MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2200, 26 May 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. Eliza Mowbray for drunkenness was fined 20s or 24 hours’ impri-omnent; Richard Patten, bail (20s) forfeited ; Daniel Collins for using obscene language was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, and on a further charge of obstructing Constable O’Douovau in the execution of his duty, 2 months add’,* tional. Annie Mansfield, using language calculated to provoke a branch of the peace, case dismissed on her promising to leave Dunedin ; Margaret Robinson for drunkenness was fined 10. SAVAGE ASSAULT. W. P. Finch was charged with assaulting J. Collins in George street. The case was a most ageravated one, and the accused was fined LlO or to be imprisoned two months, CHARGE OF CATTLE STEALING, John Hunter, alias Young, alias Anderson, charged with cattle stealing was remanded for a week to give opportunity of sending him tq Wellington for further examination, FATHER ANO SON, William Courtenay Stentiford, 13 years of age, was charged by his fathor with being beyond his control; and he applied to have him sent to the Industrial School for correction, under tho provisions of the Neglected Children's Act, 18(37. T.e chief charge against the lad was laziness and not stopping in any situation that was found for him, getting persons up-country to pay his coach fare and then leaving them without warning. Tho mother of the bay was called, who stated that through some cause, for which she could not account, her husband had ’tftl&oix a dialiUo to the hoy, and would not allow him to board in the house nor give him food. That ho had refused to pay for hia education, excepting for a very short time, raid that she had known tho poor lad amid rain and snow reduced to cooking rotten onions picked up on the beach, for foo 1, for days together. The consequence of this harsh treatment was that the boy was associating with lads of the most depraved habits, and was sometimes almost lost in dirt and in a miserable condition. He was spoken to by his father in coarse language, and naturally rebelled against such treatment. She was not aware that he was incurably lazy, although ho had left one or two situations where work was required of him with which he was unacquainted. His Worship pointed out to the father that he must blame himself to a great extent for the faults in the boy of which he complained, and that he must try more humane means than he had adopted in order to lead the lad to more correct conduct. It was not a case with which he could deal. The father promised to keep the lad on condition that lie would take to work, and the case was dismissed.