MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2547, 7 June 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBIBTOHUROE. Wednesday, June 7. [Before O. Wbitefoord, E«q , B.M. ) Drunkenness. —Isabella Leokie was fined £1 or in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment with hard labor. John Parker, who had been under medical treatment for seven days at Addington Gaol, was charged with lunacy from drink, and being reported as cured was fined 10s, ordered to pay 10; 6d for his maintenance while in gaol, and discharged. In a case of the same kind Henry Meroor was ordered to pay 10s fid for his maintenance. He wanted to know how he was to get back! to Ashburton, from which place he had been committed. The Magistrate said that, instead of asking such a question as that, he ought to be grateful to his country for having taken him in hand, and repaired the effects of his own folly. If he thought the process was expensive, he ought to have considered that before ho made himself a lunatic from drink. Burnham School Children, mm Hr Loughrey, for the brother of a girl aged about fifteen, whose term had expired, applied to have her given up to the brother’s charge. On consideration, however, that the parents of the girl are reported to bo of an abandoned character, and might possibly take her away from her brother, Mr Wbitefoord declined to make the order, fcho would remain under the control of the master of the

institution, but if it eiuld be shown that it oould be safely done, and that it would be for ber welfare, it would be open to the master -o assign her to ber brother as an apprentice Till then, or till she attained the age of twenty-one, the master would remain in loco parentis to her. ICliz. A. Hoare, aged six years, whose mother is dead, on the applica tion of her father, who is unable to work, and in poor oitoitnstances, w.'B ordered to be sent to the school for seven years conditional on the father finding security for the payment of 6a per week for her maintenance while there.

Beewees’ Licenses.— ln the case of Eokersley and Maofarlane, prosecuted for selling porter as bottlers without license, judgment wag further deferred till June 15th. Civil Cases. —West v Day, claim £l2 for wages ; judgment for plaintiff for £1 3« 6i, and Mackay v Day, a similar claim, judg mint for plaintiff for £1 3s 6d, costs, and ex psnses of one witnesg allowed in each case. Judgments went for plaintiffs by default in Ford and Co. v Best, £37 10i ; Morton’s trustees v Ferguson, £33 19*; Pepperell v Bailor, £25, and Wilkin and Co. v Bell, £2B Is Id. Lewis v Beatty was adjourned till July 12 th.