COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 August 1929, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

* — I LLEG AiL IMPORTATION O.F OPIUM (iiy Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 13. A ship’s steward, Charles Dunstaii. was dhalrged in the Magistrate’s Court tins afternoon with Shaving imported prepared opium into the Dominion. He pleaded guiLty . 'L'ue Collector of Customs said Dunstan was on the Maheno, which arrived from. Sydney this morning. Just before midday lie was seen wall king up tlhe wharf wearing an overcoat among n number of waterside workers. Customs 0 dicer Galley heeamo suspicious of the man and suggested he had something umoealed under the coat. On .searchDunstan, file officer found: tins of. ,’uin of an approximate value of £ISO.! ' Dunstan was fined £125 and an order was made for the confiscation of the opium. Default was fixed ait three months ’ i mprisonment. CHARGE AGAINST A BARMAN. TIMAKiU, Aug. 13. As the result of a police raid this afternoon, William Alexander O’Connor, a barman, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court changed with carrying on the business, of a bookmaker. He was also charged with using the bar of a public hotel as a. common gaming house. John Vuleta was charged with using premises in High Street as a. common gaming house and was also charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker. The accused pleaded not guilty and cn the application of the police a remand till Saturday was granted. Bail was allowed in each oase. THEFTS FROM HOTEL. WELLINGTON, Aug. 14. Remarking that the thefts were] mean, and that the accused had not I thought of his good name nor of the possible effect of his wrongdoing, which might easilv cast suspicion on others, Mr. Barton, S.M., refused to suppress the name of Harry Eceles Pearce for thefts mainly from the Windsor Hotel, to the total value of £8 15s 6d, ancl committed him for sentence. May Keys, who received linen and other hotel articles from Pearce, knowing them to have been stolen, was admitted to probation for two years.