POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 442, 13 April 1865, Page 5

POLICE COURT.— Wednesday.

(Before W. R. Home. Esq., J.P., J. S. Macfarlane, Esq., J.P., and — Kidd, Esq., .J.P.) 1 DKVNKAEDS. WilliamCostello,'AlbertHeiar.EdwardTho-as,and Charles McEwan, for their first offenc.-, wore each fined 203. and the costs, or 48 hours hard labour; John Mulhollnnd, for his third, and Mary Robinson, for hc-r fifth offence, were sent to gaol for nine days. HHEACII or TUB MVXICIPAIi POLICE ACT. John Francis Russell was charged by Constable Clarke with a breach of the above Act, by leaving his horse and cart standing in a public thoroughfare in I'urnoll without any one to take charge of the same. He plended guilty, and said he committed the breach in ignorances of the Act. Fined 10e. and costs. I EMRE/.ZIiING CARGO. i Charles Brown was charged by Captain Cornweli, I ship Pegasus, with having embezzled 1 bottle of ale, value Is. 6d., being part of the cargo of that ship. j Prisoner pleaded not guilty. j Captain Cornwell deposed : Prisoner is un articled j eeainan on board my ship. Yesterday morning he was brought before me by the chief omcer, and searched in my presence, when the bottle of alo now produced was found upon him ; it was eocreted in hie trousers. That bottle of alo is a portion of the ship's cargo, and its value is Iβ. 6d. Upon making search a cask was discovered broached, and several bottles had been abstracted from it, and this bottle corresponds with those now in the cask. Prisoner : I want to pay for tho bottle. I did not steal it, I found it lying in the 'tween decks. Sentenced to four -weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. THREATENING LANGCAGE. James Dowling alias Forest wae chargod with using threatening language to one George Taylor, by threatening to shoot him, &c. Mr. Wjiin appeared for the defendant, and admitted the chirgo. Tho Bench ordered him to find two suroties of £150 each, an/i himself in £200, to keep the peace for three months. IIOVSB OF ILL-FAMK. Ann Fitzaimona, Bridgett Conc'ron, Margaret Cooper, Richard "Wilson, and Catherine Hurray, pleaded guilty to being maintainere of a common bawdy. Orderod, each to find snretiea 0. , ' £30, to be of ' I good Miaviour for six moatttf.

IARCEMT. •,-James Henderson was charged with having stolen of fowlH from the faim of Mr. Edward Allen, situate at Mount Albert. He pleaded not guilty. TCdward Allen deposed: lam a fanner residing at. Mount Albert. On Monday morning last I discovered that the cow-shed door had been removed, the fowlhouso entered, and u number of fowls taken away— from 12 to 16. From information received, I wont to tho police oiiico this morning, and identified the fowls now produced, as my property ; their value ie about 15s. Sergeant Molly, Armed Police, deposed to apprehending the prisoner in Quecn-streot, with a number of fowls in his possession, of how ho got which he could give no satisfactory account. Ordered to bo imprieonod for two months with hard labour. UKBBUTKU. Joseph McDowell, pleaded guilty to beiug a deser" tor from the 65th regiment, and was ordered to bo handed over to tbo military authorities.