MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14907, 4 March 1914, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

(Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. One first offender for drunkenness was fined os, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. John . Orton Gebbie, Evender Leith (Mr Malley), and George : Hand, for breaches of their prohibition orders, -were each fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. MAINTENANCE. Daniel Heslip was ordered to comply with the terms of an order in support of hie father, or to go to prison for one month. Frederick Prestidge (Mr Donnelly) was charged with being £50 in arrears on a maintenance order in support of his illegitimate child. The order was reduced by 2s 6d a week. Elizabeth Catherine Evans (Mr Leathern) and Elizabeth Haslemore, for disobedience of maintenance orders, were ordered to pay off the arrears on their respective orders at the rate of 2s 6d a week, in default three months' imprisonment. In the case, Annie Hobbs v. Henry William Hobbs, application for maintenance and guardianship, defendant was ordered to pay 20s a week. AFFILIATION. 1 Herbert Henderson (Mr Leathern) j was adjudged the putative father of aa illegitimate child, and was ordered to pay os towards'its support, and to find surety in £100 that ho would comply with the terms'of the order. Complainant, tor whom Mr Donnelly appeared, was only fifteen years of age. DOCTRINAL DIFFERENCES. John Whitiington (Mr Cassidy) was charged witii disobedience of a maintenance order in support of his wife, I Isabelle Whittington, and child. Dei fenuant also niacio application to vary the order. The Magistrate: This is the Seventh Day Ativeutist case. Mr Cassidy: Yes! We. say the gir! is not being brought up in the Church of England faith. I The Magistrate: The matter is very simple. Mr Justice Williams has decided that a child must be brought up in the father's religion. The father has I a clear right to' say what religion the child shall be brought up in. Coninlainant, under cioss-oxamina-I tion, said her daughter went to St. I John's Sunday School every Sunday. Mr Cassid.v: Who takes her there? —She goes herself. :■ You don't co to the Church of Encland?—No. I don't. Where does she go on Saturday?— She stays at home. The Magistrate: Do you observe Sunday on Saturday?— No. I don't. It's the Sabbath on Saturday. Are you bringing the child up as a Seventh Day Advectist?—What is there" in the Seventh Day betiefs that isn't in the Bible? The Magistrate: I'm sure I don't know. ' ' Mr Cassidy suggested that if the Magistrate would not give his client the custody of the child, it should be placed in a Home. The Magistrate (to defendant): Have you a very strong objection to tho Seventh Day Adventist teachings ? —I have. Tho case was adjourned. A WAYWARD GIRL. In the Juvenile Court, a fifteen-year-old girl was charged with being a child found wandering by night. Senior-Sergeant Mathieson said the girl had refused to give the constable her name, or tell him where she lived. Tho Matron had also failed to extract this information from the girl. The • mother of the girl said she had eighteen children, fourteen of whom were living. In reply to questions' she said j that the* girl had' a place to which to pro to work. She had been told h that she would have to help and keep 1 herself, and it had been suggested that she should go to Suckling's boot factory for a few days, to enable her to earn a little money to buy things she might require in her new situation. Tho mother added that her daughter did not want to go. "She's got an opinion of her own," ehe added. Constable Campagnolo said the girl had been found by him wandering at 11.30 p.m., on the river bank. She had told him she was gdine to jump into the river, as she was tired of life. She did not appear to be anxious to go homo, and remarked, further, that she wonld make more endeavours, to do away with, herself if she had to go back homo.

The Magistrate: There is something operating on the girl's mind. The Mother: Well, she's got a good home.

-The case was remanded for a -week for independent police enquiry, and in the meantime the girl was sent to the Salvation Army Home, J