LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9711, 5 January 1895, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

POLICE COURT.— [Before Messrs. P. Cheal and J. Callnan, J.P.'s.] Drunkenness. —For this offence, a young man named John. Dunn was fined £3, or, in default, seven days' imprisonment with hard labour. One first offender was discharged with a caution. Alleged Breaking and Entering.Two young men, named James Slade and Thomas Leonard Moylan, were remanded for a week on a charge of having feloniously broken into the Primitive Methodist Chapel, situated in Upper Pitt-street, and stolen therefrom provisions to the value of £1 ss. Bail was granted, accused in their own recognisances of £10, and two sureties of £10. Alleged Arson.—A middle-aged man, named John Thomas Potter, was charged with having, on the 6th December, at Komokorau, wilfully set fire to a certain dwelling then in his occupation, the property of Her Majesty the Queen. On the application of Serneant Gamble, the accused was remanded to Ngaruawahia, to appear there next Wednesday. Alleged Assault.—Six young men.named respectively Simon Miller, Alfred Clune, Edmund Lionel Wilson, Thomas W. Davis, Thomas Charles Webster, and Cornelius Brown, appeared on remand to answer a charge of having, on the 27th December, violently assaulted one James Dooley, and robbed him of a pocket-book conaining 16 £1 notes, ana sundry papers Mr. Baume appeared on behalf of Davis and Webster, and Mr. O'Meagher for the accused Brown. Mr. Baume said he understood that it was the intention of Sergeant Gamble to ask for it remand. He strenuously objected to anything of the kind. The police sheet showed nothing agaiust his clients, and he wanted to hear some evidence before a further remand was granted. Sergeant Gamble asked for an adjournment of the case until next. Wednesday. Mr. O'Meagher said he had no objection to a remand, but he thought that Brown should be allowed bail on his own recognisances, as he had voluntarily given himself up to the police hearing that a warrant was out for his arrest. The Bench granted Sergeant Gamble's application. Alleged Assault. elderly woman named Ann Perry was fined 20s and costs for assaulting Mary Ann Frances Sylva. Mr. Brassey appeared for the informant.