RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

Evening Post, Issue 270, 19 December 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

(Before C. D. R. Ward, Esq,R.M.) James Mack, was brought up for drunken ness and fined five shillings. William Knight v Charles Bull, debt £1 7s 6d— judgment for amounted costs. Ralph Le Voi v Thomas Phelan, debt 3s 6 A —summons not served. Francis Sidey v James Brown, debt £17—. settled out of court. Edward Bull v E. H. Haygarth, debt £l 10g 4<l— settled out of court. William Alexander v Jame Gee, debt £15 15s— summons not served.

The Rifleman, schooner, from Dunedm to the Grey, put in to harbour this afternoon, wind-bound. sJTWe have been favored with a copy of < ( Bull's Wellington Almanack and Mercantile Directory " for 1866. It is illustrated with a copper-plate map of the City of Wellington, of a convenient size for reference, which will prove very useful. It contains a street and trade directory, the calendar for farm and garden, post office regulations, official directory, lists of the officers of the General and Provincial Governments, statistics of great value, and a variety of general information. The book is well got up, and is published at a small cost^JJ? During the sitting, last week, of the Supreme Court at Auckland, Mr Spittle addressed the bench on behalf of a class of men who maintained themselves and families by their daily labor, that' were compelled to serve on juries, and obliged to attend the sittings from ilay to day for a fortnight or three weeks, in the hope that His Honor might remedy the grievance. Chief Justice Arney replied that the feeling was gaining ground in England that jurors were entitled to some payment, not for their services, but by way of compensation for loss of time, or inconvenience or expense occasioned. The subject might be capable of arrangement by allowing for the jurymen some such scale on account of loss of time or for expense incurred, such as were allowed to witnesses coming to give evidence. No doubt it was a great evil, and a gentleman informed him that he had to keep a man's family from actual distress during the time the head of the family was attending in Court to serve on the jury. There was a great difference in England, for there the men who were summoned to serve on the petty jury were mostly tradesmen, farmers, or others of substantial means. Here it was totally different — it was a sort of universal suffrage system ; the Judge had, however, no power to interfere in the matter. He would only recommend those who were able to serve on juries to take some action towards petitioning the leglislature on the subject. The power to change the existing mode lay with the legislature alone.— New Zealand Herald. In a paragraph in yesterday's issue, from the New Zealand Herald, an error occurs. — It is stated Chilian flour may be quoted as worth £24 per ton wholesale and £30 in small parcels— the latter should have been quoted £26. The nineteenth session of the Provincial Council of Auckland was opened on Tuesday last. In the speech which the Superintendent read, occurs the following passage :— " There is one other subject of so much importance, that I submit to you, that even the few days which can be devoted to the business of the session before the Christmas holidays, should not be allowed to pass without a strong expression of opinion on it. On the question of Separation, the Provincial Council was unanimous ; your unanimity will be of still greater significance, for it cannot be questioned that you represent the deliberate conviction of the Province after full discussion and ample consideration. Indeed, there is no doubt that at the elections just now concluded

no candidate who was not an avowed Separationist would, even if he could have found n proposer and seconder, have had the remotest chance of success. I propose that the Superintendent and Provincial Council shall adopt, and transmit, for presentation to Her Majesty, a petition expressing their conviction that a separate Government for the Northern portion of this colony is essential for its good government, and humbly praying that it may be speedily granted. (This passage was receired with cheers.)" The Southland Times reports a painful accident, which " happened some days since to a man named James Main, who was at the time working at Myross Bush, East Road, assisting Mr Charles Gardiner, of the flour and saw mills, Waihopai. It appears the sufferer hud justj ust cut through a tree of about eighteen inches in thickness, when in falling, its stem made a sudden and unexpected slide back, through its top coming in contact with another tree. The poor fellow's left foot was at the Biime moment crushed with terrific force against a stump, imprisoning him in dreadful agony. No time was lost by Mr Gardiner in obtaining assistance from a neighbour, but nothing could be done in extrication until * part of the tree had been cross-cut away, when it was found that portions of the foot were 'actually squeezed out through the boot. Dr. Deck was sent for, and upon examination decided at once upon amputation. The patient is progressing as favourably as could be expected."