RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 7, 9 January 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

. This Day. (Before J. Sharp, Esq., R.M.) William Westley was charged with assaulting and beating Mary Westley his wife. Mary Westley deposed — I am wife of the defendant. On Wednesday last I was going to Wakapuaka with my mother aud called at defendant's for my side saddle. He told me to go away. I replied I would, if he would give me what I had come for, — my side saddle; With that he gave me a kick ou the shin and cut my leg. He and the woman who is living with him struck me over the head with a stick. Cross-examined by Mr Kingdon : It is tliree years since I left defendant. I left to taki a situation at Mr Bush's. I have not beeu living there since. I have been at Napier — I have been living as servant with aMr White. I demanded my side saddle — he then kicked me. He did not put me out of his house quietly, fpr I was not in it. 4 r , v i Margaret Leffoot deposed— l ' am a i widow and mother of complainant, I went up with my daughter, <.when she called at her husband's house. ; I remained iv the road. I saw the children ruuning, and then I went up and saw my daughter getting up out of a gutter. I took her away. „._,. ... ... f Mr Kingdon in defence, stated that three years and a half-'a-year ago complainant left her husband's house without provocation, with a man with whom, she had been living with ever since. On Wednesday complainant called at th.c house — walked in at the back-door, and defendant quickly put her ..out, when she tripped in the gutter. Her mother came up and took her away. His Worship said the assault had been fully proved, and fined defendant £1 and costs. Aldridge and Albert Aldridge, mere children of about six and seven years old, were charged with stealing fruit from Mr Askew's orchard . The mother appeared and stated that" the girl had been at home all the time. The boy .admitted -taking cherries, and on promising " not to repeat, .the offence, a nominal fine of 6d. was inflictd. His Worship remarked that the prisoner might have been sent to gaol for six months. His Worship ordered a warrant to issue against Elizabeth Banks, alias Elizabeth Abbott, she having neglected to answer a summons charging her with breaking windows, on the premises of John Whent. , Neal v. Luscombe.— This was a claim for a quarter's rent. Mr Kingdon ap-

peared for plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff, £8 17s. and costs. Stephen M ln tyre was charged wtth stealing 300 ozs. amalgam from the Buller; the property of John M'Geehan, as trusted for others. Dr Combe appeared for the defence. Eobert Lambert deposed : I am a detective, stationed afc Westport. On the 14th December, I received information of the robbery, from John M'Geehan, who was at the time in lawful possession of the umalgam. I made inquiries at Westport. Prisoner told me when he sold out that he was going to the Grey district to his brother. <0u the 23rd ulfc. I had a conversation with prisoner. He told me he had sold out of his claim for £40, and that that was all the money he had. He told me that he sold out after the other man had been arrested. Dr Combe contended that there was an end of the case, as he was a partner at the time, and therefore could not be guilty of larceny in taking the property of a partner. His Worship said he should not stop the case on the point raised. Eobert Shallcrass, deposed : I am Inspector of Police at Nelson, From information received I caused prisoner to be arrested on 29fch uit. He was searched. £16 12s. 9d. in money was found on him and sundry papers. On 2nd inst. he sent for me and commenced telling me about his affairs. I cautioned him as usual. He told me he was an uncertificated bankrupt in Victoria and that the money with which he had purchased the draft for £260 at the Bank of New South Wales was money he had secreted from his creditors in Victoria and consisted entirely of sovereigns, and during the time he was at the diggings on the West Coast, he had the money hidden in a bag in the ground, and that was the money with which he had purchased the draft. John Lethbridge D'Albedyhll deposed. I ara accountant in the Bank of Nex^ South Wales, Nelson. I know the prisoner. He came to the Bank on 28th uit., to receive a draft on Melbourne, in favor of Mrs Maryann MTntyre, for £260. He paid into Bank £262 12s ld. That sum was paid in £5 and £10 notes, mostly new. They were the only new notes received that day. On the following morn^ iug I discovered that of these new notes. I had £120 in new £5 notes. They were numbered 20,800 odd. Ido not know the' precise numbers. They were of the Bank of New South Wales, Nelson issue. The £10 notes received from the prisoner were Union Bank notes, from £100 to £140. They were quite new, and were the only new notes of that Bank received that day. The prisoner was then remanded to' Westport.

"directions there are cavities in which water has at one time boiled, and from which steam is still rising, and, in these, traces of decomposition soon disappear. One consequence of the disaster was very feelingly deplored, viz., that the boiling springs could never again be used for cooking food, as by such an accident it became tapu — tapu for ever after; and there would be some show of reason in setting aside a culinary receptacle in which a Rangatira had been boiled.' Writing ou the subject of recruiting in Victoria for New Zealand, the Melbourne Leader says: — Victorians are altogether too modest to have appreciated Captain Stack's mission adequately. All he wanted was 200 of our men in order to complete the conquest of the Maoris, which had beeii found impossible by the New Zealand colonists themselves. Seeing that New Zealaud is so much older a colony, one might have imagined that iv an extremity so gore — when European women and children were massacred by a relentless enemy — the adult male population would have been more than sufficient for their own defence; : and what especially, puzzles us is to find the deficiency limited to that little : 200. Is all the fighting to be done-by the Victorian contingent, While the Old Identity hold their hats; or are our 200 required merely to give a tone to the national army? Is there a New Zealand laureate equal to the task of chronicling the various charges sure to be made by our 200 ? Surely a more silly measure of the kind has uever been more absurdly carried out. If the New Zealanders are unable to take their own part, they are 'extraordinary specimens of the British ■race? but at least they might be careful of themselves, and accept our offer to lend thera our own gallant defeuders of the 14th Regiment. It is in raw levies they seem to put their trust, however; and their admirable agent, Captain Stack, has taken care that his novices in military art . shall also be individuals of umbiemished reputation. Faucy a recruiting sergeant simultaneously obtaining the assistance of a medical man and a conductor of private inquiries, and the astonished recruits discovering that they have to pass the detective as well as the doctor! Indeed, the Whole business is too ridiculous for serious comment; the crowning absurdity being tb see a Melbourne journal describing Captain Stack's success as a proof of the 'badness of the times. Perhaps, on the Vhole, the labor market never wore a more cheerful appearance than now; disengaged tradesmen in the building line ■are not to be had for love or mouey; even pick and shovel men can have their 7s. : a-day. Yet because a small number of persons unfit for colonial work cannot get suitable situations right off, the condition of the colony is to be stupidly misrepresented. Really we wish Captain Stack's number was not limited to 200, We could spare a considerable number more, and they would be right willing to go, too — provided there was to be no work or fighting. A private letter from Madrid says : — Three successive Queens of Spain have lived in open scandal, The grandmother of Isabella made her favorite a prince, the mother made hers a duke, and Isabella made hers intendente of her palace. Isabella's mother is one of the richest persons in Europe, and she accumulated her vast wealth by sharing in the profits, of the Cuban slave trade. The reigning Popes of Rome have honored and rewarded these women as if they were patterns of Ipiety and virtue. In some ill-drained localities, if a vote "were taken on the impurity, both the eyes and nose would have it. The advantage of having corns is that then you always stand on your own tachers.