PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY.—Present: Hon. J. J. Carnegie (Chairman), J. H. Waddington and G. Forbes, Esqrs., Sir W. Knighton, Bart., and Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart.
— Extinction of Common Rights.—Mr. Rogers, from the office of Mr. Roy, solicitor to the Portsmouth Railway Company, applied to the magistrates to appoint a valuer to assess the amount of compensation to be paid by the said Company to persons entitled to certain commonable rights which had been extinguished by the construction of the Portsmouth railway in the parishes of Buriton and Idsworth. Formal evidence having been given in each case of the due publication of notices of meetings by advertisement in the Hants Telegraph, and of the service of like notices on J. Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P., and Sir J. C. Jervoise, Bart., M.P, the Lords of the respective Manors, and Mr. Rogers having deposed that in each case he attended, but there was no meeting held, the magistrates, under the power vested in them by the statute, appointed Mr. Samuel Minchin, of this town, as the valuer, who was therefore sworn into office.
— A highway rate for the parish of Petersfield was signed.
— Robert Kingshott was charged, on the information of P.C. George Wythe, with stealing, on Sunday, the 8th of April, a quantity of turnip greens, belonging to Mrs. Mary Martin, in the parish of Chalton. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 2s., with costs 7s. 6d., and damages 6d.
— Chares Hammond was summoned for non-payment of two poor’s rates of 7s. 9d. and 15s. 6d., making together 1l. 3s.3d., due to the Overseers of the parish of Catherington. The case was proved by Mr. Henry Glasse, Assistant Overseer, and an order was made for payment with 6s. 6d. costs, with an understanding that the issuing of a distress warrant should be delayed for a week.
— Mr. Atkinson applied to the Bench respecting a portion of the highway in the parish of Hawkley, which upon an information laid by Mr. Superintendent Fey, was viewed by two Magistrates in the month of March last and reported by them to be out of repair, and an order was made upon the surveyor to put it in repair within a fortnight. Mr. Atkinson alleged that such order had not been satisfactorily complied with, and requested the Magistrates to direct Mr. Superintendent Fey again to inspect the same, which was accordingly done.
— Mr. Henry Glasse, Clerk to the Board of Guardians of the Catherington Union, applied for an order for the removal of two children of Charles James Smith, the younger, from the parish of Idsworth to the parish of St. Peter’s or Sub Deanery, at Chichester; he called Charles James Smith, the elder, who deposed that he was born in the parish of St. Peter’s, at Chichester; that at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a bricklayer in the same parish, that he was married there, and that his son, Charles James, was born there, who afterwards married a person at Idsworth and went to live there; but he (witness) was not aware that he ever gained a settlement in that parish. Mr. Glasse deposed that on the 14th of February last the two children in question aged respectively three and five years, became chargeable to the parish of Idsworth, in the Catherington Union, and were now in the Union Workhouse. Order made for removal.
— Henry Carpenter was brought up under remand, on a charge of arson (as reported last week) and further remanded till Monday next.
— Henry Waddey was brought up in custody, and confessed to be a deserter from the Sea Lark. Mr. Superintendent Fey stated that he had communicated with the authorities and was waiting their reply, and asked for a remand until next day. Remanded.