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New Zealand Mail, Issue 674, 30 January 1885, Page 22

The business at the Resident Magistrate’s* Court yesterday week wa« very light. A drunkard (first offender) was fiued ss. The only other case was a charge against John Barry for assaulting Thomas Callow. The evidence taken was to the effect that the assault took place on the wharf, and arose out of a quarrel, Barry was fined 40s, with costs. Mr Wardell* R.M., presided. „ At Monday’s sitting of the Magistrate’** Court, Mr E. Baker and the Hon. John Johnson presiding, David Walker, charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to fourteen days 9 ' imprisonment with hard labor. George* Galloway, charged with drunkenness, -was remanded, Inspector Goodall stating that theaccused was suffering from delirium tremens, A first offender was fined ss. William Petersen was charged with having no lawful means of support. Ic appeared from the evidence that the accused lives on the proceeds of hie wife’s prostitution. Late on Kriday night last he had been seen standing opposite Anderson’s store in Molesworth-streec, and subsequently the store was broken into, and a* quantity of tobacco removed. Tobacco, had been found, similar to that stolen from Anderson’s store, in Petersen’s possession. Therebeing no evidence, however, to connect himwith the burglary, the Bench sentenced him to fourteen days’ imprisonment on the charge of vagrancy. At the Hutt Court Wednesday Dante Gaminosi and William Wiseman, two fishermen, were charged with infringing the Police Offences Act by erecting buildings on land at Day’s Bay, owned by Sydney Saul. Theoffence having been proved, each defendant was mulcted in a penalty of 10s with costs, and ordered to remove the buildings. There w.as no civil business, the case Mabey v. Riddiford, which was the only one set down*, beiug struck out in the absence of the plaintiff,. Messrs W. A. Fitzherbsrt and W. S. Manning were the presiding Justices. Charles William Nicholson, according tothe evidence of the detective police, is a person*, who derives a precarious livelihood by housebreaking and fortune-telling. The man was brought before the Resident Magistrate's Court Wednesday (the sitting magistrates being. Messrs T. W. YouDg, C. J. Toxsvard, and J. Saunders) to answer the charge of having no lawful visible means of support. DetectivesChrystal and McGrath stated that the prisoner" did not do any work, but spent his day in, sleeping and his nights in prowling about the city. He was a convicted housebreaker, and; frequented houses of evil repute for the purpose of telling fortunes. He had only recently" been liberated from gaol, and pleaded hard foi” “ another chance ” to enable him to go up country and obtain work. Nicholson informed the Bench that the police had a “ down ” onhim, and would not allow him “ to keep on the square,” or, in other words, to gain an honestliving. He was cautioned and discharged.