Monday, June 28.

Southland Times, Issue 2143, 30 June 1875, Page 2

Monday, June 28.

(Bofore His Worship tho Mayor and T. Perkins, Esq., J.F.)' Two young men, whose goaTal habits were said to be characterised with stea iinesa and industry, were oharged with having had " a drop too much," but, on account of the character they boro, they were dismissed. Henry Howson, charged with beinj,' drunk and disorderly in the public streets, was fined ss, with tho usual alternative. Henry Harris was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the public streets, and, being an old offender, he was finoil 20s; in default, 7 days' imprisonment with hard labor. Agnes Robertson, a girl about 14 years of age, was charged with escaping from the Industrial School at Look.out Point, near Dunedin. Inspector Fox stated that gometime ago the girl's father, who was a widower, complained that he could not control the child, one of the reasons, he averred, btiug that he had to go from home to gel work. The girl was then sent to the Industrial School, from which she had now escaped, and | he would aak that she might be sent back. He might state that the child had not literally broken awaj from the school, inasmuch as ! she had been kept there only a fortnight, had then bee.i sent to service in Dunedin, and it was from this that she escaped, while being under the guardianship of the school. She had coma down in the steamer Express on Sunday, and had been arrested at halfpast 10 o'clock on the eyening of that day by Constable Mee,

( The girl stated that a friend of her father's, I living in Dunedin, had paid hor passage to lnvercargill. The Benoh said she must go back to the Industrial School, and observed that a fortnight was too short a time to keep tho girl in the school prior to sondin? her out to service — that was if the aim of the institution was to effect any improvement in the girl's character. Oortainly the authorities ot the Institution hid a right to know their own business, and it was probably their custom to deal with neglected oh'Hren in that war ; but, j under any circumstances, a fortnight was not a sufficient time to keep a child in the school, and then to send it out to service. W. Flynn was charged with threatening to burn the Winton Hotel on the 25th instant. He denied tho charge, but after hearing the case, the Bench bound him over to keep tke peace for six m himself in £40, and two sureties of £20 each.