RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wellington, 19th July, 1847. Before Henry St. Hill, Esq., R.M.

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Wellington, 19th July, 1847. Before Henry St. Hill, Esq., R.M.

Gooden v. Nicol. This case which has been adjourned several times, came on for final hearing this day. From the evidence of the plaintiff Caroline Gooden, it appeared that the consequence of of the intimacy between the defendant and herself, the latter end of August 1846, was a male child, which was born the 9th May 1847. She stated that the defendant had kept company with her and had promised to marry her. The plaintiff was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Ross, but her evidence was not shaken in any respect. Mr. Ross, in addition to the former objections raised by him on the part of the defendant, which were given in our report of the previous hearing, objected that no proof of the identity of the child had been offered, and also that the child had been born within forty weeks from the time of the complainant's intimacy with the defendant as stated in her evidence. The Magistrate overruled both objections, and the defendant was ordered to pay 3s. 6d. a-week in support of the child, and costs. Mr. Cator appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ross for the defendant.