POLICE COURT.—Saturday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., District judge.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5412, 28 December 1874, Page 5 (Supplement)

POLICE COURT.— Saturday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., District judge.]

Dbunkenni .ss. — L'utuck Boj'le, John Morris, Mary Fagan, Thomas Smyh, Richard Gordon, Arthui Gannon, John Gem qe, and Ed waul Smith were each fined It)*., with the option of eondouing then ofleuce3 with imprisonment. Vagkancy — Dennis Dannagher, charged under this Act, was fined 40a., or 4S hours' impnsoumonfc. — Win. Liverty and William McCallinau \\e>-e remanded uutil this (Mond.i} ) moruiug. A^svult. — John Diumprood was charged with assaulting Colin Mclutosh, and also reraand-d until to-day. Lujckny. — Arthur Gannon, charged with purloining a pint measure, value 4s Gd., the property of Michael Corcoran ; and William Hornby, charged with the lircenyof a clojk, value 303.. from the cutter ' Elizabeth.' were each reminded until this moruiug. William Stone, who had been twice remanded on suspicion of having stolen a saddle, was further remanded until the 2nd pioxuno A^vulting thkPolici: —Charles Kemp, James Lewis, .JohuStentiford, William Pa^e, Thomas Cullinoy, James Cotter, William Kuilkuer, Wi ham Murraj', and Ilcmv Burn-., seamen belonging to HMS ' Rosario,' were charged with druukenness, liofous and disorderly condu-jt, and assaulting the police in the execution of their duty on Christmas Eve. — The prisoners remanded until the Monday following, butwere subsequently sent on bo.ird the 'Rimaiio, 1 to be dealt witli bythenav.il authorities, the constjihlos to ho lndcmuilicd for the injury done to then uniform Inciting to Violkvop. — James Conley, a youth, was charged with inciting the seamen of tho ' Rosano' to aasault the police on Christ'u.13 Eve, and vverj remanded until Monday uiornuicr

Leave a bibulous Moniau .Uone foi 1 aiding the means for a clunk. The Litest instance come?) to us from BalLu.it A snake, some three feet in length, had been killed by some wood-cutters nnd thrown across a tencc, where it was espied by Mrs. F. , v ho was at once struck with a happy thought Her lett arm was bound up in a handkerchief, and securing the dead body of the \enomous reptile, she rushed into Beaufort, dcsciilnng Jiow she had beeu bitten but had succeeded in despatching the snake. Brandy was at once administered freely as the usual antidote, and this was reneated at so many ho 1 els in the place that Mrs. F. at length subsided by the wayside oblivious to e\ erj - thing. When the trick was discoveied general indignation was expressed by those who had so readily administered the "antidote."