CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13874, 11 April 1907, Page 10

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, April 10. (Before Mr C. C. Graham, S.M.) A Charge of Theft.-Georgc Stanley Sharp, on remand, was charged with having, between August. 1 and October 29, 19013, broken into and entered the warehouse of Messrs Rattiay and. Son, and having stolen therefrom 113 boxes of cigarettes and two boxes of tobacco, to■ the -value of-£9oi'l2s Bd.—Chief Detective Herbert asked for a -remand for a- week in older that a witness might be obtained from Christchurcb:— Accused was remanded , accordingly, bail 'being allowed as before. Application for Prohibition Order.—A woman.applied.for-a prohibition order against ha. - husband. The man opposed tho older, and the evidence on both sides being diametrically oppo'sed, h<9 Worship adjourned Iha case for a week so that both -sides might bring, witnesses, A'.B-rothers' Quarrel.—Charles Neil M'Lar&n complained that Arjdrow M'Laren, his brother, assaulted Jiiin, on 2nd April, and ssked that bo should-be bound over to keep the paacc.— Tho defendant did' not appear, md complain-, ant gavo evidence that defendant had, while under the influence of drink, gone down to the Hospital, where witness was working, and bodily assaulted him. Defendant also worried complainant's wife.—His Worship oidored defendant to find a surety of .£lO that he would keep the peace. Application to Rescind an Order.-John Hodson, for whom Mr Irwiu- appsared, app!i«l to have a summary oepanition order undo against him under tho Destitute Persons Act rescinded, on tha ground that his wife had bosn guilty of adultery and had otherwise inisoonducted heraelf.—Mr Emsl'io appeared for' Elizabeth Hcdson to opposo tho application.—lt having beon decided that tho evidence, which- was given •an a previous occasion, need not lx> gone over again, Mr Emslio submitted that, according to tho act of ISM, under which tho information was lnid, his AVorship had no power to grant the application.' So long as it was proved that the woman was.a destitute porsan the or&ar could' net bo rescind«l, not even were misoondiict.proven—Mr Irwin opposed this view, ecu-tending that before such an order could hold-' good the person to whom it apptfed musi.bo loading a olean life, and tho evidence in this casa would point out that this wag not tho case—His Worship sudd 1 Iβ would note Mt Eraslio's point.— Evi&ncc was tiren given by Elisabeth Hodaon, who denied tho charges mtvdo- against her, and by Thomas Barber.—His Warship said he would reserve his judgment for a wwk.