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POLICE.

At the City Court on Tuesday before Messrs Sturt, P M, Hull, Wilton and Stokes, J P' s, John Hood was charged with larceny as a bailee of a racehorse named Grasshopper at Merino near Coleraine the property of Henry Bilston. Detective Dow   den arrested him at Flemington on the 19th inst. The prisoner was remanded to

Merino

At the I AST CofLi_,ovvooD Court on Tues

day an elderly woman named Mary Duncan was charged with stealing a quantity of clothing from the Brunswick Hotel

Brunswick street On tbo previous evening the landlady Mrs Moms having occasion to go into her bedroom found tho prisoner t>jtv andaquantity of gentleman s clothing f/i. led up ready for removal She was sont to gaol for 12 months William Bradly was sent to gaol for seven dayB for kicking a boy named Robert Mills A boy named AViUiam rietcber who had acted in a filthy manner to some meat in the shop of Mr Hedger a butcher was sent to gaol for seven days as his father refused to pay a fino of 20a for

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At theKEwCourt onAVednesday beforo tho mayor and Mr Marshall, AVilbam Garlagh a youth was charged with assault with intent on one Margaret Morgan a girl under the age of 12 years and on a second charge with an aggravated assault Mr Taylor appeared for the defendant and on his application tho case was postponed for a week Ldward Noonan the keeper of the Boroondara Hotol

Boioondara was complained against by Senior constable M Grath for an unlawful assault It appeared that on Sunday last Mr Smith an engineer residing at Rich mond, was returning with his sons from churcfi and saw a woman knocked down by the defendant vbo dragged her by tho hair and threw her into a shed upon which ho was told by the defendant that tho woman was his wife and to mind his own business The case w as post, oned for a week

At the c--NDiiD&_ Court on Thursday Pattick Macaulay landlord of tho Chusau notel was c1 irged with knowingly harbour ing and concealing two runaway seamen of the Swedish bar nie Sidney Mr Harcourt for the cai tam wl o prosecuted Mr Cress well for the defence The master of tho vessel having given evidencoof the desertion of the men for wini h they nad previously been brought before the Court and sentenced to impnsonment Sergeant M Adam stated that on lune 23 be went with a warrant to the Chusau Hotel and searched in tho house Ho found tho two men concealed between the ceiling and tho roof in a place the highest part of which was not moro than 4ft Hio entrance to it was through a trap door m the ceiling of a pas

sage There vv as no connexion between it and tho lloor and a ladder had to be obtained to gain admittance to it 1 hero were somo battens laid across the joists and two blankets u_ on ti em AVhen tho sergeant h id arrested the men some clothes were brought to them by a Sw ediBh servant of the houso named John Jacol sen Hie landlord was not présentât tie time Hie ovidonco of the seamen Christiansen and Fridholm vvl ich was t ii en through the medium of au interpreter was that they left the ship on lune 17 and went to the Cbusan llotel where they slept that night

Next day they went to Alelbourno returned the same evening and stayed at the hotel till ti ey were discovered AVlulst there they did not see the 1 mdlord at any time but stayed in the loft which they reached by means of a ladder biought by Jaeobsen and then meals were also brought to thom by him Jaeobsen who gave his evidence in a very contradictory manner first swore that be did not know whether tlie men slept in the loft more than ono night aad did not seo them there on any other occasion, and then that he bad sui i lied them therewith food be tween the 17th and "3rd He did not tell tho defendant that the men wore in the house Ihey wished to go into the loft themselves and be brought the ladder for them to reach it lu cross eximination it was elicited that the food w is not taken to the men from tho general table but tb it witness got ltfrom the laider Mr Cresswell submitted that thero vi as not the slightest evidence to show that defendant knew anything about the men ben g on his _ remises and that Jaeobsen being a countryman of the sailors might have secreted them entirely without the authority or 1 now ledge of defendant Mr Macaulay stated that ho bad no know ledge whatever of the mon having been secreted m his house lho Court reserved their decision and Jaeobsen was then oro

ceeded ag tinst for assisting to conceal run away seamen Hie evidence taken in tlie last case with the exception of defendants was admitted Mr Cresswell raised the le. t LI ii ti o r. itUonty of ti c (3 e Hull consul for the conduct of tho prosecution had not been i roved tlie document only being for the piosecution of Macaulay for conceal mg tho men and not for the prosecution of Jaeobsen for ass sting in concealing them Miel eneh considered the objection valid and deciding ti it there was no evidence in the previous caso which would justify Macaulay in being convicted the probability being that he 1 new nothing of the concoal ment of the men Hey dismissed both in formations without costs

