HBH 1890 May 6 Court and local Page Two At a meeting of the St Paul's Mutual Improvement Society which was held yesterday evening and Mr J H TODD in the chair. A man named James ADAMS was yesterday brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court charged with being drunk and resisting the police-was fined 5s and costs for getting intoxicated and £1 and costs for resisting the civil power. Captain PREECE issued a warrant yesterday, on the applications of Mr CRESSWELL, for the arrest of Walter C BROWN, on a charge of wife desertion. BROWN, who is well known in NAPIER, was till recently employed at Messrs BLYTHE and Co's, and still more recently at a shop in HASTINGS. He was a married man, and had one child. He made the acquaintance of a young lady whose mission in life for the time was also to serve buyers of drapery goods, and from circumstances which have come to the knowledge of Brown's wife, it is supposed that her husband and the other young lady agreed so well that they decided to elope and seek happiness in other climes. At all events, BROWN has left NAPIER, and is said to be in WELLINGTON waiting to take passage to AUSTRALIA tomorrow, but the turn affairs have taken, and the issue of a warrant for Brown's arrest, have, as will be seen from our WELLINGTON telegrams, put a stoop to the voyage. A peculiar case was heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Christopher BEECHY, a respectable labouring man, was charged with burning rubbish in a garden without permission from the Municipal Council. After hearing evidence case was dismissed. At the Public Works Committee of the Municipal council who met last evening it was not entertained that the request of COTTON and DINWIDDIE for a rebate on rates. The offer of the Bowling Club to purchase part of town section 364 for bowling purposes for the sum of £500, be accepted conditionally that it be used for recreation purposes only.