RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3784, 12 February 1881, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY.

AFFILIATION CASE

Ellen S. Thomas applied for an order of maintenance for her illegitimate child, of which Henry Elmes Campbell was the reputed father.

The Clerk of the Court said that the Court would stand adjourned until Tuesday morning, by the order of the Besident Magistrate.

Mr Brassey, who appeared for the complainant, said that the Besident Magistrate had appointed to hear the case to-day, and in consequence he attended at the Court, for the purpose of going on with the case. It appeared that Mr Kenrick had gone up to the Te Aroha for the purpose of" holding an inquest on the body of a murdered Maori. When he did so, he must have known of the great inconvenience to which his (Mr Brassey's) client would be put, and it was quite possible for Dr Kiigour'to have proceeded to Te Aroha to hold the inquest, Mr Kenrick had gone away without giving him any notice whatever. He (Mr Brassey) would ask the Clerk of the Court to represent to Mr Kenrick on his return, the great inconvenience to which his client had been put. It was his intention to apply to a higher authority than the Resident Magistrate, in order to see if the manner in which the Eesident Magistrate had of late been treating the district was to be allowed to continue.

The Clerk of the Court regretted the inconvenience to which Mr Brassey was put. He doubted whether in any case, the case could be heard before the Justices.

Mr Brassey said the defendant had agreed to an order. A few days might make a great deal of difference, and while unsettled, his client had no security. The Court was then adjourned until Tuesday.