POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 283, 26 November 1908, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

Hlisdon, and W. FarreU, J * DKTTNKEiniESS. ing her prohibition order. She Bas i!! nianded to Saturday. ** THBEATEHIWG BEHAVIOUR. Two seamen created a disturbance lag* nigh, m Kanmgahape-road, whereby the peace was disturbed. One of them they only came off their ship at 8 o'doet They had a few words, a crowd collected! and they were locked up at 9 o'ctej fftTS fiDed - 5/ and «**■' to *SJ nourtf imprisonment. DISTUKBAWCE ON THE DEVO& James Gallagher and Patrick CaUa<*ex two firemen on the s.s. Devon, disorderly on their ship last neht- » much 5O that the police werHewrhL turned Patrick Gallagher further thr«£ ened the arresting, constable, liflanjr mn open razor in a threatening -amatn ani saying "I'll rip you!" The constaHe' waa not injured in any wa 7j or ewn touched. The captain of the ship said, thai tfm men -were brothers. If they were kept apart they would be all rigftt, bat together they were very questianaMe char acters It was difficult to say whicn aaa caused the trouble. Sergeant Hendw said that there were quite enough troi blesome people in New. Zealand withoot adding to them from visiting ships. En* was fined 10/ and costs, or 4S hours' in>. prisonment. BY-LAWS. Arthur Henry Armstrong penmHed his chimney in Upper Queettetreet last night to catch fire. Th, fire brigade turned out and extinguished it. A constable said the chimney was in a very dirty condition. A member of the fire brigade said that the chimney was not so very dirty; he had seen many a worse one. But Armstrong- had done m silly thing in putting a bundle of sh» T . ings on the fire. The defendant did not appear, and the Bench imposed a fin* of ss. and costs, 12s. Alfred White left his horse and cart standing in Karangahape-road for an unduly long thne yesterday. He did not appear. The evidence of the police nt to the effect that the vehicle was left for a quarter of an hour outside an hotel The Bench held that a quarter of as hour was not an unreasonable time, and dismissed- the information. Charles Edgar Fearon failed to appeu in answer to a charge of driving a horse ar.a cart round the corner of Ponsonby and Karangahape roads at other than a walking pace. He was fined 5/- and costs, 7s.