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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 152, 10 August 1881, Page 2

An Eccea'uric Magistrate.— Among the qoesi-ious fo hi put m the JTouse today is the ] f o] 'owing singu'nr one hy Mr. F ; an. vho intonds to ask tbc Minister of Juslic>"if he is aware that tbe Warden and Ros'drnt JT-Tn'sirate atKmua-ra, on the West Coa^t of the Middle IsliiTK'l. opens bis Courts there for the despatch oE bminess at the hoivs of 8 o'clock at niiht; tbnt-, on the l.Sth ultimo, wii bout nny emerpericy. h^tok tbe '.vidience of five or Bixyoun<j girls, themajcity of thmn not evceiiflinj; fif:een years of agi;, between such hour and ten tninu'cs past 4 o'clock the folio ving morning ; 'that su'^h Resident MniisLvate either thrcate ed to issue, or elstjpivparpfl a warr nt. at abm' 3 o'clnck m the morning of the 10th, for the?arrost of a young lady named ?.Tary June !\Tarlow. who failed to be p-esent. before h'm at th.it hour, to give cvid nee m tht; case then beimjr trind ?Tf so. what "step : (if anr) do the Government intend iotako!" Mr. Finn ba^supp'i'-d the Premier with the nnmes and ages of tho young girls and some other particulars respecting the proceedings of this Resident Magistrate. We have bpen infoimed that- onco a we°k he open-! h : s < 'ourt.at 8 p..ra. ; that witnesses are ordered out Court, arid that, as there is no ace mmodatim for them, they have to kill time ns best they may iti the strret till thuy are are called upon to give evldicnce — Post .