LAW AND POLICE.
POLICE COURT NEWS. His Worship Mr. H. W. Biubaxt, S.M., presided at the Auckland Police Court yesterday, and dealt with the following cases:—
HARBOUR BOARD BY-LAWS. David Grainger, for leaving his cart unattended on llie wharf, was fined 10s, with costs £1 12s. The defendant said he thought he would "take it out, as there was nothing doing," and His Worship accordingly allowed an alternative of seven days in gaol. An information laid under the Harbour Board by-laws was also preferred against John Wil:iains, river, who pleaded guilty to trotting on the wharf. A fine of Is, with costs 11?, was indicted. Mr. Mcteagh prosecuted in each case, being instructed by the Auckland Harbour Board authorities. SHOPS AND SHOP ASSISTANTS AO P. William H. Essex pleaded gui'ty to four charges, laid by .Mr. Ferguson, inspector of Factories, charging him with having committed breaches of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act, 1894, by allowing his employees to work after twel\e o'clock on Saturday, October 29. A tine of 10s was imposed on each charge, and costs amounting to £6 Is were allowed. Annie Jane Cassells was a 1 so charged with failing to coirpjy with the same Act, by not closing her shop on Saturday afternoon. Mr. McVeagh, for the defendant, asked for a week's adjournment, which was granted, jfr. Tole, Crown Solicitor, raising no objection. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT. The case against Charles Cowan, in which he was charged with committing a breach of the Bankruntcy Act, was adjourned for a week. REMANDED. A middle-aged man named Alfred Ashenden, charged with l>eing an idle and disorderly person, in that he bad no lawful visib e means of support, was remanded till to-day, on the application of Detective Maddern. Bail was allowed in one surety of £5. Another man. Arthur Hinge, on a charge of stealing £1 15s from Edwin Donnelly, at Waihi, was remanded to Paeroa,' to appear mere at the Police Court on Monday next. Detective .Maddern applied for the remand, and Mr. Napier, for the defence, opposed the application. His Worship, however, decided to grant it, and allowed bail, the accused in £50, and two sureties of £20 each. INDECENCY. Henry Rogers pleaded not guilty to wilfully committing an act of indecency in Cus-tom-street. Mr. Brabant, having heard the evidence, recorded a conviction, and imposed a sentence of 14 days' gaol. DRUNKENNESS. Henry Barstow, convicted for the fourth time of drunkenness within a period of six months, was sentenced to seven days hard labour. One first offonder was fined £1» JJ default seven days' imprisonment, with hard labour, and another was discharged "with a caution.-
LAW AND POLICE.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10910, 15 November 1898, Page 3
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