POLICE COURT.—Saturday. [Before R. C. Barsiow, Esq, R M]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5230, 17 July 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

POLICE COU RT.— Saturday. [Before R. C. Barsiow, Esq , R M ]

Pkunkknm-^ - William Johnson, liohoit Evxis a<id Maiia Lillcy were punished as umuI t<ii tins offence. j\I prcii y\ i Murrivr. Acr — William Wctbury was cli irged with a bieach of the above Act l>y neglecting his duty on board the b-ig 'Speedy ' — Pnsoner pleaded guilty.-' mitain Biiice stated that the man had been .U»seut live days and another had beon emplo\ed in his place. He had incurred expenses amounting to £."> 12s through the behaviour of prisoner — The Bench ordered prisoner to be confined in Mount Kden for 12 weeks and to foifeit £3 12s out of the wages due to him. O i'.*>o e\e fjvvfti'vor — Tliomas L<\inaudcz, a youth, pleaded guilty to using obsceue language, and was lined 10-. and costs ; or, m default, thieo days' lmpiisonment. Dr-.ru irn Cmuuirv Act. — Edward Lysaght ap])eaied, on summons, charged with neglecting to suppoit his children in the lndiibtiial Home — Defendant stated his inability to pay — Sub-Inspector Pardy stated that prisoner could pay if he had the inclination — Defendant was oidered to pay 2s. each weekly tor his children, the first payment to be made on the 24th m=-t. JLvp.< fn"s. — William Daly and Robert Robertson were charged with the l.irreny of a pan of trouseis, a pair of boots, and other at titles fioni the bchoonei 'F.ivouiite,' albo aseige jumper fiom the brig 'Speedy,' the pioperty of John Westeiley. — Daly pleaded guilty ; Ivobei tson not guilty. — As there was not sufficient evidence against Robertson he was dischaiged ; Daly was sentenced to four months' nnpusonment, with hard labour, for the seveial offences. — This was all the business.