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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 23 December 1862, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Before M. Price, Esq., 11. M.) Friday, December 10th. Drunkard.-.— Nicholas Colic and John Franklin were charged with being drunk and disorderly. Fined 20s each. But- ac-it ov Cattle Trespass Ordi\.4NCf;. — W. 11. Scott and Soloman ShepPard were fined ">s. each and costs for allowing their horses to stray in Tay -street. Saturday, December 20i.b. There was no business transacted to-day. Monday, December 2"2nd. Smallfieldand Rain v. Kobertson — Claim for -L'2o. Verdict for plaintiff, with costs.

Cannibalism n\- Bucks on" tut. Tii-Rnr.-ri.v Downs. — A gentleman just arrived from the North informs us that, very recently, Mr. Cunningham, the owner of a station on the Burdekin Downs, while out looking for some working-bullocks, came suddenly upon a camp of blacks, where to his horror, he found a human body just roasted and partially eat en, the cannibals being engaged in gnawin a; the flesh from the leg-bones. This, our inFonuant states, was the third body that Mr. Cunningham has found roasted on his run. Mr. Major, of the Fanning Kiver, has also iccently seen the roasted body of a blackfellow being devoured by bis companions ; and the same gentleman lately fell in with n black gin on his ran, who had in her hilly the lower portion of the leg of a man. About the time of these horrible discoveries a white man, evidently insane, passed by the above station quite unharmed, and totally without provisions, who said he was bound for the Gulf of Carpentaria. Every persuasion was used to induce the unfortunate man to desist from his insane resolve, and he was informed of the bloodthirsty character of the blacks in the neighborhood, hut all to no purpose — go on he would. Certainlj", in such cases, magistrates would Vie justilied in employing force when persuasion failed. We have •given the above stories just as we received them from our informant, in whose veracity we have every reason to place full reliance. — Brisbane Courier. A German Gamtno Sat.oox. — An alley of ornnge trees — each costing about forly pounds — leads" across the park to the tar-famed palace of piny. Through a noble portico the victim enters the hall, where he is received by liveried footmen ready lo take charge of his bat, stick, and overcoat. It is advisable to use their services, for a "•ood hat or coat loft anywhere in the saloons might prove too irresistible a temptation to one of the numberless marquises, counts, and barons prowling about. Tn front of us, as we enter, is a splendid ball-room; but we turn to the left, then to the right, straight on ; that is the way to the devil's sanctuary. We find a splendid hall, longer than it is wide, "and are almost dazzled by the glaring splendour of it. From the ceiling adorned with pictures hang dark bronze chandeliers bearing numberless lights, multiplied again and again by mngnilicent looking glasses, placed at each end of the gorgeous chamber. A long range of high windows, separated from each other by splendid marble columns, open to a view on the park. All the curtains, drnperies.. and furniture are of dark red velvet. And there is a little tun much gilding' as one might expect. In the middle of this hall are placed two oblong tables, with a space of fifteen yards between them, both covered with green cloth; one of them is the roulette, the other the trente et-un table. Let nobody think of a gaming table as of a board surrounded by men in despair. .During thirty years' acquaintance with the Gerpian framing haunts, I have not witnessed oue violent fcenc, nor heard even a shriek. What I have j.een has, with a few trilling exceptions, boon much more ludhvous than tragical. There do occur shocking catastrophes ; hut very rarely in the gambling- house itself. The agents of the Spielpaehter keep a sharp eye on all desperate people likely to bo inconsiderate enough to injure the reputation of the bank by publicly expressing their despair. — All (he Year Round.