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Kumara Times, Issue 1755, 16 May 1882, Page 2

We are compelled to hold over our telegrams and several local items of intelligence.

Burton's Royal Australian Circus will positively open this evening in the State School playground, and for this evening only. A monster programme is prepared. A aitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court was held this morning before E. Barff, Esq., J.P., when "Walter Hodges, on remand, was charged with having unlawtully and carnally known Henrietta Hooker, a little girl under ten years of age. The sitting lasted upwards of three hours, Jand the inquiry was held with closed doors. The evidence throughout disclosed facts of such a horribly revolting character as to render it imprudent to give even a bare outline of the depositions. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Holdtika.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held at the Secretary's office this ev'eniflg. A test case was brought up in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Oamaru, on the sth inst., to prohibit shooting game on Sundays. The prosecution asked the Bench to decide whether, as there was no New Zealand Act in force, the English Acts would be in force in the' colony. Argument was heard in favor of the defendant, after which the Bench decided that the case must be' dismissed, as there was no Act in force in New Zealand- prohibiting the shooting of game on Sundays.