POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13846, 4 September 1908, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

A BELLICOSE MAORI. At the Police Court yesterday before Sir. Dyer, S.M., a native, who was charged with assaulting two Maoris, denied any knowledge of the affair. According to the police the accused had run amuck, and expressed a willingness to fight all and sundry. He was fined £1 and costs, 6s, The same man admitted the theft of a pair of boots from Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewen's warehouse, where he had been employed for 18 months. He took the boots to a second-hand dealer in Hob-son-street, and sold them for Bs, asking the " dealer to hold them until he could buy them back. Accused, for whom Mr. Pullen appeared, was given a good character by the head of one of the departments of the firm, and he was remanded until Monday for the probation officer's report. WORKING ON SUNDAY. Two Celestials, Qnong Yet and Quong Ching, two "bosses" in a market garden, were jointly charged with working at their trade at West Tamaki on Sunday. , Both admitted the offence, Quong Yet stating, as an extenuating circumstance, , that he saw several Europeans working, and he thought he could do likewise. The magistrate, through the interpreter, pointed out" that Sunday was the sacred day of the land, and that working on that day was breaking the law. A fine of 10s each was imposed, with costs 7s. UNDER A DELUSION. , .;,■ Sophia Ellis was ; charged on the information of Martha Brown with having ast saulted . her on August 18, It was asked that defendant should be bound oyer to keep the peace. . The evidence showed that on two occasions, when the accused met Mrs. Brown in the street, she committed an assault, scratching complainant's face and tearing her hat to pieces. The accused was under the mistaken impression that complainant was making advances to her husband, even to the extent of entering her house through a window during the night. On entering the box defendant made the most extravagant allegations against Mrs. Brown, and addressed several objectionable epithets to her for which she was threatened with being committed, for contempt by the magistrate. <•.,'.<::■; . '.. • ~ Defendant was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months, in her own recognisance of £50 and one surety of £25. She was. also ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, amounting to £1 Bs. BY-LAW CASES. Henry Buckley, for not keeping a stack of building material on the street adequately ' lighted''at night, was fined £1 and costs, 7s. John Higgs admitted that he had allow- | ed several head of cattle to wander in a public street, and was fined 10s' : and Costs, , . ls - - ~; , .. ; ■ ... . 'r\ 3,-. '. ":.' ■ ■•:•'. ■■•"v.':- - :