RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1768, 2 September 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAT.

(Before James Kilgous and. E. W PtrcKEY, Esqs., J.P's.j " , ' NEGLECTED CHILDREN. :. Michael Breen was brought up on warrant to show cause why he should not contribute towards the support of his child at the Industrial School.

It will probably be remembered that in this case the defendant was i previously called before the Court on the like account;, he did not then appear, however, and a warrant was ordered to issue fei his apprehension. - Breen said his means would liot. per mit of his giving more than Is per week He was working at r Webb's (framway battery, and earned, on an average, no more than £2 16s per week. He hac a wife and six children, aqjlwas thei sole support. , ■\* -, Mr. Bullen said it was in the power Q the Bench, at any time, to increase the sun if the parents, were found to be in a posi tion to bear it. ■ His instructions wen not to ask for such a contribution as woul be likely tojembarrass the parties; but shilling a week was decidedly very smal An order was made for Is per week t be pa.id into Court once per month? A SIMIL.A.B CASE.''

Bridget Curtis, alias Gardiner, w< called upon to contribute towards toe'sii] port of children (two) of whioh she wi the mother,- now ininatei of St. Mary Orphanage, Auckland. „. Mrs. Curtis said she was not in a poi tion, to support her children. , ; ••, :- Mr. Bullen said the woman had bee under the impression that she was n liable to contribute, as the children tre ,in \St.; Mary's Orphanage ; but th» o phanago had been by proclamation const tuted an industrial sohool for thepr yince of Auckland;..and he had \>Po)j structed to'pressi foj? a recognition, ha .BTer.sinall, of the tights 'i\V- -• :

The woman said ihe had no means. Her husband haft "disserted her, and slit; had two children to maintain. She was living ••■with -a-man, \ who .would,. Jipweveii, bnlyprovido' 1 support for his" own' offifld. She had had four ehildi-en fn'the convent before, but" liad^neyer been brought up to Court. ....'.. ■. . '■ Mr. Bullon said that explained what '■■ hehad-said. Th« convent,: a private,in|siitutlon, bad eventually become over,- ------•■ tburdcncdwith: children which rendered it necessary that support should bo looked °rThe Bench.told Mrs. Curtis, that.were her circumstances to'improve, 'She" in\rst contvibutQ something; ai.it.was only faiiSaf Sprits -; should <&6i /s6mething towards tho support of their children. •UhdeV-tlie present circumstances,? tho case,would bo dismissed, and no order made/u^ ' ''• ■- ' " ,'. !- , ' : The Cfejirfc then adjourned. ;