RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2416, 3 June 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Wednesday, May 31, 1876.— Before H. E.

Kenny, Esq., 11.M. Case Adjourxed. — Humphries and Son v, F. W. Rolfo. Adjourned to' 2Bth June.

Case Struck Out. — Curtis and Son v. Movcrly. Struck out.

Road Rate Cases— W. I Grnyling wns ordered to pay £1 ISK 4d. and costs 6s. 6d.; Bud Ch:u Ins t. White lGs, Bd. aud costs Gs. 6d.

Breach ov 17th Clause ok "The Scab Ordinance, 18G0." I—Robert1 — Robert Colrhcr Gray was fined the minimum fine of .C 2 and costs, iucluilinj» witnesses expenses and Counsel's fee, £1 Uk. Oil., for having neglected to furnish to the Chief luspcctor of sheep the nnuual return of pheep in his charge on the Ist of Janusirv hist

Examination uxdkr "11. M.E. Act, IS/0." — The evidence of the plaintiff in Basset t t'. Rhodes wns taken in accordance with the provisions of the Act.

New Plymouth and Waitaka Railway, — Rut urn of traffic for four weeks ending' Gth M.iy, 187G:— Passengers, 1,560, £112 7s. Sd. ; parcels, See, £1 Bs. Goods— Freight, 271 tons; timber, 27,000 feet; grain, 5,700 bushels, £87 18s. 9J.; total, .£2Ol 14s.

Death ov Mr. William Hough.— A report reached town yesterday, that Mr. William Hough, of Urenui, was dead. He had been suffering some considerable time from inflntnmatiou of the lunirs. During the time of his resilience at Urenui, where he has been carrying ou the occupation of a general storekeeper, he made mauy frieude, and iv his business relations his integrity was unimpcached.

Supposed Suicide of a Passenger on Board the • Taranaki.'— A very melancholy occurrence took place on bonrd tho 'Taranaki' on Monday night last, during her voyage from Lyttelton to Wellington, no less than the disappearance of one of tho saloon passengers, named W. H. Bass, who went ou board at Lyttelton with the intention of going to Auckland. Tnu Post says — " When the unfortunate man joined the steamer he was evidently very much under the influence of liquor, nnd it is supposed that he must have been attacked during the night by a fit of delirium trvmens, nud that he jumped overboard, for ho was missing this morning, while a brandy bottle half empty was fouud iv his berth, llnss, jvho was about thirty years of age, wns tho umto of a small vessel trading out of Lyttelton, had a wife and family nt the Manukau. The stewards ou board the 'Tuiunaki' seeing his condition, would not supply him with any liquor, but he had taken a bottle of brandy with him. About midnight he became very violent, and was assisted on deck, as ho said that if left there he would Boon ,come round. He waa never si'O.u afterwards."

Licensing Magistrate's in Queensland. — Thirty-seven magistrates sat on th« Bench at the annual licensing iv Queensland lntely. Some of tfco .country magistrates showed untnistakeftbly that they were bo determined to honestly and conscientiously perform their duty on thrtt day, iv the grant, ing oflicensesf-^to country publicans at all «yenM — that tliey had evidently sampled all the liq.iors tit every public house on their w«y to Brisbane — hud, in fact, given themselves ah ' unlimited .''lasting order." One applicant for a country publicans' license waa accused ot not being a sober man, whereupon a worshipful gentleman wljo hud sampled the mans liquor that morning, assured his brother magistrates, with a great manifestation of suppressed emotion, aud much twitchjug about the mouth aud nose, that he " cou'd — voush— f'r— th.V— inansh — beiu' — shober man— p'fkly shober — an' keep— best li'k' T f'any— man w'thin twenty miles o' Brisnuin." Tho license was granted of course upou unimpeachable tcstiuxouy like this, but it was a oloso Bhavc.