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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 65, 7 September 1877, Page 2

It i 9 rep'brtod 'that Watson",' iho celebrated ■ , Sydney pedestriuD, was a passenger to Westi (jorfcrby the last trip of the S;8. Kennedy. On'tbe'lasfi up trip, the Westport coach brought eight passengers, besides a heavy load • of miscellaneous, freight. Traffic oh the road is saitl. to be increasing rapidly, and nutubors of persons whose business necessitates frequent visits between Weatport and Grevmoulh, fShcT tbe convenience of the overland j routp .via lEoeftoiS. .. . ■ .■ ■ « • ■ A number of Ee.eft.on residents have within tho last few dny's received a welcome surprise •in Ihe dhapo of k dividend from the T)iapatch Foundry Company, G-i'eymouih. Tbe circumstance is worthy of mention, as ' indicating (hat an important and largo labour absorbing ' industry ' 'h a 3 after a tolerably, hard struggle at Icn' til been 'successfully est'abliahod on the .WeSt doa3t. M' Williams' four-horae coach le r t on XVoih nesday morning last on its maiden trip to ■Poatman'B, convoying fire pafisengerd. Its arrival in Cupleßlon was hailed by the. residents with " three times three "and abundant good wish'oa wero expressed for tho sue- , CC3S of the enterprise. Tho coach returned' in the evening orin^ing several passengers. At the meelisig of the Jockey Club held on Tuesday evening lust, it was definitely docided to hold tho (let raoe meotiivr in ih e Inan- ', •gahlia on tho '2Cfh and 27th of Dccembdnext. We .think the Club was very wiso in doting upon, this suggestion, for if, as may be reasonably bclL'vcd,- owners will in future piend their horsed overland from Nelson to the t West Coasi in pref'-reneo to incurring Hie s risk.-) of sliipbonnl, (lenlto 1 will b.< n cons 1 ' vonie^t halting stition on the wny. Th.it the j ! date fixed, upon here will not liiirmouiiJ willi l the Oreymoulh'rneiMing i« to be re-jrelled, but. gq»(jiiily, f ven yel. Iho ytewnnla of ihe? oivymouth ■ r.iijfd may consitli'r it prii'lciit to re-consider the matter. That ho mo racing on I tho West Coast can nevir uttaiu to anything v wuithy of tho namo until the racing Clubs of a Kceflon, Oreyinoulh, Ifo 1 . iliku an-.l VVculport 1:

pull together, must bo npjvavi.t Thit 4'r* is ' impossible in the nutumn of the year, when | Ibe one holiday (>t. Fntri.'Vs Day) is liko a liny stolen from labor, \\i!t N bo admitted; whereas, were thounonths J of '"Roc^nber axid Jaiunry generally udoptoil, ngg-vg;atoof stakes offered on (lio Wcßt Coast would bring down the best mo tul <?f tho Colony, niul a* inonoy is plentiful and the desire {or nrmisemonfc and relaxation is at that Benson uppermost in tho popular mind, it follows tint, that i 3 the most acceptable time. If, therefore, our GrejmoutU and Westporfc neighbours could bo 1 shape matters as to fall in with such o proposal there is no doubt that they would with us largely benefit thereby. '" i Tho sitting of tho. District Court opened yestenkr, beforo his Honor Jird^c Wc3ton iinda Jury of four, with tho caro of Reeves v. M'Lean. Mr Pitt and Mr Staite appeared) for the plaintiff, and Mr SouMi with Mr Bad for the defendant. The case ocoupyied the whole 'clay, and at the adjournment at s'p.m., (lie case f >r the plaintiff had only been closed. Voluminous legal autltoritea were produced on each. Bide, iiud the opening addresses of Mr Pitt for the plaintiff, and Mr South for the defendant, were perhaps the moat able forensic displays yet heard in the Court hero. The case throughout excited a large amount of public interest, and the proceedings are likely to extend over to-day. The paitjeulars of the eltiim and the cirnumstancoa surrounding it, will be best understood from a reference to tho report which appears in another column, i The Court will resume at 10 o'clock feharp I this morning. The following, which appeared in Wednesday's Auckland Star, does not seem to reflect, credit on the printers of Dunedin : At the City (DiKiedin) Police Court yesterday, John : Williams, rfh old printer and cripple, was charged, with having no lawful means of sup-* port. Inspector Mallard stated that accused had been arrested out of purely humane motives. It wag one of those hard eases where a - man, after living a respectable life, bad to be 6ent to gaol because there was no other asylum, but he could scarcely bo scut to the tTospilnl, ami the Benevolent In. (itution was crowded. He war, sent to g.iol for three mouths with hard .labour. Mr M'Kay, solicitor, stilted ho kivw that the prisoner, who \vri3 o.v.er SO years of age, was unfit for hard labour. The Bin. oh replied that only eucli work as Williams could undertake would be given him. Tho London Tiine3 con* plains thai; the proper business of the law Courts is delayed by tho atlo'ition which the Chief Judgos are corn--pelled to give to the Folkestone ril mil caseTwo Lord Chancellors, three Lord Justices, a Lord Chief Baron, five other judges, an Archbishop and three Bishops are ull occupied in splitting theological hairs. The- Times reads the clergy a sharp lecture for obstructing to such an extent the business of the country;. Some litfcio lime ago, at a bar ooijehivo at a southern hotel in ".tho States," gonentls, majors, an.l coloules were each, wjfch much cbuhimation, giving an account of an incident of tho last civil war. A quiofc itan stood by, and at laet said, ".Gcntleinon, I happened to be there' and perhaps n.ight be able to r:fiv?!i your memories a3 to what took plticc." And ho gave succinctly andinoirjusivcly the csne,t detail* of a oraart action. Tho hote'.kr-opn* said to him, " Bl", what lni^ht, have- boon your rank?" " I was a private," nils the reply JSVxf il.iy (he quiet nuiu, an ho was nboufc 'o depart, asked for his bill. " Not a i:oi:t, c'u 1 — not a cont," aiuwerecl the proprietor. " You lire the very first private 1 ever iue.t."