Mrs Farley, who made an application to the Bench the previous day with respect to a little child which had been left in her care, and abandoned by its parents, again came before the Magistrate, and said she had given to the police all the information in her power. Sergeant Partly said the applicant had been to him. but she could, or would, give but little information. If the applicant were really in earnest, and would lay tlic necessary information, he thought the mother of the child could be found. — His Worship : Tt is the father of tlic child that should ho found. I cannot make an order on the mother. Does the applicant say she knows nothing about either the father or the mother.’ What is the age of the child .’—The applicant said she was afraid the father was a worthless, drunken fellow, that was no good to anybody. She believed that the mother had another young baby in arms. The child was two years ohi. —Sergeant Purdy : I think, your Worship, that if the applicant would tell us all she knew of the whereabouts of the mother of tlic child, we might through the mother find the father.—His Worship thought the appli cant would hardly take the child from a person who was wholly a stranger. She must know something of the antecedents of one or both the parents.—The applicant only knew that the mother had been a servant in Queen-street. Believed she was in G rahatns town. Believed the father’s name was Ingham.—His Worship directed that the police should make inquiries in Grahamstowu and liivcrhcad. Also, that information should be obtained at what age the Orphan Home took in children. It was very sal t:> sec a child of such a tender age knocked about from one to another. He feared that the mother who could abandon such a child was no better than the father. Perhaps tlic applicant would keep tlic child until Satur day, when lie would hear her again, and dis pose of tlic matter finally. The police would lie in possession bv that time of some further inhumation. — X. /.. He mid. 