CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11329, 24 January 1899, Page 4

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, January 23.

(Before Messrs G. L. Denniston and W. A. ...', : Walton, J.P.'s.) . .

Drunkenness.—Four.first offenders were convicted and discharged. John Macfcay was fined 2s 6d,and Mary O'Neill ss, the alternative in each case being 24 hours' imprisonment. Combined Charges.—William Conn pleaded guilty to being drunk, and also to resisting Constable Willis in the execution of his auty.— Serjeant O'Neill stated that accused was arrested for drunkenness, and was very violent, and attacked Constable Willis.—Accused was convicted and discharged for the first offence and fined 20s for the other.-Wilham and James Martin were charged with being drunk, and with assaulting Constable Surgenor while in the execution of his duty.—William Martin was further charged with using obscene language.—Mr Hanlon appeared for the two accused, and, on the application of Sergeant O'Neill, tho cases were adjourned until tnday, next, on account of the absence of an importanNichol's Creek Waterfall—Elizabeth Fiunerty (20) and Isabella Finnerty (15) were charged with wilfully trespassing upon the property of Robert Rossbotharn, at Leith Valley. Mr Stamper appeared for complainant.—The girls were undefended, and stated that their parents were away from town, and would not be back for some time.—Mr Stamper contended that the absence of the parents should not affect his. client's interests. These girls were in the habit of taking visitors through Mr Rossbotham'a property to the Nichol's Creek fall. Complainant had suffered grievous iujury through people trespassing. Fences had been cut, padlocks broken, peacocks killed, and dogs stolen. He had suffered general annoyance.— Mr Hanlon said he had spoken to Mr J. F. 11. Fraser, and he would suggest that, seeing tho position of the girls, the case be adjourned for a week or-10 days, so that the parents might have an opportunity of being back in town. It was hard to say what defence there might be. The defendants might claim that they had a right to .go through the. property.—The case was adjourned to Wednesday week. . Assault.—A. Ross pleaded not guilty to having assaulted Elizabeth Constance Hendrick, at South, Dunedin, on the 19th inst.—Mr Hanlon, who appeared for informant, said the facts were that his client had been, till recently, a tenant of defendant's. On the date in question Ross went to the house, and committed the assault complained of. Ho took tho woman by the clothes, beat her, and ejected her from the place. She was knocked about very badly, and the police were sent for, and Sergeant Brown would state the condition he found the woman in. Counsel suggested thai defendant should be fined such an amount that he would not take the law into his own hands in future.—Evidence having been given by Mrs Hendrick, two of her children, and Sorgeant Brown, tho defendant made a long rambling statement, tho purport of which was that the house was got upon misrepresentation, and that he had not committed any assault.—Tho Bench considered that an assault had been committed. Mr Ross had exceeded hi 3 rights in endeavouring to put the woman out of the house, and would be fined 50s and costs (21s), in default seven days' imprisonment.

BABIES ON FIRE, BABIES BURNINGUP, with itching and burning eczemas, and other torturing, disfiguring skin and scalp humours. Korie but mothers realise how these little ones suffer when their tender skins are literally on fire. To know that a warm bath with CUTICURA SOAP and a single anointing with GUTTCURA, purest of emollients and greatest of skin cures, will in tho majority of cas3S afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep to both child and parent, and point to a speedy cure, and not to use them without a moment's delay, is to fail in our duty. Think of the years of suffering entailed by such neglect, years not only of physical but of mental suffering by reason of personal disfigurement, added to bodily torture. Cures made in infancy and childhood are speedy, permanent, and ccoeoitt; ca!.—?