RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT NASEBY.—Sept. 7.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 32, 10 September 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT NASEBY.—Sept. 7.

(Before H. W. Robinson, Esq., R.M.) Donnelly v Grason.—ln this case a judgment was given in this Court "during the past week. A warrant of distress having been issued the bailiff, upon going to take possession of the property, which was at the Kyeburn, was met with a claim from Hugh Donnelly, brother to defendant, that the property supposed to belong to his brother had been bought by him in April last. The present case was an interpleader to ascertain to whom the property really belonged. A document was put in by Hugh Donnelly purporting to be that by which he had acquired all his brother's right, title, and interest in the house, property fixtures, &c., in dispute, for the sum of £25 sterling. The Bench ruled that, whereas in all such deeds the articles should be enumerated clearly and set forth, the very general terms in which the document was couched caused him to regard it with suspicion, and he therefore declined to accept it as evidence, and dismissed the case.

Since tlie late temperance movement at Clunes, we (' Guardian') have heard a great many slang expressions in connection with, the drinking customs of the colony; but the following, which occurred at the bar of an hotel on Tuesday evening, caps them all. Two fast young gentlemen entered, when the following conversation passed:— " Well, Bill, what poison will you take ?" " WTiy," returned his companion, "as it is so cold, 1 will try a nobbier of 1 Sudden Death.' " The drinkers of simple colonial ale were astqnished.