RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 343, 5 September 1868, Page 4

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Friday, September. 4. 1868. (Before Chas. Broad Esq., E M.) There were no police cases. Somcrville v. Shepherd and Brownlie —Claim £3O, for damages occasioned by pigs. Plaintiff did nob appear and was non-suited. Storch v. G-olds tucker—Claim £2 13s. No appearance, struck out. Same v. lleid—Claim £1 13s 6; summons enlarged for a week. Andrew Johnston v. Wm. Brophy— Claim £7 12s 6d ; sixmmons enlarged for a week.

M'Cay v. Bell—Mr Horn for plaintiff, Mr O'Neil for defendant. This was a claim of £lO brought by the master of the schooner Ann against the master of the schooner Excelsior for damages sustained in a collision in Constant Bay. The evidence on the plaintiffs side went to show that the collision was owing to the neglect of the defendant, in having his vessel insufficiently moored, but the evidence on the other side so far contradicted this, that a verdict for defendant was given, with costs.

The Pacific Eailroad Race. —The contest (says Virginia city Trespass) between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, as to which shall construct the most road this season, continues spirited. We learn from J. Richardson, travelling agent of Well, Pargo, and Co.'s northern routes, who arrived in this city from the east, that the Union Pacific people are straining every nerve to complete their section of the road. The cars now run to the Big Laramie, and, by July 1, passengercars will run to the North Platte,, a distance of 141 miles west from Cheyenne. The Union directors are sanguine of reaching Green River, 181 miles west of the Platte, by November 10, making the amount of road completed for the current year 322 miles, over the very hardest portion for construction. The Central Pacific are no less strenuous in their exertions, and will soon have at least 15,000 men at work east of the big bend of the Truckee. By the 20th of this month [July], cars will pass the summit and connect at Coburn's, making a continual rail from Sacramento to Reno, and ten miles east. As soon as the rail can be brought across Fortymile Desert, and by December next, the road will be completed to a point more than one hundred miles east of the Humboldt River. The emulation of both the Eastern and Western roads as to speedy completion, is for the benefit of the public, and therefore laudable. We predict that President Croker won't be outdone in the matter of road-building this summer. A new rifle has made its appearance in Paris called ravageur, which, according to the assertions of its inventor, eclipses both the needle gun and the Chassepot, and can be fired forty rounds per minute, or 2,400 per hour.