----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrival - Aug. 3 - Janet Nicoll, s.s., from Auckland and Gisborne. Departures - Aug. 3 - Ohau, s.s., for Northern ports. Aug. 3 - Janet Nicoll, s.s., for Wellington. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., James CRONIN pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was dismissed with a caution. A few cases under the Police Offences Act were heard at the R.M.Court yesterday. Robert PATON, for driving a horse and cart over a footpath in Emerson-street, was fined 10s and costs. Charles JONES, for leaving a horse and cart unattended, was fined 10s and costs. Henry REARDON, for allowing a horse to stray, was fined 2s and costs. The fine in each case was paid. Our Waipawa correspondent writing yesterday says:- Before Messrs INGLIS and TODD, Justices, to-day, James MATHEWS, storekeeper, Hampden, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling poison, to wit, "rough on rats," not being registered under the Poisons Act, 1871. He was fined 1s, with 7s costs. A youth named James DOUBLE was charged at the R.M.Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., wsith committing a cowardly assault on a Chinaman named LOW YEE YEE, who keeps a rabbit hutch of a "shop" in Emerson-street, where he dispenses the healthful cigarette, the lively cracker, and the handkerchief of patent silk. ..... After hearing the evidence his Worship showed on which side he thought the truth was by fining defendant £2, ordering him to pay costs and expenses amounting to £2 8s 9d, or in default to undergo 21 days' hard labor.