Police Court.

Southland Times, Issue 8040, 22 June 1885, Page 2

Police Court.

OAMPBELLTOWtf. ■ ;j ;. , Satubday, 20th:Jtob. ; ; (Before H. McCulloohj Esq., ftM*) '• " ■"■■ '. WEIGHTS iND &BASUBES." The following persons were charged! by the -iDgpeqtor of -Weights apdJteasurea (Mr Wright) wjth breaohesof theWoighte and Measures Act, 1868 :— Nichol Brother*, Robert iWalker,* and T. A. Iggo, were charged "with having light weight*, arid further; with Laving- uostatttped weigh€4tf in their possession. T. J. WarroD^Jaj^^B Leokie, and Wuddeil and Go.' for havin^H light weights, and Charles Bra'dnhaw, Jbli^P Bergin and A'ex. Gangster XpubTicane), for having pint measureg which were not stamped. — After a considerable amount of evidenoe bad been taken his Worship diamissed all the cases under section 87 o€ the Justice of Pence Act, but declared the ; weights and measures forfeited tinder clause 39 o! -the Weights and Measures Ml- Mr Jones appeared fop the de£©nd"ante; I>ij '- : ' : -- : ■''■- ■--•-v^--; :.<■:■. - Thbnoias Cross, was oharged^witb «wao7tiog. IFrederick ' ■■■m< • Schroedeir ' on 28th 'April last* on board the cotter Lizzie, at Waikawa. Mr Wade appeared for oomplaint, and Mr Matthews for defendant. The evideLce wen'Mo^shOwfltiat Cross was master of tha cutter Lizzie, and left tho yessel for a f ew ~tourer Before gpiog }t& told the plaintiff to shift the ctLi^ffartHer down the harbor, wHich he didf alfbng with another mannatued Stanle^.J^e,, .however, • did ,. not but ".the vessel where defehdaot had told bini, and lei bertouch.bh a re^, t andj when? Gross pame o,n jboard-tiiie i a^saiiife was committed. ■ ; The charge- was proved land defendant was: fined L2 ; witU eoatgy ;L4 6s. The eaino' defendant wwfunbtr charged by Thomas Stanley -with nsswxhittg him'onbpardthetsanitf vessel da loth May. Thebhief evidenoei was given by (he defendahf and 7 ooropfainant.^^'•P/WrScbrdeier gj^ve. unirnportaiit;' jeyidencer His ; that; it^flsjacasiat of path against, j^oath, ; and: ,it .; witho(ut g oßtßf :'."!" : . f "-