RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 16, 22 March 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day. [Before J. Poynter, Esq., R. M.] Civil Cases. Houston v. Eatcnelor.—Claim, £1 Bs. for goods supplied.. Judgment by default tor plaintiov . . -.:•■_: Hounsell v: Cheeseman —Claim, £1615.2d. Judgment by default for plaintifil ■ '- -!••.>..', ,• „ Houston v. Godfrey.— Claim, £a 17s. 6d. Judgment for plaintiffs ..■..,. .. . ■ ? „ ..; Eppk v. Ollivier.— Claim, £J0 1 6a. 4d , balanco diie from- accouut- sales. Judgment for .plaiatiff-for: amo^t <iaimßd.:oMr.,Adi»Bafl/&r-p\aifttii£Trt .uw!; >iij

fcl&inen'M&'Qo'.-v. HudoiestbnV— Claim, 7 "JETO fTSs'.* r fbr'two sold. Defendant admitted JE1O" 10a. which he had paid into Court. He denied that the sum claimed was that which was bargained for. Plaintiff called a witness, Mr. Ashburn, who said defendant made no objection to the account when it was- rendered, nor till very lately. Defendant affirmed that after the bargain was made plaintiff said. he must charge an extra ss. for boring, which was agreed to. When the tanks were delivered the holes were found to be not bored but cut in with a chisel. Defendant on this ground objected to pay the extra 55., the tanks being depreciated in value. To this plaintiff replied, there was no such thing as boring tanks, they were all punched ; and Harry, the man who did it, was a first-rate blacksmith, and not such a muff as defendant supposed. Judgment £10 10s. Kendall v. Field. — Claim, £2 2s. for wages. Two days' 'wages had been paid into court, the rest was disputed, on the ground that plaintiff had let his employer's horse run away, after having been cautioried to tie it up. The court.adjourned for half an hour, to admit of the" 'election of Governors of Nelson College. Oh the court resuming, the defendant gave evidence to show that the plaintiff had no claim, in consequence of the damage caused by the horse running, away. The 'Magistrate held that the man, if not wilfully'careless, was not responsive fur ali ilia uiui'age. He gave judgment for 145., the amount oi' the two d:iys' pay. Field v. Shuttleworth. — In this case Mr. Pitt :ipplied.for a suspension of execution, to which the court could not consent. SHUEP STEALING. Hans Fanzelow eheep-farmer in Wairau Valley, was charged by John Jeffrey's, with stealing seven of his sheep on 2Gth February last. Mr. Kingdon, who appeared for the prosecutor, said the case arose out of that which came before the bench on Saturday last. Mr. Pits defended the accused. ' ' • • • James Wallace was the first witness called. His evidence was in substance, the same that he gave at the ; iast examination. Tt went to show that he saw the accused with a mob of forty sheep, some of which he claimed as his own, and some of which were found to belong to the prosecutor. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Pitt, as to his knowledge of the ear marks of the various sheep owners in the district, without inducing him to swerve from the statements he had previously made. Patrick Marten and Mr. Jeffries having been examined, the accused was remanded till to-morrow, at half-past ten a.m. LARCENY. Wra, M'Grath was remanded till to-morrow, on a charge of stealing 15 sovereigns irom a person at the Albion Hotel. THIMBLE RIGGING. Michael Ward was remanded till to-morrow, on a charge preferred by Sergeant Nash, of defrauding her Mujesty's subjects, at the race course, by means of the pea and thimble trick.

