RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 33, 8 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

[Before LowTiu-ut Bkoad, Esq., E.M.] Dron v. Fisinr. — Action to recover £13 9s 3d for goods supp ied. Mr Acton Adams appeared lor the plaintiff and Mr Atkinson for tho dtfeudant The case whs somewhat complicated, the goods having been supplied by plaintiff to defendant when the lormer was keeping a ttore. He, however, had since that time assigned his book debts to Messrs Buxton and C>., and was then employed by them as eul eetor. The Magistrate decided that the action sbould have been brought by Messis Buxton and Co , and dismissed the case. Henry Percy Knyvett was charged with driving 250 eheep uver the Wodbum run in the Motupiko Valley, the propcity of Mr Henry Holland. Defendant admitted the charge, Btating that he was not aware at the time that he was on tbe VVoodbum run. In reply to a question from the Bench, Mr Canning, the Inspector of sheep, stated that offences of this kind were not common, this being the flret that lad come under his notice. His Worship said that he had the power to inflict a fine of one shilling per head for every sheep driven, but as this was the first case of the kind he thought that one penny a head would be sufllcimt, together with the costs, which amounted to 148.

TnE JV. Z> Jm?itiys ? .--"Tbe Ne'son Regatta Committee have issued* their programme, and announced the amount of the prices to be offered for several events* fiie necret&ry has written ib the secretaries of the Wellington boating clubs, inviting crews from Wellington, and it is probable more than one orev? will be sent from this city. Mr Firman has announced bio intention of Bailing the yacht Xariffa across the Strait to contest the yacht race*" $\ C; Leggelt, clerk of the Auckland Provincial, Ctfuncil^ has been, ctimmitted for triul oti a charge df embezzling £80, the amount voted for hooks for the library, and which was drawn by him a year ago. The Auckland correspondent of a Southern paper states that Mr and Mrs Hoskins are expected there by the next steamer from Sydney, and will open at the theatre early this naofithj The Bishop of Nelson hosJ been exhibiting his collection of photographs &c, at Reefton. The fruit-growers of Auckland complain of being unable to sell fruit at any proflt, owing to dealers importing inferior fruit, and they opopose opening a colonial fruit store. / The 6th of August next is the centenary of the birth of bauiel O'Connell. The New Zealand Tablet publishes an address from the accredited officers of a National Committee ap--1 pointed in Ireland to carry out the celebration of the centenary. 1 The hardship of compelling City Councillors, who do so much unremunerated work for the public, to sit on juries has been brought under the notice of the Otago Daily Times by a correspondent, who thinks they are better entitled to exemption than flremeo. A curious case has occurred in Auckland, where a man named Edward Martin has been committed for trial for stealing £14 from his raother-in-law. He pleaded, iu excuse, that things were made so unendurably warm at home that he took the nroney to go away with. He was arrested on board the Darwent, bound lor Sydney. A telegram to the Queensland Government, from their Agent-General in London, Mr Daintree, stales that the news of the burning of the Cospatrick bas operated injuriously on the prospects of emigration to the colonies. This was to bo expected, but it may be hoped that the "scare" will not be of a protracted character. The Weslport Times of Friday, says : — One of the Karamea settlers ! came into town this week to get letters for his corapanious. Ho reports that matters are generally progressing well | at the new settlement, and that fine weather has favored the settlers' work. With their wives and families around them their new homes are rapidly Assuming an air of rustic comfort. ; With our informant there also came \ down three other men who are on their • way to Nelson to bring to the Karamea ' their families. ;' Mr Louißson, of Nelson, deservfs very great credit for the indomitable ! pluck with which, under every discouragement, he ba9 endeavored to bring into use the iron paint (hematite) he makes from the iron ore obtained at Collitigwood. He may now fairly be congratulated on haviug achieved a marked success, the paint having come extensively into use. We understand that he is the successful tenderer for the painting, with his iron paint, of the whole of the bridges on the road between Wellington and Wanganui, for the General Government, and he previously had a contract for the painting of the railway bridges on the railway line for the Nelson Provincial Goverument These contracts together represent something approaching two miles of bridges, the painting of .which has to be finished within four months. —JST. Z. Times. Timon of the Mercury puts in print an Echo safe to raise a laugh. He says : — " An Echo reached me — dear me! quite a respectable Echo — a commercial Echo, in facty A firm that shall be nameless sent home an order lately for some iron safes, and of these it was expressly desired that some should be of Milner'a famous make, which was duly expressed. But the clerk— a junior — who copied the order had never heard of the redoubtable Milner, or else he was hazy in his orthography, for the order went home with this astonishing 'line' in it : — •Please forward, per first ship, six Milliner's safe — three with drawers, and three without.' Imagine the astonishment of the good folks at home. A man named William Doreen, alias Harris, lately trading as a storekeeper aod publicßD, apprehended on telegram from Huvelock, was brought up yesterday before Messrs Whyte and Humphrey, J. P's, on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretences, an 1 was remanded for three days. A sum of £500 was found in his possession. — | Westport Times. , (For remainder of Nehs see fourth page.)