RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 258, 2 November 1869, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before J. Sharp, Esq, R.M. Yesteeday. J. ftP-Gill, charged with being drunk and damaging the Dun Mountain Bus was ordered to pay 16s. for repairs and was fined £1 and costs, or in default 14 days' imprisonment for being drunk. This Day. James Ford, charged with being drunk and smashing the glasses at the Nelson Hotel was fined 10s. and costs and ordered to pay £3 for damages done. J. Humphrey for allowing two horses to be at large was fined 10s. and costs.

The Westport Times states that a meeting of the provisional directors of the Waimangaroa Quartz Mining Company was held at the Empire Hotel on Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of appointing a legal manager to the Company, and selecting brokers in the various towns, with the view of floating the balance of the shares unapplied for. Mr. William Pitt was appointed the legal manager, and the following gentlemen are to be communicated with to act as brokers : —Messrs. Munro, Robertson, and Falla, in Westport; Mr. Thomas. Dwan, Charleston ; Mr. G-. W. "Moes, Greymoulh; and Messrs. Stavert and Thompson, in Nelson. It is confidently stated by one or two gentlemen, who best know, and have been longest interested in the reef, that a large number of the shares of the contemplated company are likely to be taken up in Christchurch and Auckland. The number of births registered in the Colony (including the Chatham Islands) during the year 1868, was 9391, and of deaths 2662, the excess of births over deaths thus heing 6729, or at the rate of 253.53 per cent. The rate of deaths per 1000 of the population, calculated to the nearest unit, was as follows : —Nelson, 8 ; Southland, 9 ; Chatham Islands, 11 ; Auckland and Otago, 12; Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Canterbury, and Westland, 13; Taranaki, 14 ; Marlborough, 17; and all New Zealand, 12.