WAIKATO NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 18, 22 January 1895, Page 8

WAIKATO NOTES.

BREAKING AND' ENTERING CASE.

• GOOD HARVESTING WEATHER. i{(BY TEiEGKAfH,— OWN COBRBSPONDENT.)

; • / Hamilton1; this day. iJbtltt Suilth :and Sarry S(ibiri3bn Appeared at the Courb charged with larceny from'a dwelling and also breaking and entering. ■Mr W. J. Napier, wbo appeared ■ foe .Smith, ( jgrfei^.#" "eefc-tbV Accused dealb with summarily, put mailed, the value- of the goods stolen being proved ab aboub' £18 to £20. '"Hi then tried to break down the evidence re breaking and entering, but the'justices committed both prisoners for trial, fixing ;bail at themselves "in £10.0 each, and two sureties of £50 each. The bail was forthcoming in the case; of SmUhebut nob for Bobinaon, who, Sir Napier 'stated,, was a .yeceub arrival from Sydney/about whom He ■ifnew very little.' Smith'^as"' stated to be qtjly ijixfeen yearß-of age.bub h© lookatulfy 19 or-; 20; Robinson stated his age as twents-tbree. When arre9ted prisoners bad no swag but a suit of clothes each, and had no'money. The weather has been splendid for some time for harvesting, and crops are being got in all over the district. In: spite of caterpillars, the oat crops are turning out well, some being exceptionally heavy. The potato crop, too, is turning out well.