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Otago Daily Times, Issue 101, 13 March 1862, Page 4

The District Court stands adjourned to eleven o'clock in the tforenoou of Saturday next, His Honor having intimated, yesterday, that owing to the clerk having inadvertently mislaid some papers connected with a case remanded for judgment, the decision of tlie Court must be deferred until that time. Tlie sittings in this Court yesterday were protracted to twenty minutes before four o'clock. We refrain from publishing a summary for transmission to England until the departure of the " Aidinga," as we are assured she will leave here in time to catch the English mail, which leaves or rather should leave Melbourne on the 26th of the month. Owing to the non-arrival of tho steamer last month, a special one will have to be chartered, unless the steamer from Suez with ' the March mails may perhaps he in condition to return at ouce. The claim which recently bottomed at "Wetherstone's is now being worked under the auspices of i the Deep Sinking Association, and has yielded ? some very fine prospects of rough shotty gold. A detailed report is preparing by the Inspector, and '■ will be submitted to the committee. Our readers may rely henceforth on receiving the fullest and the latest shipping intelligence from L'ort Chalmers, as a reporter from this office is now specially stationed there. Owners and agents of vessels trading to the Port would much facilitate arrangements and place us in the position to obtain intelligence at an earlier moment, by instructing captains of vessels to bring on always the latest papers, and when practicable to .have copies of their manifests taken. This plan is adopted by the large steamships to Melbourne. Captains at the Port will be supplied with copies of the paper daily, on application to our reporter. An accident, which might have been attended by fatal results, occurred yesterday about noon, on the other side the cutting, in North Dunedin. A laborer was in tho act of getting off a dray, when the reins became entangled, and the horse shying precipitated the man to the ground, when the wheels of the cart crossed the poor fellow's arms, severely bruising hini, and necessitating his instant removal to the hospital. A meeting of the Volunteers took place las evening in their room, Princes-street, hut owing to the inclemency of the weather, tlie attendance did not number more than thirty. AYe understand that the entire strength of the corps now amonnts to ono hundred and four members. There will be another meeting on Friday evening.