CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 6259, 7 April 1883, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, April 7.

(Before J. Logan, Esq., J.P., and R. Ohlsholm, Esq., J.P.)

Drunkenness, For this offence Honora Lynch was fined ss, In default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment j Rowland Thomas Dossett, 60s or seven days’; Mary Fraser alias Beany, 20s, or forty-eight hours’; and John French and Elizabeth Steele , each 10s or forty-eight hours’. William Higgins Htmng, who was found drunk at the railway station, was fined 20s, In default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment; and Jemima Duncan, who had an additional charge of behaving in a riotous manner In Jetty street, was fined 20s, with an alternative of seven days’ imprisonment. B shack of the Pbaob. — Duncan Gamer on pleaded guilty to a charge of creating a breach of the peace in Princes street on the 6th inst. — Constable O’Sullivan deposed that yesterday evening he saw the accused strike a tramway conductor, an I afterwards Mr Faulkner, tho manager, who remonstrated with him.—njohn Shepherd, tramway conductor, deposed that the accused got into a car at Howe sir eet, and as ho was using obscene language witness made him get out at the Glasgow Pie House. He struck witness there, and following the car up to the terminus knocked him down as he was coming out of the office. He afterwards struck Mr Faulkner. Hugh Faulkner, manager of the horse department of the City tramway system, gave corroborative evidence. The accused pleaded that he was drunk, and had no recollection of what he did, — The Bench Inflicted a fine of LB, In default fourteen days’ Imprisonment. (Before B. H. Oarew, Esq., R.M.) Thieving Juveniles.— -John Diggs (8), James Diggs (7), John Stewart (8), Bernard Stewa/rt (7), and John Dobie (6) pleaded guilty to stealing, on the 24th ult., one dozen goblet glasses of the value of 10s, the property of James Samson. The three last-mentioned were discharged. The other two, who it was represented by the police were being very badly brought up, were committed to the Industrial School until they attained the age of fifteen,

THE GOVERNOR AT AUCKLAND.

The Governor met with an enthusiastic welcome at Auckland yesterday. Replying to the civic address, His Excellency said: “ Travelling about as I have been for some time past in different parts of New Zealand, it has been my good fortune to receive many addresses—so many, indeed, that I find very often one’s vocabulary almost exhausted in varying the expressions that are suitable to the occasion. lam reminded of an address that was once, I am told, presented by a distinguished major of a Scotch regiment to the colonel who was about to leave that corps. They were neither of them gifted in speech, and on the occasion of the departure of the colonel, who was to be presented with a fine piece of plate, it was the major who was deputed to present it. Not being up in oratory, however, he stood up and said ‘ Colonel, there’s the jug ”; upon which the colonel said, with an equally diffuse oratory, “ Aye, major, and is that the jug?”—(Laughter.) 1 should myself much like to adopt that brevity of language on some occasions 5 but on an occasion like this, gentlemen, my first appearance in Auckland, I feci that I cannot treat an address of the sort which you have presented to me as a mere matter of conventional sentiment. I look upon it as coming from a body of gentlemen representing the city that I see before me j as an address that breathes loyalty to Her Majesty—(hear, hear)— loyalty to a Queen who reigns over the greatest empire that the world has ever seen; loyalty to a Queen who lives in the devotion of her subjects, and who is the symbol of a constitutional monarchy such as the world has never seen equalled, and one under which you, gentlemen, who are New Zealanders, are able with perfect freedom to develop your resources and manage your affairs.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will not detain you any longer here, for I see that the crowd are waiting. On behalf, then, of Lady Jervois and myself, I beg to thank you for the very kind and flattering welcome you have given us, and I can assure you that it will be a great pleasure to me during the time I am in New Zealand to visit this splendid city of Auckland."— (Loud cheers.) An undress lovde in the afternoon was well attended. Te Wetere, Wiwini (Wahanni’s brother), Ngahaura, Te Haere (who was assaulted when with Mr Hursthouso’s party), and other Ngatimaniapoto chiefs had an interview with the Governor, accompanied by the Hon. Mr Bryce. The chiefs welcomed the Governor. His Excellency expressed his pleasure attheNgatimaniapotos assisting Mr Bryco in opening up the country and maintaining order.