MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2307, 26 August 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHRISTOEUEOI. Ebidat, August 26. [Before O. Whitefoord, Esq., B.M.] Dbunkenness. —For first offienoes, two man were fined 5s each, and to pay cab hire, Is. Bbbaking into and Stealing phom a Shop. Thomas Lambert, alias James Ashby, and a boy named Charles Birmingham, aged about thirteen, were charged with stealing from the shop of Walker, Smith and 00., at Lyttelton, on July 9th last, three Cardigan jackets, valued at £1 7s 6d.—Sergeant Mason applied for a remand, as other charges were pending further investigation. Bemanded accordingly till Tuesday next, Bbkaoh op Slauqhtbehoubb Act.— The cases against G. W ■ Ell under the above Act were remanded for one week on account of the absence of a material witness for defendant.

Neglected Children. Henry, John, ond William Birmingham, aged nine, six, and four years, were brought up as neglected children. Sergeant Mason stated that the father of the children had deserted them. Their mother had been living with Thomas Lambert, who had just been arrested for stealing from a shop. A warrant had been procured, and the father was arrested and brought up at Wellington, but in consequence of the character of the women, the Bench there declined to make any order. —Sergeant Hughes deposed that the mother of the children had been living for the last two months with Lambert, who was a notorious thief. The house they occupied was the resort of bad characters, and was frequently the scone of rows. The children, besides the bad associations they were exposed to, were very much neglected and deficient in necessaries ; they had not a change of clothing.—Sergeant Mason said he hoped the Bench would send the children to Burnham.—Their mother, who was in Court, protested against that order being made. She would, if allowed, take her children and beg for them from door to door, rather than let them go to Burnham.—The Bench made an order that the children be sent to Burnham, to remain there till they each had attained the age of fifteen years, to bo brought up as Boman Catholics, Extension op License. —An extension of license was granted to Thomas Jowo'l, of the Junction Hotel, for Monday next, for purposes connected with the Druids’ centenary.