RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 1005, 27 July 1870, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday, Jult 23. — Before H. Eyre Kenny, Esq., R.M.

Messrs. Websters and Hulke v. John H. Barclev. — Claim, £14 10s., for goods sold nnd delivered. In this case the whereabouts of the defendant being unknown, and it being proved that personal service could not be effected, the summons had beon left at defendant's house in this place with an inmate above the age of fourteen years. Mr. Halse appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Hammerton appeared, instructed by the defendant's wife, to apply for a fortnight's delay in the issue of execution. The Court gave judgment for the plaintiffs for the amount claimed with £1 Is. costs, and counsel's fee, £l Is. They granted Mr. Hake's application for immediate execution.

Supreme Court.— On Monday last, the sittings of the Supreme Court were formally adjourned by the Registrar to the 2nd of August next, at 11 o'clock.

The Four Million Loan.— The Lyttelton Times of the 15th July, says—" We hear that the agent of a large monetary establishment in New South Wales is already in the Colony, ready to take up part of the loan proposed in the financial statement of the Colonial Treasurer."

The Mait, Service with England. — The New Zealand Ewminer (London) says — " It seems as if the New Zealand Mail Service is to be subject to a few fits of confusion before any final solution is arrived at. The Suez service has proved exact in the dates of its delivery ; but the Colonists, naturally desirous to' shorten the distance between themselves and * home,' eagerly embrace any opportunity offering this boon. To-day we have to suffer from one of these promises, as most of our correspondents' letters and papers have been placed on the vessel that proceeded from the Colony for San Francisco on the 2nd April. As these mails will not arrive for some three days, we are compelled to go to press without their intelligence. Meanwhile we can only congratulate all interested in New Zealand that her traffic is proving bo attractive to competitive lines.

The London Agents for the San Francisco Route. — The New Zealand Examiner (London) says — " The London agents to the new line of steamers from San Francisco to Honolulu, Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne, (H. Starr and Co. of Moorgate-streec,) are prepared to book through to Auckland in forty-fire days, and the Australian continent in forty-eight days from London. The first steamer is timed to take passengers leaving on the 21st instant, and reaching San Francisco in seventeen days.

The Wool Trade. — A dispute has arisen in the wool trade, as to the commission which ought to be paid to the buying brokers, hitherto fixed at I per cent., which it is proposed to reduce to \ per cent. The selling brokers contend that the former rate is a fair one both for the buying brokers and the wool importers, aud deprecato any change, as likely to prove detrimental to the interests of wool growers.