Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 7 May 1879, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1879.

So far as the public are concerned, ■ the experiment of setting aside a certain day iv the week in order to allow the " great unpaid " an opportunity of making or kebping themselves acquainted with thte administration of justice has proved a failure. By degrees till the business that does not ea\l * r Immediate attention has ' ueen torefi B e i L\ n the Wednesday, fe, wh fc h ©,|rSices are s^^moued ah per roster. But Justices '£re m fitinjie respects like the spirits of the Vasty deep; you can call them", but they will not always come And so it happens; frequently happens, that suitors, lawyers, reDorters, ,and those of the public who take a ibligut in haunting the courts of law, are kept waiting for a quarter or half an hour while the messenger is despatched all over over the town trying to hunt up a Magistrate who has a spare hour at his disposal, and the inclination to take his seat on the Bench. This was the case— probably for the twentieth time— this morning. Five JP.'s had been summoned, but only one appeared, and it was twenty minutes after eleven before a second could be bagged. Fortunately, there wa3 but little business to be transacted, but had there been ten times as much, the delay would have been the same and the inconvenience, of course, infinitely greater, aa if would have extended to a much larger number of individuals. Unless the Justices cati be persuaded to meet with greater regularity, the^ Wednesday Court nuisance will become so intolerable that there will be a general outcry against it. The Bankruptcy Gazette of Now Zealand for the week ending Saturday last, contains a list of bo less than 75 bankrupts. Under the heading " Liabilities and Assets," William Saitnder?, <J? Christchurch, merchant, figures prominently, the liabilities occupying a considerable amount of space. The following- appear (among the principal creditors: — Colonial Bank, £5,040; N. Edwards & Co. (London) £35,739; Permanent Investment Association (Christchurch), £7,310; N.Z. Trust and Loan Company, £2,679; Sarah Box (Southampton) £5,000; Hon. George Buckley, £7.000; Trustees, W. B. Rhodes. £958; Dalgety, Nicholls, and Co., £1833; Edwards, Bennett and Co., £564; Wilson, Sawtell & Co., £1684; C. W. Turner, £1474; Jamison Brothers & Co., £540; Service & Co., £640; Kitchen & Sons, (Wellington), £612; Colonial Sugar Company, (Sydney), £1589; Scott Brothers, £598; Storer&Sons, (Glasgow), £570. The estimated value of assets over liabilities ia £16,489. A very neat little building that will be an ornament to the locality is about to be erected on the reclaimed land at the Port as a police station. The house comprises a commodious parlor, and two bedrooms, kitchen, scullery, and all conveniences. At the back will be the lock-up, containing two cell 3. For the contract to erect the buildings there were four tenders, a remarkable feature in which was that they were all within a very few pounds of one another. They were as follows :— C. W. Moore, £305 14s; E. Morris, £308 15s 61 ; A. Brown, £325 ; W. T. Good, £331. Mr Moore's tender was accepted. A defendant who was charged in the Court this morning with allowiag a horse to stray in the street and fined 5s and 7s costs, was rather astonished when told that be must go to Mr Oakey'a and buy 12s worth of law stamps, and return with them to Court before he could be freed from the clutches of the law. We understand that the Registrar of the Supreme Court has received a telegram stating that the conviction in the case of Gully, Town Clerk, v. Fell for a breach of the by laws relating to gorse has been quashed. It will be remembered that the appeal was argued before the Chief Justice at his late visit to Nelson. Judgment was then reserved, and was delivered an above in Wellington this morning. A 7 the Magistrates' Court, Brightwater, to-day, before J. W. Barnicoat, and G. Talbot, Esqs., J. J.P., Peter Archer, of Havelock, was, on the information of Charles Canning, Chief Inspector of Sheep, fined £20, and £1 7s. costs, for introducing 811 sheep into the provincial district of Nelson without holding a clean certificate for the same, contnuy to the 40th Section of The Sheep Act, 1878. James Wilson v. David Mills : action to recover £9 7s. for goods supplied. Judgment for amount, with costs, 15s.