Supreme Court

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3180, 15 April 1889, Page 2

Supreme Court

Inveroahoih; April 14, At the Supreme Court yesterday his Honor nonsuited. Small and Co. in tho action against \Y. Guthrie and Co. for £ISOO for breaoh of agreement in the purchaso of a sawmill, on a technical objection, raised by Sir tt. Stout, that the plaintiffs had no title to the land on which tho mill stood to offer. Tho mill originally belonged to two partners, of whom one is at present in tho firm. The first firm got leave from the Crown to occupy the land for soven years, but only paid one year's reut, two guineas. The plaintiffs had paid none. The seven years have expired, and the plaintiffs are de facto trespassers, Leave was, given to move for a new trial.

Juvenile ClimeCiiristohukch, April 18. The adjourned annual meeting of Justices this afternoon adopted a memorial to the Minister of Justice urging the necessity for legislation whereby power may be given to Magistrates to deal moro adequately with juvenile criminals and neglected children, and recommending-(1) The prevention of juvenile crime by removing children from tho control of parents who habitually neglect them and fail to keep them from bad company; (2) an amendment of tho law so as to punish parents for not exercising proper control; (3) the introduction of regulations whereby tho magistrates might apprentice neglected or or deserted cnildren to farmers or tradespeople; (4) the establishment of a seagoing training ship for criminal hoys; (6) with regard to females, the raising of the age of consent to at least 14, The memorial points out the bad effect of sending neglected children to mix with young criminals in reformatories and endorses Inspector Pender's opinion that thesuspensiouof the Contagions Diseases Act, hid a very disastrous eflect in Gliiistciiuroh.Tt also auggests that many evils resulting from allowing children to wander about large towns would to some extent he avoided if schools' laws be enforced; the compulsory clauses of the Education Act would bo desirable, and that the attendance required at sohool would be greater than at present. The Resident Magistrate should havo power to hear privatoly cases against juvenile offenders brought before tho Court for the first time.