POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 6 March 1900, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

At the Police Court to-day William Reilly was fined 10/ or 48 hours for drunkenness, and a fli^st offending "drunk" was convicted and discharged.

Alfred Richard Coates was convicted of deserting from H.M.S. Royalist, and was order to be put aboard the first warship to arrive in port.

Win. Rogers, charged with assaulting Joseph Peters so as to cause actual bodily harm—a broken nose—was remanded till next Monday.

James Henderson was charged with having cruelly tortured a pigeon by shooting at and wounding it.—Mr Theo. Cooper appeared for the S.P. C.A., who prosecuted, and Mr Timks for the defence. —Henry Wilding, president of the Society, said he attended a pigeon shooting match at Potter's Paddock, and saw defendant fire and hit a bird. Undoubtedly the bird was wounded and suffered pain. Of all the birds liberated that afternoon only half a dozen gave, what would be called good sport—thas was, flew at all well. The majority of them simply refused to rise, and a man had to throw sticks and clods at them to shift them. Some were so tame that they could be caught by hand.—-Constable Ramsay gave corl'oborative evidence, and the case was then adjourned for a week to enable the defence to bring a witness from the Thames.