R.M. COURT, HAMILTON. Yesterday.—[Before H. W. Northcroft, Esq., R.M.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1373, 21 April 1881, Page 2

R.M. COURT, HAMILTON. Yesterday. — [Before H. W. Northcroft, Esq., R.M.]

William: Black, William F. Bell, Samuel Fulsham, Sylvester McGuire, and John Hinton, were severally charged with breaches of No. 1 of the Borough Bylaws ; the three first being fined Is, and costs 7*, and the last two cautioned.

Vagrant. Alfred Bennett charged by Constable Murray with having no visible means of support, was fined £5, and costs 245, or in default three months' imprisonment with hard labor in Mount Eden Gaol.

Assault. Mary Ann Mayes was charged by Lydia Jackson with assaulting her on the 10th of April, by striking her in the face and chest with her open hand. — It appears that Mrs Jackson went to defendants' house with the intention of taking her child — aged 18 months— home, the defendant objected to her doing so, unless she was paid, a sum of £i claimed for support. The informant picked up the child and took it outside the house, when the alleged assault occurred, by the defendant seizing the child and taking it back into the house.— The defendant stated that the reason she took the child away from informant, was that it had no hat on, and that when she did so, informant struck her on the shoulder, and " went on some'at dreatful." — At this stage His Worship dismissed the case. There were several small debt cases dealt with of no general interest.

A common* cause of complaint among the girls is, that in many a ball-room they are allowed to become wall-flowers, while married women, mothers and possible grandmothers, are preferred by the gilded youth of the period to flirt and dance with. While wondering that this should be thus, the true reason may never, perhaps, have entered their heads. The Supreme Courts of several States have decided, through some of their judges, that when a man has flirted with a girl,, waited upon her in public, visited her in private, given her presents, and done similar amiable things, it is prima facie proof of his promise to marry her ; hence he is liable to a breach of promise action See, therefore, what danger a non-marry-ing man avoids by devoting himself, his time and attention to those who can make no clam upon him, the complaisant husband meantime little caring how or where his wife amuses herself, so long aa she don't interfere with him and his amusements. Girls, go and do likewise. Marry any one, so long aa he is a man, and then you, too, will be flirted and danced with to your heart's content,