THE KARAKA GOLDFIELD. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) March 4.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3319, 6 March 1868, Page 3

THE KARAKA GOLDFIELD. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) March 4.

John Carpenter was apprehended by detective Crick charged with stealing the sum of £48 from Peter Guilhyle. Frank Furlong, examined, stated: A person named Rodger* gare me «ome information in my own hotel, the Reefers' Arms, in comeqnence of which I went outride of the bouse, and brought the prisoner back. I told him to give me the money he had taken away from that man. He said he had not got it. I again demanded the money. He said it was in hit boot. Kodgera pulled his boot off, and there I found a roll of £1 notes. I then demanded the pocket-book. Be put hi* hand inside his shirt, and pulled out a pocket-book, in- which I found one £10 note and four £5 notes. The pocket-book produced is a similar one to that given to me by prisoner. 1 retained the pocker-book. and notes in my possession until I gave them te constable Wallace. I know nothing to connect Keid with the robbery.— The Court: You are acquitted, Keid; you can stand down.— By prisoner : £18 were taken from the boot*. Wallace counted them. When I brought yon back, you were coming towards the house. You twice refused to give the money up when L asked you. — W. Wallace deposed : lam a constable, stationed at' Shetland. From information I received from the last witness on Wednesday, February 26. T want to the Reefers' Arms Hotel, when Francis Furlong, in the presence of the prosecutor, handed me a pocketbook. Proseoutor said, * ' That ia my pocketbook ; I can swear to it." I produce the pocketbook, which contains one £10 note, four £5 notes, and eighteen £1 notes.— Committed for trial. £Btfow J. lt4.orAT, B«q., 8.M., and A. Baxllm, Eiq , J.P.I Before the business of the Court commenced, Mr. Mackay stated that, in consequence of a recent decision given in the Supreme Court of Auckland, there appeared to be some misunderstanding with regard to miuers' rights signed by himself. Tbere is nothing in the Act to render illegal any miner|a right i«t-ued from this office; and the fact of hit being held responsible to the Government and to the natives for the money paid for those miners' rights shows that he is the right person to sign such documents. Moreover, he was some time back appointed Warden in another part of this c«>lony, and such appointment has never been cancelled. On those grounds he warned all persons who had jumped shares in claims under the supposition tLafc they were not the hollers of miners' rights to at once give up poression to the proper owners, or otherwise they would be prosecuted and punished with the utmost rigour of th« law. (Applause in Court suppressed.) There also, he went on to state, seemed to be some doubt about the existence of a duly-cinstitnted Warden a Court in this distiiot. He considered this place tobe within the prescribed limits of the Coromandel goldtield gazetted 1863, and that a duly-constituted Warden's Court exists here ; but, to remove any doubt in the matter, all mining cases would be tried in the Resident Magistrate's Court. The following case was then, by cansent of all parties interested, heard in the Resident Magistrates Court : —

MckAACS AN© PARTY Y. FLANIGAN AND PARTY. —Mr. Hesketh for plaintiffs, and Mr. D,odd ior defendants.—Thia action {was brought to recover pog. ■estioa of a portion of plaintiffi' ol«im wtuate on the W»ipatukahu or Tapu Creek. After hearing the evidence of Richard Robert Graham, Henry Binni, and John Wilson, the case was withdrawn at the request of plaintiffs' «olicitor, each parly paying it* 1 own costs.

MoISAAOS AND PAMT V, LONG AND PABTT.— Mr. Hesketh for plaintiffs, Mr. Macdonald for defencUnts. Court left littintj.

Among good dinner-givers I mmt not omit the eccentric Lord Dudley, who was so absent that he unconsciously uttered aloud hit private thoughts, in a manner, too, that was often embarrassing to the object of them, who was within hearing. The host \fould enter th« room where hit guests were auembled, and, without addressing either, proceed to count them orer in a sta«e whisper, uttering, " One, two, three— Ah ! there's the Colonel with his mulberry nose !— four, five— that's Jones ; don't seem much put out about that awkward affair about his wife !— ■ix, seven, eight-Old Billy, the rilly !— nine, tenwonder if that fella w has paid Truefitt for bis wig !— eleven, twelve, thirteen— the baronet J His lady don't know about that little French girl of his, I'll lay a guinea." Having in thU original manner ascertained that all had arrived who were iuvibed, the too«com. municative ho«t would break the painful silence by singling out some one for a welcome, invariably accomplied by an "aside" that as much confused the friend he thus distinguished as it amused, the rest. " How do, Bogers ? Glad to see you— very glad— « devilish yellow about the gill* IBy Jote, hw face looks m if i y had been modelled in beenrtx 1