COROMANDEL POLICE COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 539, 4 August 1865, Page 5

COROMANDEL POLICE COURT.

S vi: n\ v. .1 r i.v 1 (Before H- ("It:i i.a.vii>;\ Kstp, J.l*) UAi.l.Ai'r: V. CAUTKi: vi i kuinl;. Commit tod for trial. The information against this prisoner wa? for '' v iit:«rini r , <«i>i ><*.-:nami passing oil'a certain note Tor the Mini of Jl~> on llio Colonial Hank of Is*ip\ the said note lvarira* tTic? number 1 C>,os^>/' &e., v.ilii intent to defraud one Donald jlclYee. W A !.LA 0 !•: V. r.AI; 1: K7 T. The information against tin* prisoner in this case was for " feloniously uttering, disposing, and passing oil'a eertnin note to one Araru, an aboriginal native of New Zealand—to wit, a note on the Colonial Jhink <if Issue"—for 11 io siru of I'o, lie tlie said John flarr.-tt well knowing the ?uid note to be valueless, eontrarv tlie statute in that ea i; e made and provided. KvHencr wa* taken in this and the prisoner was remanded till liHh Juiy for Cart her testimony. Jri.v l'J. The prisoner Barrett was again remanded till 22nd July. W.V LACK V. l-KANk'UAU. Charles Frankham wa- charged with, on or about tliolOihdav > ; f April, at C'oromandel, felonimslv, knowingly. and without lawful excuse, having in his «'uM"dy and possession a certain note for th - sum of I'"). and having the words " Colo:.ial l.ank of Issue," vi-iMe itt the =üb* tance of :hc paper, t" f .he stataio. >Ve.

(Vmstalil- Vncles ;i sk 1 f»r a rennn-1 in this (-oc. in cici-cqncncc of the unavoidable absence of the iV. :iiai;ll ■■ ■ 1 till the ''2ml <•!' Julv, pri-or.er 1" be hi-. :it up in the mean time should the pt'osceiUor it turn. On th ■ -Oth bMh tie remanded pvisonet's were i.r.-iiiii.t up l't.r linal c\a-ninai ion. '(ic charge ncain-t John ISanvtt, for uttering, was tile (ir~t proceeded with. Mr. Ki"'lh said that he would appear for the pri at this stage. I"\i-i- ace was tiiken, a'.d the fV.url faid that IK> sha low "!' a fe'.oni-.us int•";t ha 1 b-cn shown, ft would therefore discharge the pri-oner, ami would a:i: i ■ ~?ihi ,i a.- t • whom made cm pa tiio:, s of. ! h" I'-en t ceil' billed it ■> r.-maiks iiv saving that evident iv H-.rr-tl had , n'.-l throng!, 1 .Vel'ye.:, \v he h.,.1.1 tic. evid. Uee e „id „(.t lf.lVe but c'.e.'Uia'ed in the rem u-ks el'tie. Court. In tact one of tic wit in s.-es tor the pioseiuiion entirely e::or,. rat- d the il" n pti.-encr from anything like a tVlonions intent. the prisoner I'V aik:i:n was next brought up. Tiii- evi.leric" was gone into and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. 'l'iic informant in the first case was one James Mel!r. _air, and although lie laid information, he showed the greatest disinclination t p prosei ute ; on the day that the trial was to have come on it was found tb'.t ]ie had gone to town, an I then constable Wallace took the matter in hand. The Court com-m-nted on tie- behaviour of the first imformant,

w'aii-. great dislike to have anything to do with the matter appeared to be that it would put him to siieh great" inconvenience: if the general public allowed crime to run rampant for a like cause, there would be few prosecutions and a fearful quantity of crime. The way coil-table Wallace conducted the

car-- throughout U des«Tvim: of every praise ; he displayed tin* i;re iter-t caution, and has succeeded so far in bringing offenders to jcsticv. ' 'f course one due? not know wh.it a jury will think of these ease*, but, badly .-upplied as is our district, with constabulary, thev do their duly under uveal disadvantages very creditably. Constable Wallace has in many ca=es shown himself to be a shrewd. intelligent man, and whom it is to be expected will hoi 1 a higher position | ere long, in our police f-rce. Ti is to trusted that i now that our '-onlsmbles have soown the example in I tracing some of those ''missing Bank* of Issue notes, ■ that other discoveries of the kind will take place.