WELLINGTON

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 696, 15 May 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON

This Day. A young man named Thomas Martin, barman in Monk's Post Office Hotel, has been arrested for stealing money from a till. Some marked coins were found on him. He admitted that. o f £40 found on him, £38 had been stolen from Monk.

In Chambers yesterday, Mr. Gordon Allen applied for a writ of Habeas Corpus in the case of Frederick Gleich the defaulting Adelaide bankrupt. Gleich was arrested under the provisions of the " Foreign Offenders Act, 1863," and Mr. Allen moved for his discharge from Wellington gaol on the ground that the Magistrate had no power to remand Gleich to Adelaide under the Act. As it appeared, Gleich is at present on ordinary remand for production of evidence, the judge held the application to be permature, and should not be made until the prisoner had actually been remanded to Adelaide.

Sevenfcy-one applications for licenses are to be heard at the next sitting of the Licensing Court.

Mr. Mansford, R.M., occupied all day yesterday in hearing a charge of assault prefered against Henry Anderson, editor of the Evening Chronicle, by one Easby, a blind-maker, and a counter charge brought by Anderson against Easby. Evidence showed that while Anderson was hitting Easby, his wife was soundly belabouring Anderson. Anderson is well-known as an amateur pugilist who has made several previous apperances at Court on charges of assaulting different people.