RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Tuesday, 20th April, 1869. (Before Thomas Windle Parker, Esq., R.M.)

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Tuesday, 20th April, 1869. (Before Thomas Windle Parker, Esq., R.M.)

•ToiHi Buptiulo wuh clmi'god with stealing from tlio promisor oi Muhhim Booth Bran, thrco i>uii*h of boois, ono pnir ol' tcoufloro, ono bag bum, ono bug filmrps, ono l»ig wliont, an<i two buoUb, in all of tlio value of Ji5 17b. Prisonor pleudoil guilty, mid wnn rcinmulod until Friiluy for bouIohco, 10 allow Hcnrch lo bo uiado of Iub prciinoua.

CIVIL C\B)3. Sumptor v. Harm. — Claim L10 1 1«. Oil., for rockIb oold and delivered. Judgment for plaint ill", with I'Ja. cosls. Headland v. Moldrum.— Claim L7 17,i. Cd., for f;oodai>olil and dohvoiocl. Judgment for pltvintill' with 13a. cosl«. JTudHOii v. Wiituon. — Olaiin L12 I'liu, for poods Bold mid dolivoi'od. Judgment for phimtift' for L2 und 1 ( Jb. coat'i.

Tho " Bruco Standard" is " eovry to Bay Hint tho foul erimo of incondiaiifjm ocohis to have begun in tliut diwtriot. On Friday morning, about (5.-10 a.m., u wheat Btiu'k was on firo onlho farm of MrGoodall, ut Uio oust eitlo of tho fJniu, Tliia wuu tlio flouond utaok of (i row of six, containing in tho whole upwards of 2000 IhibIioIb. L' a oi tunivtoly it was notiood in tinio by piutio» on Mr iiiirnos' farm, who promptly wont to tho npofc, and by grout oxortion and tho liberal ubo of water, euccocdod in puttting out tho tiro, a portion, ivboub 0 fcot wido by 8 ibit high being burnod, or nocossivry to bo rcmovod from ono oido j and oven whon tho longlh of tho outddo row of bIiouvou wnt3 romovod, tho oikIh of eomo of tho Bocond row woro found to bo burnod. Tboro whb nono of tho eido burnod lowor thiin 4> foot from tho ground. Thu only partios on tho furm ut tlio timo woro Mru Tiirnbull, n widow, and throo young oliiklron. Tlio olvildron woro ull in bod, wliilo Mru 'Lumbull wits bimy milking her cowa in tho block-yiu-cl. Tho dwallmg-hoii30 is completely dolaohod from tho Hlacka," A report lonchod the polico fit Wnipovi on tho ovening of Saturday lntit, that a Chiuamau had boon dijcovoiod lying do.ul in u hut in tho vicinity of tho Black Hook. Tho i-iory win to tho oil'not that tho inl'orinant had been travelling tho district, nnd that tho niglit provioun ho got bonightod in tho rnrif;cB. Wandering down a gully ho discovorcd a ligfit, tirul In following; it up lio lounil Hint it proccodod fiom tho oiovict'H of ono of two hutu. Attoi* knocking at tlio door, and rocoivin^ uo answer, he forced an ontranco, wlion, to his surpnso, ho found tho doud body of a (Jhiimman lying on a Dlrotuhor and oix muidloa burning around it. Tho candles had apparently been burning a How hours, but no traco was iound of any ono in tho vicinity. Tho utory io considered an improbable ono j still Coiifltablo J)unn procoodod tho following day to tho placo indicated to make enquiries into tho mattor. Tho rcwult had not transpired when our informant loft. — Duily Tiinoo, 21 at inst.