HAWERA E.M. COURT.

Patea Mail, 23 June 1882, Page 3

HAWERA E.M. COURT.

(FROM oU R OOESE SP O NDENT.)

CHARGE OF RAPE,

R. H. Wilson of Manaia, was charged on Thursday, before His Worship the Mayor and Captain Wilson J.P., on the information of Raymus Butler, for an to commit rape on his daughter, aged 15. Mr Hamerton, for defendant, pointed out some defect in the machinery of the law, and the case was dismissed. LARRIKINISM—A CAUTION.

A youth of 10 summers named Patrick Fitzsimmons was also charged with breaking windows in a house belonging to Richard Clarke. He was dismissed with a caution, upon the father agreeing to replace the broken panes.

While on the above subject it may be well to caution the inhabitants of our “ city ” to be on their guard against the depredations of youthful desperadoes. Persons cannot walk down the streets of an evening but obscene jokes are hurled at them. Of couise the police are riot aware of it, because they are never to be seen when wanted, but then of course their duties are so very heavy here that allowance must be made for them. Constable Connell, who has been interesting himself a good deal with the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society, is about to leave. He has been appointed Secretary to the Waitara Harbor Board, and expects to leave some time nest week.

The most glaring case of meanness I think I ever heard of has been occurring here for the last week. .Mr Fantham (a recent arrival) has rather a good crop of turnips, and intended keeping them for some time until the grass becomes scarce, but;fate had willed it otherwise, for some kind neighbor has been in the habit of turning his cows into the. turnips at night and removing them before daybreak in the morning. Of course, Mr Fantham’s anxiety to get at the perpetrator is only equalled by the latter’s determination to keep it dark.