A Lady Hisshd odt of a Theatre. — In a notice of the opening of the Strand Theatre, London, on Saturday evening, the Morning Post writes : — " In the course of the evening an incident occurred to which we have some delicacy in alluding, but which as being, so far as we know, wholly without precedent in' an English theatre, and also as intimating censorship of manners in a quarter where, according to conventional estimate, refinement is least to be expected, should not, perhaps, be suffered to pass ■without notice. In the stalls which were occupied for tre most part by ladies and gentlemen, manifestly of good social position, and all dressed in the evening costume, there was seated, in company with a friend, a tall and remarkably pretty women, ihe extraordinary lowness of whose dress was a general subject of observation, and obviously gave great scandal to the audience, among the female portion of whom a painfx\ sensation was clearly perceptible. At last public indignation iound expression in a brief emphatic form. No sooner had the curtain fallen on the first play, than there was heard from the gallery a voice uttering in slow and well-measured accents an injunction which could be intended but for. one person in the vast assembly. Pale with emotion, yet still retaining her gentle placid 100k — for their was no taint of immodesty in her demeanour — she quitely drew her opera cloak over her shoulders, and then tied it tightly round her neck. . In a few minutes afterwards, she rose from her seat, and leaving behind her her friend,, a. uiudestly dressed woman, "walked . out of the house, amid hisses i'rbmJthe gallery and Btera^sileucey not l«s» eloquent, in the stalls and b0xe5,'' :...;...., -„..., •,, . , .■ . 4 - v ..

A man! named Oakley was charged before the Liverpool (Magistrates with bigamy. He had received £1,030 with his first wife, mid £200 with the j second. The prisoner appealed to the Court for j sympathy on the ground that he was an old man and required a younger wife to cheer him, but the Court was inexorable. The elections in the Province of Auckland are at an end, the only contest being for Marsden. The old member, Mr. John Monro, retired in Mr. J. Taylor's favor ; but the election resulted in the latter gentleman's defeat, notwithstanding. Mr. Hull, of Mangawai, who has been returned, has pledged himself to support the Auckland party in the House of .Representatives. — Auckland Weekly News. DurßisciATiox of Sydney Haubor. — Some time since a commission was appointed by the Governor, to examine the condition of the harbor of Port Jackson, and report as to the supposed injury arising from the city sewerage matter tilling up portions, and lessening the deptli of the water. The commission consisted of o:u,.aiu Kidney, li.N.. Mr. Suialley, Mr. Moriarty, Mr. Hixson, and Mi*. Watson. They have just presented a progress report to his Excellency, which is published in the Sydney papers. It presents rather an alarming view o( the deteriorating condition of the harbor. As in the case of Morpeth, so at Sydney, the various streets opening on to the harbor "are means of constantly injuring it, by filth and rubbish of all. sorts sweeping down into the water in times of rain, while the city sewerage emp-. tying into the harbor, without any attempt to prevent the solid portions from accompanying the liquid, a mucli more rapid depreciation is proceeding at these points. Altogether, the .commissioners report that not only is the depth of water diminishing, but that the available space for vessels to lie in deep water is also constantly lessening. The preliminary steps to the construction of the, " Southern Trunk Railway" from Dunedin to Balclutha, have been taken by the solicitors for the line. It is to commence at a point, a little to the southward of the toot of High-street, on the reclaimed land. ar.d is to proceed by way of Cavcrsliam, Green Island, Taieri, Warkata, and to Tokomairiro, and so to the Glut ha township. . . _ The Russian note rbrgers have been tried at the . Old Bailey, convicted and sentenced to various penal terms. Millions of five rouble notes have been. so. skilfully manufactured as to pass unchallenged for.. a. length of time in Russia. . . - ■•• A friend was telling one evening where he had been .■dining, and what he got to eat. ."There .was .one , article I never saw before ; none of you could guess . ; what it was— it was a soup made -of calves.' '.tails.'.' ' Extremes n^e«t," was Jen-old's remark.- , . ■;',

A"'LA.wiwp";S^Li;'.^-aM"reMnded : '6fa'sfofy'"of a very languid Guardsman, who once aux- abois at hot kuuwing how to passthe evening r strayed- into •• 1 that dreadful cave of Despair, now happily defunct, the Great Globe in Leicester Square. The commissionare for the nonce was a pale fluent lecturer, in .. spectacles, and with a very luxuriant head of hair.As he went on, waving his long wand, and gossipping about the Bight of Benin and the Gulf of Carpentaria,..* the languid Guardsman grew dreamy, ana at last remraked, quite ,' innocently, "That's all very well; but where do you net your hair curled!" The-; remark was not to the point, but was pardonable perhaps, under the circumstances. — Mr. JSala. -;" . , •