POLICE NEWS.-Monday. (Before Thomas Beckham, Esq, R.M.) Unknown

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVIII, Issue 1632, 14 October 1862, Page 3

PO LI CE NEWS.- Monday. (Before Thomas Beckham, Esq, R.M.) Unknown

Jo^t i ih Kodshaw, tiipc nianufaetiuei, Giey stieet. was summoned by the Commissioner of Police for ennyi')-,' on .1 noisome tiade in tho suil sticot, by boiling down bom s, oflal, \o , oontiaiyto the juovi sions of the Municipal Polite Act. The examination h.ul bren lenundcd fiom Fuday, to await his WoishipV decision as to tho necessity of the Act being ptoved. Mi. Bioolvfuld \v>is foi tho piosocution and Mr. Meiiun.ui for dofeiulant M>. Meiiini.in said 1b was quite clear Mr TUnoL iiold had t.uloil to piovt his cisc by uot piovmg tho act under which the liitoiin ition brought. The act of the (ioneial Assembly, which he would lcfei to, pointed out tlie necessity and the mode of piovni" pioviuci.il acts bctoie couiti The act had nevei been 111; Mr Biooklield hnnselt liad admitted that in speaking to his Woi-lup he was without ,1 copy : and not n, woul appealed upon the evidence to show undoi what paituulai clause the lnfoinntion had been laid The failme of the c ise was so cleii that it was lealiy unnecessaiy foi him to aigue at any length. Mi. BlooK held .said the act was 111 the possession of the comt all the tune the case was pioceeding; to piove it was theiofoie unnecessaiy. His "Woislup lead the seventh clause of an act to facilitate the taking of eudence upon ceitain offici il and othci documents, 18f>(); and said attei the absence ol ill notice of the act upon the evidence, and upon which tlie decision ot the I'ouit must, oh vmuslj In gnen, he was afi aid tho ease must fall to the giound Novel thcle^s the evidence showed that the dpfeudant had been guilty of a guevous nuisance, and which was a houico of great annoy auce to las

neighbour The an was impiegnated to the gieab chseonifoit and annoyance of theneighbomhood ; and althoiigh defendant had escaped the infliction of ,1 fine thiough Die f ,"ihire of the case, it m as to be hoped that lie would not take advantage of that, but would endeavour to lenmvo the nuisance. The case would be dismissal. Dismissed accoidmgly. Thl Hhei p Aci. » James Badley -was summoned by Fiancis Chailes, Lewis, inspector of shue|>, foi being guilty of a breach ot tlic 21st clause of the Sheep Act, by (hiving diseased (scabby) sheep upon the Otahuhu load, on Wednesday, and the defendant pleaded guilty. Mr Bi'ooldield, on behalf of the inspector, stated that this was the fiist oflence, ,uul ,i heavy penalty was not sought. The ias« was biought as a warning to otlieis who might be induced to infringe the piovisions of the Act Jhs Wojslup said th( defendant had been guilty upon his own confession of a veiy senous offence, and the insppctoi had acted vciy \wsely in taking immediate steps to bung the ease forwaid as a warning to otlieis Tlio K'sult of such a course of piocoduic by Ilie defendant m.is most dangeious; aud the "21st clause ot the Act was vciy explicit as to the means to bo taken to ledicss such conduct. It enacted that . '• If anj peison shall, without having obtained such pel mission in wilting as afoiesaul, duve or conduct, or sufler to bo duven oi (onducted, any sheep infected with the said disease, U|ion any highway, oi upon any lands not in the possession ot the on net of such sheep, evciy such poison shall forfeit and pay for evciy such ollcncc, any sum not less than .£5, or moie than £10(1- pio\id<d always, that nothing heiein contained shall pi event any sheep from being conveyed in co\eicd vehicles on any highway, or upon, oi over anj lands not being, as aforesaid in the possession of the ownei of such sheep : Provideel also, that it shall be lawful foi .my pei-,011 upon whose land any such sheop aic ticspassing to leinove the same theiefiom. and to duveor conduct them to the place of abode of the ownci theieof, or to such place as the ounci shall dwell, 01 to the place fjoin whence sueli sheep may ha\e stiayed, oi to some public pound ' He would bo fined £10 and cobts, £1 Is. DKUMvAItDs' TMrLLIfil-NCE. Jleniy M.insull, foi being diunk in the jmblic stieetson Saturday — this being his second offence within the last tlnee months— Mas oidcied to pay a line of IDs. and costs , 111 default, to be imprisoned 48 hoius with haul Jaboui.