COURT CASES TO-DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4489, 30 January 1886, Page 3

COURT CASES TO-DAY.

G. B. WORGAN SENT TO GAOL. At the R.M. Court to-day George T. Huliton was fined 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment for drunkenness and sentenced to 7 days' imprisonment with hard labor for using bad language. In the last charge Constable Bowers proved that the language waa very bad, and ÜBed within the hearing of ladies. George Buckiand settler, (Waikanae), was charged with the larceny as a bailee of five pounds the property of Timi Kahu an old native man. Defendant elected to be dealt with summarily. The evidence proved that last Monday the informant was drunk in the Argyll Hotel and gave defendant five pounds to look after for him, he (defendant) saying he would return it in the morning. Defendant and Borne of his native friends repeatedly asked him for the money, but he put them off in many ways. One of the witnesses got defendant to give informant an "1.0.U."as an acknowledgement of the money. — The defendant acknowledged receiving the money, but stated he had been and was now quite prepared to return it if hia receipts were given him. He had never spent one farthing of the money, and he contended the action should have been a civil instead of a criminal one. — His Worship considered the charge proved and ordered that the £5 be returned and the defendant to be imprisoned for two months' in the Napier Gaol with hard labor.