POLICE COURT.— Wednesday.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3699, 27 May 1869, Page 3

POLICE COURT.— Wednesday.

(Before H. D. Morpeth, Esq , and A. \V. East, Esq , J.P.s ) ' Drunkenness. — George Green, Michael Ryan, Jane Goldsmith, and Jame? McFarlane were charged with this offence, and punished in the usual manner, William Swanson, charged with a similar offencp, made no appearance, and bis bail wa? declared forfeited. Breach of Merchant Seamen's Act, 1854. — Richard Ventriea was brought up charged with a breach of this Act iv his having left the ship 'Maori' without leave. Constable Will stated that the prisoner liad left the aliip * Maori' and kept out of the way till some time had elapsed, and the vepsel had sailed. On making his appearance he had been apprehended ou a warrant. There being no person to prosecute, the name of Richard Matthews, on whose information the charge had byeu laid, was called three times, and the prisoner was forthwith digcharged. -J

To Whom xr u\Y Coxokrw.— -The Sacramento Record contains tho following notice, which was handed in for publication :— " Notice ia hereby given to the mat!, whoever he may be, or the woman, whoever she may be, that stole two flannel ehirls from the rear of a house at Tenth aad C strata a few nights ago, greeting; You are hereby notified that you be and appear, s >i-l and body, personally and not by proxy, at the office of some respectable physician, and then and there to be promptly and thoroughly vaccinated. The reason lot this coromaud ia, that said shirts had just been removed from' the body of a man that had the small-pox. By order of the convalescent who lost the Bhirts. The thief bad better obey in this instance,''