CHARGES AND OFFENCES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3740, 11 July 1883, Page 3

CHARGES AND OFFENCES.

AVellington, This day

Andrew Loasby, formerly an assistant in a chemist's shop hero, was fined £10 and costs in the R.M. Court yesterday for attempting to forward by the steamer Hauraki a bottle of nitric acid without marking its nature on the outside of the package. Charles Herbert Colbourn, clerk to the R.M. Court at Tapanui, was yesterday charged, that, being within the space of six months past a receiver as defined by the Public Revenues Act, 1878, he did neglect to furnish accounts ancl papers which he was required to mako or furnish under tho provisions of the said Act, and that he did neglect to send to the Receiver-General a copy of the cash book showing moneys received by him as such receiver from the Ist of Deocmbcr, 18S2, to the 28th of April, 1883. On application on behalf of the Government the case was postponed for a fortnight. Nelson, This day. At the Police Court yesterday Messrs Parmenter and Amos, a firm of undertakers, were charged on the information of the Collector of Customs with importing a package containing goods which did not correspond with the entry. From the evidence it appeared that the defendant ordered goods to the value of £0 from Messrs Schrieber and Schacfer, of Melbourne. They received an invoice amounting to £9 8s 3d, and gave it to a Customs agent to clear. Just before the agent went to clear the packages Mr Amos received a second invoice of goods amounting to £23. The Collector of Customs stated that owing to some doubts he had respecting the goods from Messrs Schrieber and Schaefer, he desired the importer to make a declaration. Mr Amos attended and denied that ho had a further invoice respecting- the goods. He made a declaration, and in reply to tho Collector of Customs offered to show all the papers ho hacl. The second invoice was then shown by Mr Amos, who explained that he imagined, as the second was marked "To Anau "and the first "Manapouri," that the shippers were sending two packages, and that tho goods in the second invoice had yet to arrive. On the package being opened the goods were found to correspond with the second invoice and were seized. The mitigated penalty of £25 was inflicted, with costs.