AUTUMN RANDWICK RACES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 153, 13 May 1862, Page 5

AUTUMN RANDWICK RACES.

We take the following from the Argue Sydney telegram of May 1: — • ' TRIAL STAKES. Lunatic . ... ... 1 Presto ... ... ... ... ... 3 .MUST MEW SOUTH WALES BIENNIALS. Exeter ... ... ... ... ... 1 Kyogle ... ... ... ... ... 2 Spartan ... ... ... 3 JOCKKY CI.UB HANDICAP. Talleyrand ... ... ... ... ... 1 Ben Bolt ... 2 Flying Doe ... ... ..; 3 SECOND NEW SOUTH WALES BIENKIAf.H. Haidee ...' ... ... ... ....' 1 Lady May ... ... ... ... ... 2 Jericho ... .;. . ... ... ... 3 sqiTArrßßs' pubsk. William Tell ... ... 1 Ada ... ... ... ... -2 Eucalyptus ... ■ 3 ■ -«- A fresh charge of libel was preferred against the. Argus in the Assembly last night. The defamatory paragraph' compliunpfl of was a scurrilous attack upon the members of. the late Ministry, by the London correspondent of that journal, asserting that they had kept a gang of eleven of their supporters at a lodginghouse at a cost of four guineas a-week each. Mr. Loader it was who introduced the subject, in order, as he said, to draw Mr. Heales's attention to it. Mr. Heales, however, contented himself with remarking that the allegation was too contemptibly malicious and too 'absurdly false to deserve any serious notice. And there the matter dropped.— Herald, May 1. The Mistakes of Magistrates.—The reckless expenditure of money by country police magistrates in inakiug committals without evidence to produce a conviction, was never more strongly exemplified than at'the Criminal Sessions held here on the 16th inst. The first of these cases alluded to was that of Hensley, committed at. Oineo, by Mr. Wills, for burglary. The Crown Px-osecutor Etared at the charge—read the deposition, a second time—rubbed his eyes, yet the word burglary stood before him in the committal. With what a sigh of despair Dr. Coombe threw,down the papers on,the table, and his face expressed all he felt at the acumen, cfeplajed by th.c worthy magistrate. He, however, arraigned the prisoner for the minor charge of conjuion asisault, on which there was not gne pat tide of evidence to find a verdict of "Guilty," and consequently, by the direction of the judge, the jury acquitted the prisoner. The next case, was that ofa.man named Bentley, committed by the same magistrate, for horse-stealing at Omeo. The facts of the case were simply these:—-Bentley had a horse running out at the diggings, the prosecutor and his mates, French Canadians, had also horses. Bentley took one of theirs instead of his own ;, he was informed by a third party that he was riding the wrong horse, when he iramediotely rode back, and found his own horse and left the other. Here, then, was a case, with some half dozen witnesses, remanded from sessions to sessions, at a cost of some £250 to the country, and wlien the evidence taken before the lower court was placed into the Crown prosecutor's hands he at once declared that there was no case. lv the9e two instances twelve persons have been brought from 120 to 150 miles from home to their great inconvenience, the. Crown.put to at least £300 expenses, and the law and its administrators are reviled and laughed at. We have no doubt but these cages will be reported by the Crown Prosecutor to the Attorney- General, and a reprimand from 'that functionary may have some beneficial result in preventin,i;future erroneous committals.— GippsLand Times, April 25.