POLICE COURT.— Tuesday. [Before J. O'Neill, Esq., J.P., Chairman, and H. Morrow, Esq., J.P.]

DBUNKENNESS. Margaret Condron was mulcted in the usual | penalty or alternative for this offence. ALLEGED STOWAWAY. John Watson was brought up, charged by Captain Wolffe, of the barque 'Island City,' with being a stowaway on board that vessel during the passage from Queensland to Auckland, contrary to the provisions of the 258 th clause of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. Mr. MacCormick appeared for the prosecution. Edward Wolffe deposed that he was master of the barque 'Island City,' and left Gladstone, Queens land, on the 18th of January last. He knew the prisoner, and firat saw him on board the vessel after , he had got under weigh for Auckland. He was not a passenger, and not a seaman, and had no person's consent to be on board. Witness asked him the morning after leaving Queensland what he was doing there, and he replied that he was a poor man, and wanted a passage to Auckland. Witness told him to join the orew. In cross-examination by prisoner, witness said he was aware he was working on board the day before leaving port, and intended to put him on shore in the pilot-boat. In reply to the Bench, witness said he told prisoner if he behaved himself, and worked with the crew, he would give him a passage to Auckland. He went to work with the crew, and continued so until the arrival of the vessel in port, with a very short exception, when he was so turbulent that he had to be put in irons. The Bench at this stage dismissed the case, believing prosecutor to have had cognisance of prisoner's presence on board before leaving port, and to have given him consent to join the crew. LARCENY. Catherine Douglas, an old offender, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing from the Governor Browne Hotel, Hobson-Btreet, on the previous day, one silver-plated ink-stand, -value £4 10s., one parlour bell, value 7s. 6d., and one glass, value Is., the property of David Sheehan, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour. There was no ether business before the Court.
