.. When the iOßfl-haa boon taken off, the defendant *enb to collect his fare, leavine the horse in ChMfge bf the other man. He did not think "w that : constituted rf. breach .of \m-hw No. 98. Were he to 'hold:so, he •nonld have to hold.thab in a case wnere a lady and herhusband went down »W rf in a traP. tH*l»dy woaldthavo to *«k down the wharf leading'the horse, if 6 *»? intended thab her busjbandi. phould waver the trap ior a single instant.—Costa ( ""c not allowed. v. Destitute Persons Act.—John Martin ?k fc n Lb BPPe«f to answer the complaint jw« he had failed to contribate towards ir> support of his four children. After ■ "ea«ng the evidence, His Worship made wtj ; w for bhe payment of one poand per