RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 839, 13 January 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS HAY. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. James Low, Robert Caffin, and George Watt, were each charged with, this offence, and hned 20s or the usual alternative. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Allen Doughty was charged with this offence, and fined 20s and costs, with the usual alternative of 43 hours imprisonment. LUNACY. Peter Grogan was charged with being of unsound mind, and dangerous to be at large. The defendant was interrogated by the Magistrate, and it appeared the singular conduct which led to his apprehension had been caused by hard drinking. He was discharged. ARSON. James Machiah Cope was brought up on remand, charged with attempting to commit this offence in tStuart-street on the 11th inst. The evidence of Mrs Anna Thompson, who lived in the adjoining house to where the fire took place, was examined at length, and her evidence as to the prisoner’s connection with the incendiarism was sufficiently clear to cause the Magistrate to commit him for trial at the next criminal sessions.

Referring to the Gulf of Carpenteria, the Pastoral Times says :—“Squatters are pushing forward to the far-off-gulf. The terra incognita until poor Burke and Wills made a course for pastoral enterprise right across the continent—now people speak of tire Gulf as ten years ago they did’of tne Raiding. There are now between fifty and sixty thousand sheep there, and no less than 300 bales of wool are expected from thence this season. There is one drawback, however, a poisonous plant exists there, which has already decimated the sheep. Down the Lynd and the Gilbert, for about fifty miles, this plant has already been found to extend over some fine pastoral, country ; one gentleman, named Cassidy, having lost when the news left, .upwards of 700 sheep. The plant may have no effect upon acclimatised sheep, as has been proved in such cases in New Zealand and other countries.” The Canterbury Synagogue have collected about £4O, for the relief of their suffering brethren at Jerusalem, afflicted by the ravages of cholera.