POLICE COURT.—Tuesday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4743, 6 November 1872, Page 3

POLICE COURT.—Tuesday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.]

1 Drunkenness. —J amea Bergin aad Samuel , Taylor, for this offence, were each fined in the usual manner. > - Insulting Language. —Mrs. Hart and >Mrs. Moran were charged by Annie McDonald With using insulting and provoking language (towards her. —The case by consent of coun- ■ sel w<is adjourned till the 13hh mat. > 1 Breach, of Customs Regulations, —A i native named Kereopa was charged with a breach of the Customs regulations by having iin his possession about 121b. tobacco without having paid duty on the came. —Detective Murphy deposed to having seen the prisoner on Saturday last in a tobacconist's shop at | Grahamstown. He was offering the tobacco ifor sale. He was unable to account for the ' tobacco being in his possession.—David Lunidon, Sub-collector of Customs at the Thames, ;deposed to having spoken to the prisoner, mho toldfhim that if' he had sold the tobacco fhe could have gone and got more. —The 1 ifurther hearing of, the case was remanded I till to-day (Wednesday).,

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