RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 98, 28 April 1881, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Dat. ' [Btfor* Mr. Edward Shaw, R.M.J BEGINNING LATE IN LIFE. Eliza"Williama, charged with being drunk in Pitt-street, smiled a plea of guilty. She ' was.arrested at 3 o'olook this morning. She said Bhe had been resident in Wellington for 20 years, and this was her first offence. Discharged with a caution. ALLEGED DRUNKENNESS. James Brooker, alias Knight, similarly charged, was also dismissed with a o&ution. CHARGE OF STEALING BOOTS. Samuel Faulkner, a yonng man, appeared to answer a oharge of having stolen two pairs of boots, value 325, the property of Edward Anderson, bootmaker. The evidenoe went to show that on the morning of the 21st instant Mr. Anderson's shop was entered from the back, and the boots in queation were miasing. The prisoner had formerly been employed in the shop as a packer. At this stage the case was adjourned till to-morrow, in order that the civil list might be commenced at the proper hour, viz., 11 o'olook.

__________________ ' Aaron Sherritt, who was shot by the Kelly gang seems to have been a most remarkable man. " He was," says Mr. Hare, " the most perfect bushman I ever met in my life, but he said he was nothing to Ned Kelly, though he could lick every other man about that country, including Byrne, whom he had fought at various times, and always beaten. Sherritt said that Ned would never be taken; the polioe would get all but him. I never could have believed that any man was able to undergo such hardships and show such endurance as Sherritt did. He would go for days and nights without sleep. He despised clothing, ' 1 remember, one bitter cold night his Bleeping out under a tree in his shirt sleeves, 'while all of us were wrapped up to the china in great-coats and furs. The man was like oast-iron, and yet, [ am told, he was only a sample of scores to be met with in the bush."