At the 1 ooTScii \y Court on AVednesday the adjourned ai i hcation of lohn Keefe for a licence for Arnott s Hotel was gone into The apilication had been adjourned from the previous w eek to allow timo to consider the caso Keefe s notice of intention to apply not appearing m the newspapers soven daya prior to the licensing meeting Mr 1 dwarda tor Keefe asked the chairman in his capa city of stipendiary licensing magistrate to fix a day when he would bear an application

for a further transfer of the licence to Keefe

and Mr Mollison said be could apply at any time Tho application for tho licence was then withdrawn A butcher named Aaron Noms sued John Rees to recover 17s 4d for meat sold but as complainant could not prove the meat was not ordered by defendants wife for her mother who kept a hotel tho complainant was nonsuited Thomas Chapman summoned by the town inspector for allowing some pigs to wandor at large in the streets of tho borough on tbo Ctb inst was fined £1 with 7s Od costs Thomas Bergo Derham for similaily offend ing was mulcted in a like penalty

At the riT_noY Court on Thursday Messrs

Auld, Brothers, boot and shoe manufac- turers, appeared to complain against an ap- prentice named John Ratsford for absenting

himself from their service. The defendant did not appear, and a warrant was directed to be issued for his apprehension. Jeremiah Boland was informed against for allowing disorderly peisons to assemble in his licensed pubbehouse ui Brunswick street It seemed that a number of persons assembled m tho bar had ] orsisted in creating a dis turi ance and had got quito beyond control

Defendant was fined 40s Six boys named 1 redenck Molds Charles Healey John Blair Octavius Reilly Henry Stack and Samuol Moora wero charged with steabng somo fancy articles from the shop of Mrs AVood ruff in Bmnswiek street Moors who was 13 years old was sentenced to 12 hours im prisonmcnt The others who woro all under the ago of nine woro discharged with a caution on account of their oxtremo youth

At tho AAiilivmstown Court on lnday John lord was summoned by Ins wife to show cause vi hy ho should not bo bound over to keep tho peace towards bor It seems that there are faults on both sides and as the Bench were evidently at a loss to know which party was ni tho wrong tho case was dismissed James Alillan was summoned by limotby Kieran for an assault committed on tho 19th met Loth parties aro employed on board the ship Greta and on tho evening of the above dato Millan and somo other Bailors were standing at tho railway station when lucran passed by Tho latter then mado somo disi arnging remark with refer

enco to sailors in general which did not agree with Millan s views Later in tho Lacning Millan asked Kieran what ho know against sailors and receiving a surly reply knocked bim down Afinoof20s with 11s Gd costs was imposed James Murray, a sailor ai os summoned by tbo pobco for having committed a breach of tlio peaco on tho ni^ht of tho loth inst It appears that a

sailor named N elson asked Constable Rush vvortl to accom.anv him to tho Prince of AA ali '"'?vtel, and on thoir arrival thoro _Murn_u'_p)._«iok Nelson lho constable did not than arreBt him as thoro wero a number of sailors about all moro or less under tbo influence of liqnor Defendant was fined 10s ?with 2s Od costs in default throo days im

imsonment

" A remarkable instance of the fidelity of a dog Yvas witnessed," the Gipps Land Mercury states, "last week. When tho body of the man Gcorgo Spenco was discovorod, a small dog yvas seated on it, and would not let any ono approach ; at lost, by means of ropes, tbBy removed the body. The dog then took EoBsession of a hat and comfortor loft on tho

bank by tho deceased, and rofused to allow thom to bo removed without groat diffi-

culty."

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