MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3143, 17 March 1873, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor and A. Mercer, Esq., J.P.)

Drunkenness. —Frank Dean, who had been in the lock-up since Saturday night, was discharged; John Keen, Wtn. James Mulhollaud, and Alexander Sutherland were each lined ss, with the option of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Damaging Property. —Ellen Green was charged with breaking one pane of glass valued at Is, the property of Z. D. Patterson. As prosecuter did not appear, accused was discharged. Neglected Child. —Margaret Green, a little girl right years of age, and daughter of the last prisoner, was charged with being a neglected child. Detective Farrell said the girl’s mother was the woman who had recently been charged with making a noise outside the Queen’s Theatre after one of Dr Dunn’s lectures ; and that she lived by prostitution. The woman denied this, and said that she had been eight years in Christchurch, and that nothing was known against her. The Bench thought the child had better be sent to the Industrial School, but promised the mother if she reformed, and the authorities -were satisfied with her character, she would be released. The child was sent to the Industrial School for seven years, and ordered to be instructed in the Church of England form of religion.