POLICE COURT. THIS DAY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7991, 8 October 1887, Page 2

POLICE COURT. THIS DAY.

Saturday, October 8. — Before B. Parris, Esq., J.P. ALLEGED LARCENY. Paratene (Pratt), a young Maori, ap. peared under arrest, charged- with having stolen on October 8, at the Meeting of the Waters, about 121bs. of fungus, valued at 3s 6d, the property of Joseph Hay ward. Sergeant Dnffin elated that he had just arrested accused on a warrant. He asked for a remand to Monday. This was granted, and the Court rose. The illness so prevalent in New Plymouth, called the dandy fever, is as bad in Wellington, we learn, and from a private ■ letter received by Sergeant Castles from Wellington this morning, we learn that the complaint is supposed to have been brought to the colony by the passengers of an English vessel. Five Remington-Lee Bifles, with which to arm the local representative team for Oamara, and a case of ammunition for the same, will be sent here from Wanganui on Monday. Preaching service to-morrow, in Qaeenstreet church, at 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. The Babject in the evening will be — "Some wonderful things about the Bible." — 'Advt. 3 1 . If all those whose names have been mentioned as probable ministers, says the Auckland Bell, were to receive cabinet appointments tbe House will resemble Artemas Ward's famous regiment — nothing but officers. In reading the interminable lists of so-called " prominent" men, one involuntarily parodies Charles Lamb, and asks " Where are the duffers?" Sergeant Dnffin likes bis little joke, as will be gathered from the annexed : He, in company with a settler, waited on the Clerk of the Court this morning, just as that functional y was opening his office door for the business of tbe day, and in a tone indicative of urgent hasto he eaid unto the Clerk: "An information, quick 1" I As the Clerk, full of zeal, hurried behind hi 3 desk to get the blue form, ho said to the Sergeant : « What's it for ?" He was much disgusted to learn in the words of the Sergeant that the settler wanted " to lay an information against a Maori for stealing 121bs. of fungus." The Sergeant laughed heartily at his joke.

Two boys named Smith were sent to the same echooJ. The twin aame of John Smith puzzled the other scholars how to give them significant nicknames. Tbe difienli y was solved by their discovery tfr •; tb' one was the son ox an auctioneer, on.< the other the son of a waiter. Thereupon :hey dubbed tho, ono " Going" Sn.itb, ,md the other l t Coming" Smith— names by which they are still distinguished,