MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1309, 30 May 1878, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHEISTCHUKCH. Thursday, May 30. [Before G. L. Hellish, Esq., E.M.] Neglected Child.—George Austin, an unruly boy with, whom his mother could do nothing, was ordered to be sent to the Industrial School on condition that the mother found security for the payment of 7s 6d per week towards his maintenance. Bbeach of Eegistbation Act.—Clement James Carter was charged with wilfully making a false statement of particulars required to be known and registered under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875. He admitted that he had made the false statement through shame/and ignorance of the law, but urged that the information was bad, as it had not been laid within six months of the offence being committed. His Worship said it was not a case for summary jurisdiction, and the regulation as to the six months did not apply. James Woods Parkerson, registrar of births, deaths, and marriages at Christchurch, deposed that the prisonei registered the birth of a child on the 3rd Octocer, and gave the following particulars:—" The child was born on August 26th at Addington, and was named George Clement." Witness did not see the child. Defendant registered it as a male child. The father's name was Clement James Carter, a butcher fifty-four years old, born at Kingston-on-Thames. Married August 15th, 1876, at Timaru, New Zealand. Wife's name Martha Carter, formerly Roche, twenty-seven years old, born at Eedruth, Cornwall. Defendant signed the register "C. J. Carter, father, Addington, October 3rd, 1877." The whole of these particulars was taken down from information furnished by the prisoner. The defendant declined to question the witness. Strickland S. Field, Deputy Eegistrar for the Christchurch district, deposed that he was assisting the last witness in October last. He identified the prisoner as the person who had fiven the information previously sworn to. Witness was present, wrote the entry, and saw prisoner sign the book. Prisoner declined to cross-examine. William W. Beswick, Eegistrar of Births, &c, for Timaru from June, 1876, to February, 1878, deposed that no marriage between Clement James Carter and Martha Eoche had been registered at Timaru on the 15th August, 1876. No such marriage had been registered during the time he held office. The prisoner declined to cross-examine. Having been duly cautioned, he was asked what he had to say. He replied that he had registered the child, but had no idea he was doing an unlawful act. It could do him no good. He was then committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court in Christchurch. Destitute Persons Belief Ordinance. —John J. Holding was charged with a breach of this ordinance, by not supporting his illegitimate child. The case had been part heard on a previous day. Dr. Foster appeared for the husband of the mother, and Mr Izard for the defendant. Mr Phillips, gaoler at Lyttelton, and Mr Warger, gave evidence for the prosecution. For the defence, the mother was called. The Bench ordered the defendant to pay 12s 6d per week and expenses, £3 14s. LYTTELTON. Thursday, May 30. [Before W. Donald, Esq., E.M.] Larceny.—A boy named Eobert Buchanan, about twelve years of age, was charged with stealing a pipe value £1 10s, the property of Dr. Eouse. The boy's guilt having been clearly established, the Bench sentenced him to be locked up for an hour and whipped. .