Local Intelligence.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1030, 12 May 1857, Page 3

Local Intelligence .

Caution to Shipmasters. — On Saturday, Captain Clark, of the schooner "Helen," appeared at the Court of the Resident Magistrate to answer an information laid against him by Captain Burgess, the Harbour* Master, for throwing ballast overboard in the river. Captain Clark did not deny the fact, but pleaded that the ballast had accidentally fallen over the side. This being the first cue of the kind adjudicated upon, the Court adjudged the defendant to pay the mitigated fine of 405., intimating, at the same time, that the full penalty was £20, and that subsequent offences might be more heavily visited. Local Steam Navigation Compant. — The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held on Friday list. The number present was from twenty to thirty. It was finally resolved that no further step should be taken with regard to the "Wonga," pending news from the South by the "Zingari," and that another meeting should be convened within twenty-four hours of the arrival of that steamer. Suicide. On Friday last an inquest was held at the. Masonic Hotel, before H. J. Andrews, Esq., coroner, and * jury, upon the body of David Begg, 1 ate a private in the 58th regiment, then md there lying dead. The 'deceased and another man named Johnson had been confined in the guard-room during the night of Thursday, and had lain on the same. bed. On Friday morning, about twenty minutes to nine, Johnson heard the deceased frothing at the mouth, and on turning round to look, at him. saw him draw a razor across his throat, and blood gush from the wound. He had a little previously heard deceased say, "I wish I was dead." On seeing the act, he immediately called for assistance. Dr. Thomson was promptly in attendance, but found the man dead. The Doctor, a day or two before, had been addressed by the deceased in an excited manner, and he Relieved that this excitement had been caused by drinking. The i mmediate cause of death having been deposed to, the jury returned a verdict of—" Destroyed himself by cutting his throat, with a razor while laboring under an attack of delirium treiriens."Mechanics' Institute.. — We anticipate a treat this evening. Mr. Hill has been happy in the selection of a subject, and has genius to treat it in a manner that no lover of Ireland's great national bard need be ashamed of. Choral Society. — I twill be seen from our advertising columns that the next public rehearsal of this Society will take place on the evening of Thursday next.