RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COUKT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 202, 28 August 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COUKT.

Before J. Shakp, Esq., R.M. | | I This Day. Lighthand v. M'lntosh. j Claim for £13 6s. Id. for goods sup- | plied. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed and costs, £2 Is. Lightband v. Reeves. Claim for £6 19s. 6d. for goods supplied. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed and costs, 245. Andreip Godbaz was charged' with unlawfully and maliciously barking a willow tree, the property of Daniel Grant. : His Worship said that as this was the first offence of the kind that had come before him, he should only inflict a small fine, j but in the event of any more such cases being brought into Court he should deal more severely with the offenders. Defendant was fined ss. and costs, 15s.

The Peace Society must contain s good many very sanguine people. The drift of its last report, according to newspaper summaries of it, is that people all over the world are becoming convinced of the needlessness and wickedness of war. Does the society perchance include the Americans, who have saved their Republic by war , or the North Germans, who have become through it a nation ; or the Italians, to whom it has given freedom ; or the Russians, on whom it bestowed access to the West j or the British, who acquired by it their empire j or the Turks, •with whom it is a religious duty ? That the nations are becoming convinced of the expensiveness of war is perhaps true j but as to its wickedness in se, the drift of opinion is towards the idea that it is often the quickest solution of problems otherwise insoluble.— Spectator.