The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1869. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 55, 8 March 1869, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1869. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day. Before J. Sharp, Esq., R.M., Hon. N. G. Morse, J.P., and C. Huntee Brown, Esq., J.P. John Mahony, charged by Police Constable Levy with being drunk and disorderly, was fined £1 and costs. H. E. Dornfeld, cook and Steward on board the schooner Heron, was charged by' T. It. Brown, master of that vessel, with deserting his ship at Westport, on 23rd February. Sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment with hard labor, and to go back to the vessel if the captain wished it. Sir Frederick Chambre Foster, Bart., was again brought up on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences, from | John Eyan, publican. The prosecutor not appearing, the case was dismissed.

Suez Mail. — Mails for Europe, &c, via Suez, will be despatched from Nelson, by the Alharabra, which is expected to leave this port on or about Thursday uext. Supreme Court. — Owing to an accident having happened to Mr Kiogdon, who was engaged in the case of Mackay v. Morse, which was to have been heard today, the Court was adjourned until Thursday next, at 10 a.m. Sale of Southdown and Lincoln Rams.— Mr John E. Mabin reports an auction sale of 20 rams imported in the Airedale from Wellington. Half of the rams were Southdown and the remainder Lincolns. The prices obtained were exceedingly low, 20s to 24s each being the amounts realised for the former des« caption, and 21s to 34s for the latter. Tidal Phenomena. — Some unusual tidal phenomena occurred yesterday, similar t-o what occurred here on the occasion of the great earthquake in Peru. About the time of half-flood, a large wave broke along the shore, and there was a strong tidal current up the Buller to a distance beyond the usual tidal influence. According to marks on the banks, the water suddenly rose and fell a distance of two feet. The same phenomena presented themselves at other places along the coast. At Charleston, it is said, a vessel was driven up on the beach, and at Hokitika the harbor master's boat was washed away. — Westport Times, March 4. Reward. — The following advertisement appeared in a late Waoganui paper: — Information Wanted. — £100 Reward. — The above reward will be paid to anyone giving information as to the whereabouts of Titoko Waru and some 500 men who have disappeared from mortal ken. Tenders are also required for the supply of 100 tons of salt to clap upon their tails when caught. Titoko and his force are supposed to be somewhere between the North Cape and Port Nick. — Wanganui, Feb. 10th, 1869. Silk Culture. — An English paper states that " The price of raw silk has greatly advanced during the past three years, owing to the repeated failure of the silk crops in Italy and the south of France. Raw silk, which three years ago could be bought at 25s per lb., is now as much as 70s per lb. Messrs Nicholson, agents for the sale of the manufactures of several eminent Lyons firms in the silk trade, state that there is -every probability of raw silk of first quality reaching as much as 100s per lb., or more than four times the price it was a few years ago."