HASTINGS R.M.COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7719, 16 April 1887, Page 3

HASTINGS R.M. COURT.

k ,,.. -*(Pnbl£ OUfi 'OWN : COftRESPONDENT). ' — PkhjaV; April ig, --; -■ (Before. Messrs Birch and M'Leod, J.P.'s-) STKAY CATTLE. M. C. Taylor, for allowing a horse to •stray, was fined 10s and costs.. , George Ellis, charged with the like offence, was ; '•dismissed with a caution. J. J. Blackburn, allowing a cow, ,to: stray ; fined 10s v and costs 7s. . Joseph Wyatt, allowing rfonf horses tb'stray ; fined 15s and costs 7s,' . "Williani .Gigg, allowing a horse to stray ; fined ;.10s, and costs 75., , George' Sands; the like*:' offence ;';fined ios and costs 75.- I F. T>. Luckie, similarly ■.charged, pleaded thqt'/tho horse was tiedjup but,' broke, loose; fined 10s and costs 105., "".'•;' '.', "'] ■'•'■' ' " :l STEALING A'PIPE,' ''■ l' • '•■ Alick Evan M'Gregor Was charged with stealing. a, nseerschaum pipe value 255, the property .of Henry Anseil. The prosecutor stated that on the 1 3th inst., before going to Napier, lie spoke to liis wife about threo pipes left for repair. Oil returning' in' the. evening he found, only two pipes instead of ,' three iii'the 1 box. Witness identified the pipe"'produced'by; Constable Pickering: • It' was r. worth, alipdt 255... „ .,',',; ■'",. : „,. ",/ .! '", •J.li-s-;ATiselL' slated that- she saw, 'the.' ■prisoner 'in : her shop 'on the -18th inst. v- : Constable. Wilson .stated that on the" Utiflnsi.-; in' c'6hsequj3nee'6f-i v f o ™>a'ti6n'. received, ho went to'Tonioana' pair and saw accused there. :; Called him aside and sai^l, : " l-want that pipe which you toolc out of Ansell's sliop yesterday. Accused replied '"'Hfe're it is," arid'Ravß Up the pipe. Witness arrested him. Since the prisoner, had been" in" Hastings there" lia'dlJeen" many cases of petty larceny of wliich he Was suspected. Witness believed that in one case the matter had becu " squared " with the prisoner. ': Constable Pickering stated that -there liad been a previous, conviction^ and asked the Bench not:' to deal with the case as a trivial one, as the prisoner had given the police a great deal of trouble, feeing a, convicted '/clever thief." Tho, prisoner was sentenced to one month's" imprisonment -with hard labor. Prisoner- naively urged that "ho hadnever done any hard work," but the Bench did not alter this part of his, sentence..;, (Perhaps' they thought that it was now- time' that lie bogaii.— Ypuit'OwN.) ,