POLICE COURT.—Saturday. [Before T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.] DRUNKENESS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2711, 26 March 1866, Page 5

POLICE COURT.— Saturday. [Before T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.] DRUNKENESS.

Ellis JoneB, Robert Tindall, Stephen Herod, John Mingles, William Flood, and William Thompson were mulcted in the usual penalty or alternative for this offence.

FOBGING i. CHEQUE. William L. Morrence was brought up charged by J. Williams, of Onehunga, with forging and uttering a cheque upon the Bank of New South Wales for- £7 15s., purporting to be drawn by Capt. McPherson, Paymaster, Commissariat Transport Corps. His Worship said he could not understand' why the public should be so easily gulled, notwithstanding the frequent notices in the paper and warnings from the Bench. He really felt that the public deserved to lose their money, if, they were so easily taken in. With the number of , idle people they had around them, cases of this nature might be expected* to increase, but they j were greatly accelerated by the easiness ; with which aueh cheques were - taken, and he could look upon it in no other light than as an encouragement to the crime. The prisoner was remanded until Wednesi day, having only been apprehended during the i morning.'

riiBCBinr. John Smith pleaded guilty to stealing from Battray's boarding-house, in West Queen-street, three shirts, value £1, the property of Peter White, and was sent to gaol for three months, with hard labour.