THE HIGHWAY DIGGINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 164, 26 May 1862, Page 4

THE HIGHWAY DIGGINGS.

A gveat many miners have returned from AVaikouaiti, some having been to tiie Highlay Diggings, some having turned back on the road' The reason of tho people leaving is the severity of the weather and the absence of fusl. There appears to be very little doubt that a gold field has been found, hut it can scarcely be worked to any extent during the winter. AYe are told that there are three or four feet of snow, and the only fuel is coal procured at a distance of several mites. Those alluvial miners, who are able to work are said to ba doing very well, and the general appearance of the country leads to the belief that there will be a large rush there in the spring, an:!, perhaps, if the weather be moderate, a limited population will be located there during the winter. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Saturday, 21th May, ISG2. (Before Alfred Chetham St-rod:-, Esq., R.M.) _ DnuNKENKESs.—The undermentioned parties were severally fined for this offence :—John Whitehead, charged by constable McMahon ; and James Griffin, charged by. constable Kirkpatrick* who were each fined 205., or, in default, committed for forty-eight hours. ■-, Insanity.—Samuel Lr.ngliam was charged with beinc of unsound mind. Constable McMahon informed the Bench that about half-past seven o clock the previous evening, from inf'ormiiti.m he received, he proceeded to the beach, and there found tne accused covered with mud, and in quite au exhausted condition. He was suspected of having attempted to drown himself. A party ill Court mentioned that an application had been made to tbe Hospital authorities for the man's admission into that Institution as a lunatic, but that the .reply was that there was no available accommodation. His worship observed that it wits a very extraordinary case; as there was in existence an order from tbe Superintendent for the man's admission. He was remanded for medical inquiry. Vagrancy.—Mary Jones, alias Harriet AVenuover. was brought- up in the custody of Constable Nimon, who charged her, by information, with having no lawful or visible means of support. He had found the woman in Princes-street on the preceding day, when she was in a partial state of intoxication. The Bench remarked tbat the Provincial Government were prepared to defray the expenses of the woman s passage to Hobart Town by tbe first vessel bound from Dunedin to tbat port. His AVorship now committed her to seven days' imprisonment, with- hard labor ;■ and at the expiration of that time, steps will be taken to consign her to her friends in Tasmania. Illegally at Large,—Robert Scully, alias John Ken-; was charged on the information of Detective Josoph Tuckwell with being a ticket-ef-leave holder illegally at large from A'ictoria. The man had absconded from the adjoining colony while under a sentence of eight years for horse stealing. His personal description was minutely set forth in the Gazette, and the prosecutor'handed in au oilicial document received from the Commissioner of Police in .Melbourne, respecting the prisoner. He had been staying at the Royal Georae Hotel, where he had assumed the name of* Robinson. The Bench remanded him back to yictoria, to he summarily dealt with by the authorities there. The L'jtßiness of the Court this morning, it beipg tbe Queen's Birth day, terminated in lndf-an-hour.

.The Scottish Banner, commenting on Dr, Cuinming's lectures, amusingly parodies a well-known Scottish song:— " Saw ye Doctor Cumming, quo' she, Saw ye Doctor Cumming, : He has a bonnet on his head, An' iu't a bee is bumming, quo' Hbe.' —English paper.