GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 522, 26 June 1869, Page 2

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

THE DEBATE ON THE NO CONFIDENCE MOTION. DEFEAT OF THE MINISTRY A MAJORITY OF ELEVEN. THEIR RESIGNATION. MR. FOX FORMS A MINISTRY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPEL.) (from our own correspond est.) "Wellington, Friday. Last night the House refused to divide on Mr Carleion's amendment. Mr Fox's original motion of want of confidence was then put, and was carried by a majority of eleven against the Ministry. Friday, 4 p.m. The House met again to-day at four o'clock. It was then announced by Mr Stafford that the Ministry had sent in their resignation to the Governor, and that it had been accepted by His Excellency. Mr Fox announced that he had been sent for, and that he would be able to form a Ministry. The House was then adjourned nutil Friday next.

"RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COUIIT.

(Before J. Giles, Esq., OS.M.) Thursday, Juste 24. John Moran was, on the information of Mr Freeth, charged with wilfully destroying property. It appeared that, on the previous night, Mr Freeth heard a noise of some one breaking into his house, and went to the police office. on*the return-of the police, the defendant was found to have broken a window, and trying to effect an entry. The Magistrate referred to the increasing complaints of parties rambling about premises, and informed the defendant that, bad he been brought up under the Vagrant Act, and convicted, he might have been sentenced to two years'imprisonment. As it was, he would undergo imprisonment for three weeks.

Friday, June 25. James Power was charged with having been drunk, and was fined 20s. Sergeant Keiley mentioned that in the lock-up, the prisoner had stated that he had in his possession ,£ls, but the amount found on him was £S 17s, and he insinuated that the remainder had been taken from him. The Magistrate said he could not take notice of any circumstance except the charge before him. indecent exposuee. John Conuell. was charged with wilfully indecent exposure. It was the evidence of a married woman, and her daughter, twelve years of age, that on the Bth of June, the prisoner had . exposed his person, and followedthe little girl until within a few yards of her mother's house. It was also the evidence of. the girl that the prisoner had on other occasions repeated his conduct towards her and other little girls playing at the river-side, going behind a small tin house, and attracting their attention by coughing. ' Information'"was given to Constable Neville, and he watched the locality, but only arrested the prisoner on Thursday, when he was pointed out by the mother of the girl. Information had been given by other parties of a man lurking about the neighbourhood in which the occurrences took place. Mr M'Guire proved a previous conviction on a charge of indecent assault at Addison's Flat, in which, it may be remembered, the offence was alleged to have been committed on a child. The prisoner alleged that he could prove an alibi, land the Magistrate gave him' time to obtain witnesses by adjourning the case until this day. Frederick Walker, a quiet-looking young man, was charged by Ann Connolly, a well-known character, with using indecent language. The informant did not appear, and tho defendant, who denied the charge, was allowed 10s expenses. ILLEGALLY ON. PREMISES. Thomas Dewdney was charged with "having been found at night, without lawful excuse, on the premises of Jane Anderson." Mr Pitt appeared for the complainant. The defendant applied for a postponement of tho case, until he shduld be able to employ counsel and obtain witnesses ; and the Magistrate agreed to postpone the case' until Monday. The case seemed to attract a considerable attendance at the Court, in cdnsequenco, apparently, of the public knowledge of a recent civil case in which the parties were concerned, and of a bailiff's sale of the complainant's goods at which an effigy of the defendant, her creditor, was among the articles brought to the hammer.