The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1859. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 246, 19 October 1869, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1859. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before J. Sharp, Esq , R.M,

This Day.

James M'Cauliff for being drunk, and assaulting P.C. Hugh Beattie last uight, was fined £1 for being d.*uuk, and £5 and coata for assault, and ordered to pay £2 for damages done to constable's clothes.

Timothy Shea for resisting the constable in the execution of his duty, und assisting M 1 Cau I iff in assaulting him, was fined £10 and costs.

James Ramsay was given iv charge by owners of tbe schooner E. TJ. Cameron for larceny. It appeared that prisoner had been placed in charge of the schooner by the salvors, iv accordance with whose instructions he had taken the sails, rigging, &c, out of her. Prisoner was discharged, Mr. Kingdon, who appeared for the complainant's, stating that he should briug the case ou again in proper form on Thursday next.

The Late Land Purchases. — For a full and clear account of the circumstances attending the purchases of land afc Wangapeka, we refer our readers to the report of Mr. Curtis' meeting at Waimea West which appears elsewhere.

The Electba, lately arrived at Wellington, from London, brought 95 cases of Snider rifles ami 1025 packages of Snider ammunition for the General Government.

Quartz Specimens. — We have to-day seen at the Galatea Hotel two rich sp°cimens of auriferous quartz, which have been brought in lately, one from the head of the Maitai and the other from the Dun Mountain Range. No doubt Bomethiug more will be heard from these localities before long.

The Wangapeka Quartz Reefs. — The excitement consequent upon the late discoveries in the Wangapeka was by no means allayed by the arrival in town this morning of two men from that district who report that the reefs, which, they say, are very numerous, have every appearance of being exceedingly rich. A rush has set in from all parts ofthe country and we understand that the purchases lately made at the Laud Office are not recognised by the diggers, who are busily employed in pegging off claims in all directions. We shall look witb much auxiety for the report of Mr. Burnett whose arrival in town is expected on Friday next.