MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 678, 29 July 1865, Page 3

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office, Wellington, 30th June, 1865. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments, * i<s. : — In the Tarjnaki Militia.

Lieutenant Arthur Standish, to be Captain. Date of Commission, 3rd March, 1865. William Tatton, to be Lieutenant. Date of Commission, 17th May, 1865. Thomas Kelly, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 17th May, 1865. Louis Von Rotter, to be Ensign. Date of Com. mission, 14th June, 1805. Henry William Northcroft, to be Ensign. Date of Commission, 28th June, 1865. In the Neiu Zealand Militia.

Captain Robert Parris, to be Major, (unattached.) Date of Commission, 6th May, 1365. Lieutenant Charles P. Sisson, Taranaki Militia, to be placed on the unattached list. H. A. Atkinson.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Picton, Monday, July 10. (Before G, L. Mellish, Esq., R.M.) Stanley v. Hewitt.

The defendant was charged with having, on Friday, the 7th instant, whilst in the employment of Mr. Stanley, wilfully, unlawfully, and falsely engaged herself to Mrs. Beauchamp, against the Statute.

Defendant pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. H. C. Stanley, on his oath, deposed that the defendant was in his employment, and on the night in question she left his house and did not come back.

Mrs. Arthur Beauchamp, on her oath, deposed : I told Mrs. Stanley that the defendant offered her services to me on Friday, tho 7th instant. Mrs. Stanley, on her oath, deposed that the defendant was in her house on the 6th instant. Defendant got leave from her to go out that night. She stayed out till quarter past ten o'clock. She came in at that hour.

By the defendant : I never told you that if you stayed out so late at night, that I should lock you out. Sarah Bentley, on her oath, deposed that I was along with the defendant, on the night in question, from 7 o'clock to 11 o'clock. The next day I want with the defendant to Mrs. Stauloy for the defendant's clothes. I know tho defendant did not engage herself to Mrs. Beauchamp. Judgment for £20, with 10s. costs, or to be imprisoned in the common gaol for the space of two months with hard labour.

The Act by which the defendant was convicted states that the informant is entitled to half the penalty $ and Mr. Stanley being the informant in this case, gave his half of the penalty, £10, to the defendant.