POLICE COURT.- Monday. [Before H. Morrow, Esq., J.P., and D. Graham, Esq., J.P. ]

DRUNKENNESS. William Smith, William Hayles, James Sterry, and Elizabeth Canning were each sentenced to the usual punishment for this offence. LARCENIES. Charlotte Moore was charged with having feloni ously stolen from the premises of Sarah Ann Scott, washerwoman, Nelson-street, a fancy white petticoat and shirfc. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. She admitted having the , petticoat, but stated that she had purchased it from a Maori for 3s. The prosecutrix deposed that she had missed the articles mentioned, and other articles of under clothing. Ellen Muller deposed that the prisoner came to i her house on Thursday last, and offered herfor sale the petticoat produced. Witness purchased it for 65., | and paid ss. 6d. at time of sale. | Mary Ann Kablewhite deposed that the prisoner had also offered the petticoat to her for sale, but she had no money to purchase it. Detective OHara deposed to having arreated the prisoner on Sunday, on the charge stated, and found the articles in her possession. This concluded the evidence. , The prisoner repeated the statement that she had purchased the petticoat from a Maori not knowing it to have been stolen. Commissioner Naughton stated to the Bench that he had known the prisoner for , a number of years, and was much surprised to find her brought up on such a charge. He had always known her to be a hard-working industrious woman. < The Bench, in consequence of the good character thej prisoner had received as being an industrious person, inflicted the mitigated sentence of 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour. William Shields, a notorious character, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with having stolen a handsaw and^a hen,— valued ft 10s. 6d,-r-

COROMANDEL. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) February 7.
