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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 19 March 1908, Page 5

It is notified that Mr. Mandeno Jack- i son. -will offer by auction at his rooms,, Customs-street, at 11 o'clock to-morrow, the 'Biverside Estate" at Ararimu South, consisting of 1515* acres, two fruit and poultry farms of 20 and 30 acres each at and 6-roomed houses; allotment in Dedwood-terrace, with residence of 10 rooms and two concrete houses; residence of seven rooms, "with 52ft to Valley-road; a building section 40ft to Valley-road; and at one o'clockthe ■wellknown cutter Ifary Hellene, with all fittings.

The "Tuapeka Times" reports a sensational accident. As Mr. A. M'Pherson's waggon, driven by J. Perrow, was descending the Beaumont side of the Big Hill about 8 o'clock on Thursday nigsS* the brake failed to and the waggon, loaded with about five tons of general merchandise, got way on and forced the horses into a gallop. After going some distance one of the leaders, fell ajid brought down others of the team, and the heavily-laden waggon was brought to a standstill by running on to them. Two horses were lolled outright, and one had its leg broken, and had to be destroyed. As the team consisted ol nine horses, the confusion in the darkness, can well be imagined. Messrs. Fletcher, Moore, and A. Fraser, who were returning from the licensing meeting at Roxburgh, happened to be near at hand at the time of the accident, and rendered the driver all the assistance possible under the circumstances.

No doubt it is but fair that a man charged with a serious offence should have the right of trial by his peers, but there are occasions when valuable time and not a little money are lost by setting the machinery of the Supreme Court in motion over what is really a trivial matter. This was well exemplified in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, when a man, charged with disobedience of an order for the maintenance of his wife, elected to be tried by a jury, although the arrears involved amounted to only £3. Mr. P. Jackson, who appeared to prosecute, endeavoured to remonstrate with the man, but to bo purpose. "But it is absurd, your Worship," said Mr. Jackson, "to send a case like this to the Supreme Court." "Quite so," answered Mr. Eiddell, S.M., "but the law gives him the right to a trial by jury, and if he likes to claim it I can do nothing else but allow him to exercise it." And now the case will have to be taken by the Magistrate, after which, it will have to be heard again at the next criminal session, by which time probably the money spent on it would pay off "tke arrears ten times or over.