POLICE COURT.—Friday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 229, 6 August 1864, Page 4

POLICE COURT.—Friday.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., K.M.)

' DRUNKARDS. I John Johnston and John Guilford wore fined '>o.s and coats, or, in deiault, 48 hours imprisonment with hard labour. ' Solomon 11. Levy did not appc.ir to answer- to his buil; bail forfeited. BREACH 0V TIIE LICENSING ACT. Isaac Waters, a boarding house keeper, was charged with a breach of the 3rd clause of tho Licensing Act, in supplying two glasses of ale contrary to its provisions. lho defendant pleaded guilty. M lr ' uver j ci ff e > wll ° appeared for the defendant, said that this was a case similar to one recently before the Court, in which tho defendant was convicted. Beforo tho judgment of tho Bench in that case, lodging house keepers generally wore under tho impression that thoy were entitled to supply liquor when required by lodgers. Had the dofondant been aware that ho was committing a breach of the Act, tie certainly would not have supplied tho liquor, and T r ,y\ a3 * ls , desire to keep a well conducted house. tie trusted that if tho dofondant paid tho costs, tho Commissioner of Toliee would not press the chaise in this case, which he believed would be sullicient to actor others. w J h r£T ( f ioner c? f PolicU Rflid t] » lt the offence Committed on Sunday morning, at half-past

3 o'clock. The sergeant on duty informed him that the defendant's house had been very disorderly all night, and upon going in he (the Commissioner) found the place was more like a tap-room than anything else. The defendant certainly appeared to be unconscious of having done anything wromr, as. upon being spoken to, ho pointed to his lodging house license, issued by the City Board. His Worship remarked that the defendant appeared much too young to hold such a license, as it required a person of age, character, and experience, to keep a house of this description. Sir. Beveridgo said the City Board appeared to have no alternative in this matter. His "Worship said the Court would n«sunie that this was a parallel case with that referred to by Mr. Beveridge, and would only inflict a penalty of £o and costs, hut hereafter tho full penalty of .£•)0 would be enforced, and no excuse of ignorance would be allowed, as tippling in lodging houses must be prevented, and the publicans, who paid a heavy sum for a license, protected. ltomiEKV ox liOAitn the ' kella mauy.' The prisoners Saville, Jones, and Lcary, charged with stealing a gold watch and other articles from this vessel, woro brought up on remand. Upon boing questioned as to whether they had anything to say to the charge, the prisoner Saville requested that Sergeant Evers might be placed in the witness-box, as ho wished to put a few questions to him. Sergeant Evers : On Wednesday last you called at the Police guard-rrm, drunk, and told mo you had given your waicli to some person in Bacon's publi" house, who refused to give it up. Hou did not tell me it was a silver watch. I asked von how you came to give it to him ; yon said you gave it him to sell. I then told you the police could not interfere in the matter. X did not tell Mr. Naughton that you described the watch as a silver one. The prisoners .Tones and Saville were fully committed to take their trial at tho next sitting of the Supreme Court. There being no evidence againat the prisoner Lcary he.was discharged. ESCAI'E FROM GAOL. John Reilly, charged on May ISth, ISfi t, with stealing from the ketch ' Corio' a bag of clothing and some money—total value £80, the properiv of James Lllovd, tried at the last session of the Supreme Court, and aentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour, escaped from the Mount Eden Stockade on the loth of July last, was apprehended on Thursday night, between 12 and 1 o'clock, by Constable Merrigan, in Queen-street. The prisoner was returned to the Mount Eden gaol to await his trial at tho next sitting of tho Supreme Court, for prison-breach.