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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 71, 21 September 1877, Page 2

The sitting of the Resident Maghtrute's Court fixed for to»day has been adjourned to Tuesday next. A special sitting of the Court | will be held on tlio 28kh instaiv. Weather permitting, the first cricket practise of the season will be played in Srv-ith's Paddock, on. Saturday afternoon next. Wickets to be pitched at 2.30. All playor3 are requested to. attend. We have been requested to point out the great convenience it would be to suitors attending the local Courts if a rule were made to call ou and dispose of undefended cases before going into tliose in which counsel are employed. Ifc not infrequently happens uuder the present system that suitors whose business with the Bench is a matter of two or three minutes, are kept hanging about the Court for several hours to their great personal inconvenience. A cause list posted up at the door of tho Court house vottl I likewise- be a further guide to suitors. These are forms which are followed in moat of the Courts in the colony, and we feel swe that they need only to be mentioned'to bo acted upon bere. Cases of repudiation of instructions tobrokers in relation to transactions in mining shares have, happily, been of rare occurrence in Reefton, but we regret to learn that a case of this kind kas j.ust occurred which, it is not improbable,, will shortly com© before the Court. Of tkfl merits- of the case we at present know nothing, and therefore withhold names. Charges-o-f this character, however, when rightly founded reflect no credit, uivl it is to be hoped tliat the one in question may find amicable adjustment. We ave informed that an amateur concert entertainment ami ball, in aid of the funds of the Local' Hospital will shc-i'tly. be started. Tlie near prospect of. n* resumption of crushing operations by the Ifopol'ul Company at Boatmen's has once more brace-1 up tho price of shnret', and brought the mine ag-'in into prominent notice. As tlw stone for future erushuigs will bo taken chiefly from, the northern portions of t!i« mine yields quito rtyiui),. if indeed, not in exci'ss of any {11 the past are looked forward to sanguinly. A* the future ovush.ings o-f this 00-mpuny will largely aflect tlwj ili'stiny of iho other convpu'iiiM on the same Line, the interest now centered upon the "•cooiiiag event" may be understoodO'ur Jockey ( 11!) will need: to bo up and d'oinjj if tho ensuing Christmas races are to bj inude u suuoi-sSk T!ve Christinas programmeof the Westliand'Eiicing Club lias tilivaJy been prepared and is^MiWislwiW The Residen-S S'Pagietrate at: Clii'i^tcliurch, Mr.. Melliah, ha*broug!it upo<i himself the ire of the hyttelton Times for relusing to. commit for triul a man named Neediiami charged witha- most disgusting offencp. Mv Mellisb,. at the magisterial investigation expressed the conviction that "no count would 15e '" in the Supremo Court against the accused, and there* fore dealt with the case summarily inflicting tho heaviest punishment allowable* The Times regards thfl punishment as altogether inadequate to the gravity of tho offonce,. and expresses tho opinion that justice has- most lameatubly miscarried. It is urged thnt the Magistrate, in dealing, with tho case, had noriglst whatever to rnfuse to send tho case to the Supreme Court for fine reason assigned. Whether a- count would or would not, in> his opinion, lie ngahist the accused was beyond his- functions to consider. While we entirely concur- with these remarks, wo are aware that there a»e some- great authorities upon tha poiut, who. regard the "natter differently, We have received the following telegram 1 — The Batavia and Singapore cable interrupted, K.O' dweeb communication with Europe, steamers leave B'atavia foe Singapore on September 2.oth, and October 4th, arrive at B'afcayja. from Singapore, September 27th, and October 13;th. There are also* occasional steamers." —C. Lemon. A good dsal of excitement was ocoa^ioned on Wednesday last in consequence of the re<» ceipt of intelligence ef the striking of the reef in the north' drive of the- Wi\ D'esperandura Company. The Company adjoins the Keep. it-Dark Company's lease-. The stone is said to be of good quality. Shares in the Com* pany, which up to the beginning of the present week,, stood at. from 2* (3d to 3s 6d at oncoadvanced to 4a 6J, and sales are reported a& high, as sa. Our reporter will visit the mine-! as soon as sufficient work has beeo. done to. allow of a raliable opinion being formed as- to. the exact nature and value of the discovery which will not be until about Monday next. The sad intelligence which we publish elsewhere of the sudlen affliction which has. fallen upon tho family of his Honor Judge Westoo, will, wo are- sure, be read with the deepest sorrow. As indicating the progress of that most dreadful of all scourges to infantile life—scarlet fever—it may be stated that for months past evory possible precaution was taken in bis Honor's family to guard iigainst the contagion, but unhappily it j would appear all to no purpose, and an eldest son and daughter have fallen victims to its ravages. Tlio friends of JoJgo Weston in this district sympathise deeply with him in his loss. A strange claim wra lately made in the Akaroa Resident Magistrate's Court bf an ex-liotelkeeper n imed Shtidbolt, well known in. the locality., ilo suoJ ta.o liceu^o of an

hotel, of which he himself is the owner, a->d I was for many years tbo tenmt, for £100 damages, on the ground that the defendant bad allowed the plaintiff's soc (nged seventeen) to play at cards in the house. Judgment wa9 given for defendant. Tho Auckland Evening Star says:— The account presented by Mr Beale, of the firm of Lusk and Beale, solicitors to the Education Board, it a fitting climax to that miserable expedient of a bankrupt Threasury known as the Education Rate. Since Mr Beale, the partner of the Chairman of the Board, undertook the work of collecting arrears fourteen buudred householders have been worried by summonses and law process, ( with the net result of £1039, the whole of which was appropriated by ibe lawyer for costs of recovery, leatiug the Board still £iAL ' in debt. '