RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 129, 4 June 1881, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THrs Dat. [Before Mr. Edward Shaw, R.M.] A FATHER AND HIS CHILDREN. George Perri3 denied a charge of failing 1 to adequately provide for the support of hi» daughter Eliza, aged 14. It was stated that tho defendant neglected his children, who wore motherless, in a shameful manner ; leaving them without animal food for days at a time, and ill-using them whonhecamo home in a drunken condition— a not infrequent occurrence. He was convicted on tba information, and ordered to enter into his own recognisance of JBSO to appear for sontonce on Wednesday next. DISOBEYING A MAINTENANCE ORDER. John M'Gregor wa^ charged with failing to comply with an order of tho Conrt to pay jCI per week towards the maintenance of his wife and three children, the arrears amounting to £8. Mr. Brandon, jun., appeared for the prosecution. It transpired that the defendant was possessed of a certain piece of land in Abel Smith-street, of the value of .£500; and his Worship strongly recommended Mr. Brandon to make an application to bring thi3 property into Court, in order that it might go for the benefit of the family. This recommendation Mr. Brandon adopted, and the information was adjonrned for four weeks CARRYING A LOADED REVOLVEB AT PAHATJTAM3I. Gordon Phillips appeared on remand, chargod with being a rogue and a vagabond, in that on the Ist instant, at Pahautanni, ho wa3 armed with a loaded revolver with a felonious intent. Mr. Allan appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Gully to defend. The prisoner was further charged with assaulting John Lenney, storekeeper. It appeared that on the night of Wednesday last, the prisoner, who was on horsaback, prilled up ii front of Lonney's residence, and demanded of him a rug, whose ownership was in dispute, saying he would have the rug or satisfaction that night. Ihe prisoner also presented what appeared to be a revolver at Lenney's head, bhortly afterwards he was arrested by Constable Lyeter with a loaded revolver in Ir.s possession. For tho defence it was urged that the prisoner had no felonious intent. His Worship remarked that if one man presented a revolver at another, even without firing it off, it constituted felonious

intent for tho purpose* of the clause of tho Act, which was framed to prevent persons from flourishing such weapons in other people's faces. The prisoner said he had been accustomed to carry a r«volvor with him owing to his dealings with the Maoris. Eventually, Mr. Shaw considered the end's of justice would be met by a conviction for tho a3sault, for which tho prisoner would bo fined £2 and cests, in default 28 days' hard labor, and a conviction without sentence on the other charge. Tho prisoner was further ordered to enter into his own recognizance of .£IOO, and find one surety for a similar amount, to keop the peace for six months.