RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S.COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 57, 9 March 1870, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S.COURT.

[Before J. Sharp, Esq , R.M.] Tnis Day. Ilarley v. J. S. Carroll. Action to recover £18 10s. for ale-sup-plied. The sum of £7 having been paid since the service of the summons, judgment was given for the plafntiff for £11 10s., and costs 30s. Turner v Denne. Claim for £3 15s. for carting, and balance due on purchase of horse. A set off of £4 3s. -was lodged by the defendant. Judgment for plaintiff for £3 3s\, and costs, 9s. Hale v. Norris mid Go. Adjourned until Saturday, 19th inst. Eli Barnes was charged with using, in the bar of the Trafalgar Hotel, insulting and provoking language in the presence and hearing of Win. Cooksey, for the purpose of annoying aud provoking him to a breach of the peace. The use of the language having been fully proved, Barnes was ordered to pay the costs £1 165., and to be bound over to keep the peace for three months, him self in £20 and one surety of £10.

We {Express) learn that Mr. Hathaway has purchased the Moutoa, which has for some time been lying idle in the Pelorus Sound, for the purpose of using her engines in the flax manufacture, Messrs. Hathaway and March having taken up the flax country belonging to Mr. Soper, at Willow Glen. Another, large tract of the finest flax country, comprising 250 acres, situate on both sides the road, between the Bush and Spring Creek, Marlborough, and belonging to Mr F. Busch, has been taken up within the last few days by Mr H. Pitt, acting on behalf of a local company. We learn from Hokitika that the prizes at the ensuing Easter Meeting there will amount to £300 or upwards. This ought to be auother incentive to the owners of good horses to send them to the Coast, as the two meetings are held closely together. A Glass manufactory is expected to be 3stablished in Auckland. A practical glassblower and cutter, who has worked at home and in the colonies, has applied for a piece of ground for the purpose. The sand is procurable at Whangarei or Bay of Islands.

Kauki Gum is reported to be growing scarcer in Auckland Province, and it is belived that at no very distant date its yield will be totally exhausted. Among new industries which might with advantage be inaugurated in the colony, an Auckland contemporary mentions the manufacture of paper, the quantity of which consumed in the colony is constantly increasing. This fact, together with the circumstance that the very best of all material lies at our doors, and can be procured infinitely cheaper than any other at present used in the European manufactories, will, we trust, be sufficient to iuduce some of our monied. men to embark in such a speculation. The Shortland thieves seem to be growing bold. The Thames Advertiser says " A very daring robbery took place at the Shortland Police Station during Tuesday. One of the constables who had been on night duty, on going to bed on Tuesday morning, left a sum of £7 in one of his trousers pockets in his room. During the day he went out, dressed iv different clothes from what he had worn on the previous night, aud leaving his trousers where he had laid them. After a few hours' absence he came back, and found that the money had been stolen. We believe that there is not much expectation of detecting the thief." Fortunes, it seems, arc still to be made at the Lakes (Otago) diggings. We learn from the local paper that Aspinall's terrace claim, Skippers, which is worked by two men, yielded the week before last 288ozs of gold, valued at £1087. This gold was taken out of ground boxed by 2\ sets of timbers, of about nine feet. The Duke of Edinburgh in India. — Private letters received in Nelson from Calcutta state that a most magnificent reception has been accorded to Prince Alfred in that city, which was in a perfect whirl of gaiety for the time being. Illuminations, and fireworks of the most gorgeous description were displayed on the night of his landing, aud dinners aud balls, both public and private, were taking place every evening. In return for this enthusiastic reception, a ball on a magnificent scale was given by the Duke on board the Galatea. His Royal Highness was about to proceed to Lucknow where there was to be a grand procession, including many of the wealthiest of the Indian princes ; one feature of the procession was to consist of 420 elephauts richly caparisoned with trappings profusely ornamented with gold, silver, and precious stones. Tiie Suez Canal. — A well-informed correspondent chats in his own pleasant way of the "surroundings" and the character of some of the visitors at the inaguration of the Suez Canal. He says, under date Cairo, November 25: — "Everyone, from Kaiser and Khedive to fellah and railway porter— always excepting hotelkeepers, the bourgeoisie, and the donkeyboys — must be heartily glad it is over, and that the ceremonials have gone off so wonderfully well. That tempers have been tried and that toes have been trodden on iv such a rush cannot be denied or wondered at. Now that all is over we may, without captiousness, express the opinion that the Land of Egypt was visited by aself-iuflicted plague. There were too many guests invited, and they were of a sort, in many instances, to do no good to themselves or any body or thing else. The pressure was greater than the constitution could bear. There has been a good deal of grumbling — some quite unreasonable and ridiculous, if not irritating and discreditable, a little well-founded, perhaps, so far as fortune is concerned. People of great expectations who came late have not what capitalists call " realised " on the occasion. The Suez Canal has made men acquainted with, strange bed-fellows. Imagine a gentleman of no distincion in any way going to the Viceroy and demanding an audience, which Ismail, most accessible of Pashas and rulers to Europeans, granted, and in which his injured guest complained that he had been put to sleep in a double-bedded room ! And what a fine stroke of humour there was in the Khedive's atonement. He gave orders that three more beds should be placed in the apartment of the complainant. The way noble lords have been shoved into two-pair backs and doubled up with 1 commercials/ or literary gents, or clods, has been very trying ; and now and" then graver mistakes have been made ; but if the bill of grievances were extended ever so long, there would be still an immense amount of courtsey, order, and attention to i

