RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 242, 8 October 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

[Before L. BaoiT), Esq., R.M.] This Day. William Boyle, charged with drunkenness, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, this being thu third offence within six months. George Herwin was charged with furiously riding through tho streets on Saturday last. On being nsked whether he was guilty or not, he replied, " Guilty, but the horse bolted with me," and further stated that he was drunk and had no control over the horse. Peter Levy, constable, stated that he saw the prisoner riding at a furious rate, and that he nearly ran against two ladies. Other evidence having been taken to show that life and limb were placed in danger by the prisoner's furious riding, his Worship said that he himself had happened to witness the whole affair, and the prisoner might consider himself fortunate that he was charged with this offence only. One little child had 8 most narrow escape, and it was a most fortunate thing for him that he did not appear there

charged with manslaughter. He should inflict a substantial penalty, there being no excuse whoever for the prisoner's outrageous conduct. Ee should fine him £5/ and £l Is Gd costs. * James Way, charged with using obscene language in a public thoroughfare, was fined £5 mr! costs, v;ith the alternative of fourteen days imprisonment with hard labor, he beinsr an old offender. Margaret Fitzsimmons was charged with a similar offence, and fined £5 and coa is, or in default fourteen clays iraprisonmen?.. Esmy Brown was charged with cruelly and unlawfully ill-treating and torturing ft horse on the 30th September, by cutting a piece off his tongue. Mr Atkinson who appeared for the defendant, applied for an adjournment, stating that he had only been consulted tbat morninjr, and bad not had time fo get up the case, or to obtain witnesses. The defence would be that the horse had fallen and bitten his tongue. Ho thought the defendant was entitled to greater confederation on ircount of the improper conduct of the press in commenting upon the affair, and taking for granted the truth of the charge. . . ■ . . His Worship stiid that if there was any possibility of proving that the darartge done to tho ho; so was the result ot no accident, the defendant should be allowed every opportunity of clearing himself of the serious charge brought against him. This was the firs I. time that anything; had been heard of n defence beinj^ set up, and he supposed that the press, like other people, had laken it for granted that the charge was true, since no attempt had hitherto been made to disprove it. The cage would be adjourned until Saturday. Isaac Harvey v, John Flowers, Henry Flowers, and John Powell. — Action to recover the sum of £5, being the value of two pigs iiliegsid to have been killed by the defendants. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Atkinson for the defendants. Evidence of a most, contradictory nature having been taken at some length, His Worship said he would reserve his judgment until to-morrow morning. For remainder of news see fourth page. /

An establishment for salting down beef for export, is now in full working order at Poverty Bay. The Hokitika Exhibition Committee have selected a design for medals, which they are to have struck off in Melbourne. The 'Geelong Advertiser alleges that the Lincoln sheep are gradually supplanting the merino breed on the rich pnstures of the Western district. The Supreme Court of South Australia has awarded £100 damages against Dr Dashwood, of Kooringa, for unskilful treatment in performing a surgical operation. Charleston has been Bhort of butchers' meat, and when a mob of cattle got through from Westport on Monday, " great cooking," says the Herald^ '* was the order of the day/' With regard to the manner in which the shares in the National Insurance Company have been rushed, a Dunedin paper says : — When the.share list closed, th&re had been applied for in Dunedin 135,055 shares, and in the country districts of CHago 13,979. The returns from the country districts are incomplete as yet, being only those to hand by post. A shocking accident on the Southern line of railway, Canterbury, recently occurred in broad daylight, by which a man named James Palmer, and one of a team of horses that he was driving, were kiilied. The scene of the accident was u Yankee crossing, about three-quarters of s milenorth of the Dunsandel station, ani the unfortunate man was crossing the line quite ignorant of the approach of a train, while neither the engine driver nor stoker of the train saw him in timo to prevent ihe catastrophe. The engine-driver, who had observed Palmer driving along the road, never thought that he was going to the crossing, and when he saw him do so, the train, which was going at the rate of about 18 mile3 an hour, was within 50 yards of the crossing", thus, although steam was at once shut off and the brake put od, a collision could not be avoided. At the time this occurred the two leading horses had just cleared the line, while the shaft horse was actually between the rails. The engine thus struck the shaft horse, and burled both it ana the deceased forward, while the dray was dashed against the fence, and the chains of the leading horses were cut, whirh fortunately set them at liberty, and they escaped unhurt. The train was brought to a standstill about 60 yards from the crossing, and the officials in charge of it at once went back to see the extent of the extent of the damage. Palmer was found lying neur the rails, about a chain from where the engine struck the horse, and his head was almost severed from the body, the only connection being a piece of skiD. Both face and body were of course extensively bruised, but none of the limbs were broken. The shaft horse was found outside the rails,? a short distance the crossing, -and quite dead, though not much cut. At the crossing it was found that the force with which the dray was burled against the fence had carried away a gate-post about 10 inches in diameter, and had also broken down a good portion of the fence. The dray itself was necessarily greatly damaged. Deceased had purchased some goods at Mr Henry's store, Dunsaudel, just before starting for home, and was then perfectly sober. He was a single man, and the only relative he is known to have in the colony is a brother who resides somewhere in the Tetnuka district. The New York Tribune gives the following: — Into the arid atmosphere of politics and bread-and-butter sometimes come a bit of romance of melting sweetness. Of such is the story of two lovers and a remorseless old father, -which has just been told by a Bostonian and must of course be true. Ten years ago a beautiful young Boston girl was sent to Boston Hills to arrest, if possible, the indications of approaching consumption. She recovered her health, and meantime inflicted a careless wound upon the heart of an intelligent and well educated young farmer's son. Unlike Lady Vere de Vere, she did not scorn his timid affection, but returned it heartily, referring hki to her father. That traditionally unromantic perrouage wouldn't heer of it. " Never, never shall a base mechanic wed my child! The man retired, went West, end made a large fortune, and the young woman married the man prescribed by her father. She went to live in France ; her husband died in two years, her Darents dying, she remained abroad. The memory of her first romance faded with her as with its object, who, though unmarried, was too busy in making money for ♦ .nder thoughts. Last year his business took him to Europe, an' one sight found him on a litttle stearr.tr plying between Marseilles and Leghorn. A storm came op, and a lady who had risen from her eeat to go below, was thrown overboard by a sudden lurch of the vessel. The " base mechanic" jumped after, and though in the dark tho steamer drifted away from them, they clutched a providential plank and floated until morning, when they were picked up by another vessel. During the night in the cold and darkness, they discovered in each other ihe loved and lose of earlier years. The old feeling came back in that fearful hour, and on their arrival at Malta they were married. End of the poetry. The rest is pros?.