An unemployed native was charged with the theft of silver tea service, valued "tt $120, the property of Mr. Hillman, fr 3, Rue Loong-kiang, on the 2ist of April.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, appeared that. on the 2ist of April the ten service was placed on the dining-room table about 2.30 p.m. and when the room was o1- tered at 4 p.m. it had disappeared. The window was open and the thief must have dossed the yard and entered the room through the verandah. The prisoner had been noticed loitering in the vicinity about the time of the theft, and was recognised by the amah. He was arrested in Chinkiang whilst trying to sell the tea-servies to a foreigner there. The amah had identi fied the prisoner at the Station as the man she noticed near the house on the 2ist April The prisoner was sentenced to 300 blows and six months' imprisonment.
Cruelty te a Pony.
A cecile was charged with cruelly ill-treating a pony by working it attached to carriage while suffering from lameness in the fore-legs, on the 7th instant.
{ter hearing the evidence of Inspector Kinipple and a native conerable, the Court sentenced the prisoner to 200' blows and four months' cangue, and ordered the pony to be taken charge of by the Police until cured, Shanghai, 11th May.
Before Mr. Waa (Asst. Magistrate) and Mr. Twraay (British Assessor.)
Disobeying Building Regulations, Two men, tenants of Nos. 311-3 Fokien Road, appeared in answer to a summons charging them with disobeying By-law 18 of the Building Regulations.
Mr. Perey Tilley, who prosecuted on behalf of the Council, said that in the plans approved by the Council certain yards were to be made to give sufficient Ventilation. 'The defendants had covered these yards, thus preventing proper ventilation and' making the houses dangerous from a sanitary point of view. Witness had sent round his foreman to order the removal of the structure, but the defendants had not complied with these instructions.
A fine of $10 was imposed and the Court ordered the obstruction to be removed in a week.
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