acknowledge, praise, and be thankful for, •which, under all the circumstances, is very astonishing, The canal so far suggests topics of a very different character. Even staid Manchester men, despite the cautions of their engineering friends, are now disposed to think that the canal will revolutionise the trade and commerce of half the -world, and exercise on cotton, and silk, and tea, and the like, influences as yet undreamt of and unconceived. — European Mail. According to the Freemason' s Journal, it is estimated thai the Masonic Order at present contains about 1,300,000 members. Of this number 150,000 are in England, 100,000 in Scotland, and 50,000 in Ireland. There are about 500,000 on the Continent of Europe, 300,000 in the United States, and 50,000 in other parts of the world. Aside from Asia, the number in India will probably reach 50,000. The Marquis of Bute, it is reported, took with him from Scotland to Rome a magnificent silver cross of Gothic workmanship, adorned with Scottish stones, and presented it to the Pope, who directed that it was to be used as the professional cross of the Council. The cross was made by a well-known Catholic jeweller in Glasgow. There is a rumour, however, that the Marquis, disgusted at some of the goings on in connection with the QEcumenical Council, has left the 'Eternal City/ and is mediating a return to the Church of his Fathers. Tom King. — We recently stated on the authority of an American paper that Tom King, the rewowned pugilist, had turned preacher, and, in the usual lively Yankee manner, we are told that " instead of pounding he now preaches; that he only wrestles in prayer ; that he will hereafter engage only in knocking down sin, getting the head of the devil in chancery, letting his right fly at iniquity, and his left at hardness of heart, thus keeping the ring against all evil-doers and sending sinners generally to grass." Pretty, but not true. Mr. King is a respectable barge-owner down the river ; no doubt, an estimable member of society, even if he has not yet made himself famous as a preacher. He was a heavy weight ; now he is a lighterman. The Cologne Gazette publishes the letter of an instrument maker, who was one of the sufferers in the dreadful catastrophe at Konigsberg, on the 13th of September. He thus writes to his sister : — "As the G-ondola in which the King was come by, and he alighted from it at the garden, which was about 150 steps from the bridge, there arose, directly on the spot where I stood, the cry 'the bridge burns ! ' then there arose a fenrful press. I felt myself lost in it ;it was stifling. All pressed to the othet side; the balustrade suddenly broke, a piece of forty feet, and all who leaned upon it fell into the water. Now the thronging became greater; there arose on every side a frightful outcry.- I clung on by a man, who again held fast by others. At this moment a knot of men came by. I received a push, and fell overhead into the water. The push was however so violent that I was thrown far over others who where already sinking, and could again rise to the surface. As I can swim I could help myself, I looked around me, it was a fearful scene; over eighty human beings struggled in agony for life with a terrible cry. I swam to the land, when I suddenly felt myself seized by the leg; a fearful terror oveacame me; I dived under, exerting all my strengh to get free. I got free. Immediately afterwards I was laid hold of by the shoulders; it was a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, whose last chance of rescue it perhaps was, for she was near death. I felt pity, put out all my strength to get to land; but when I came near where the principal fall had taken place a youug man clung to my arm. Ou one side the girl, on the other the youth— rit was too much. I cried for help put forth my whole strength yet once more. I was ten feet from land, when a rope was thrown to me, to which I clung, but lost strength and conciousness and went under, the girl and youth with me. An hour after I opened ray eyes; I lay on the land in one of the gardens. A boat had come and had immediately taken us out. That was an awful night. My coat had been torn to pieces, so that I lay there only covered with rags; I was already much swollen for I swallowed a great mass of water, but I was again alive. I also had the pleasure of again seeing my two companions in misfortune alive. They, like myself, had been warmed and brought to life again by continued friction. Not far from us lay twenty-seven dead bodies with stiffened features. How many more have been found I cannot now tell you."