ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 219, 2 September 1862, Page 5

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

THE DUNSTAX DIGGINGS (To the Editor vf the Daily Times ) km,--I have just h.- f .n favored with a si-Wit of al>outtlirre ftennyw-eighlsof .lark roii-h fiC a!v <?o!d from HarUy's. tin; result of two tin dishful* oYwnih dirt. It was brouirht to town by two men who .nta'ed to mo that they obfmi.flij it in a very short timo at adutnijcDol te.j yards from the banks of the river parallel with a bur. They further stated, in aiwwi-r to my enquirwvthat while there k a K wtwuUnf provision* on the <%?j»k«, and consequent di.s^tti-s----inction yet upon the whole the prospects arc very ™ cnurapim?; that they themselves are retnriiiuß im mediately-having been scut clown by their ?„„** soelyior t»e purpose of purchasing provisions, and other nppliiiuws necessary for the purpose of canymg on the _ works. The men appeared to he straifffjtfiinvar. f intelligent, bonafide «iiW« mul \ have not the slightest doubt of the truth of their statements. I nm, Sir, Yours truly, r, , i i ti . Thomas Little 2 o clock p.m^; Exchange Hotel, Sept. 1, 1802.

7 he-London Market GAKDKKKR.-The growth of London has pushed the market gardener in ad ually into the country, and now, instead ot Ke\idin* up las produce by bis own waggon, he trusts it to the railway, and is oicen thrown into n market fevr-r by a late delivery. To compensate him, however for the altered state of the time*, he ofloa sells his crons like a merchant upon- Change, without the trouble of bnnpring more than a few hand samples in hi* nocket He is nearly seventy yearn of age, but looks waroely' fifty, and can remember the time when there were ten thousand acres of ground within four miles of Charing Oroas under cultivation for vegetables' be sides about three thousand acres planted with fruit to supply iho London consumption. Ile has lived to see the Deptford and Herraondsey gardens curtailed ■ the ffoxton and Hackney pardeua covemi with' houses; the Essex plantations pushed farther offand the ■ Uroiuptoii and Koiihington numerica—the homo of vcijetab'cs for centuries—ting up and aown witii International Exhibition temples, and Italian gardens that will never prrow a pea, or send a single cauiiilower to market. He has lived to see (JucrnEoy, Jersey, Cornwall, the Scilly Isknda, Holland' Belgium, nnd Portugal, w.th many other mora distant places, competing with the remote outskirts of London bricks smd mortar, and has been sta/*t« red by seeing the market supplied with choice early peas from snch an unexpected quarter as French Algeria. —Cornhtli Magazint.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Monday, Septbmbbu Ist. 1862. (Before A. C. Strodo, Esq., R.Jf.) Drokkbnnbss.- Henry Staiulish was for this oflence fined 2(K, or in default 48 hours' imiiri«onmentj Jo,oph l) ( ,l!, y , i 0 3., or 24 hours ; and S. Hall <wlio did not appear) 2Js. Alleobd Stack Fimxo. - Samuel Morris way enured with having, on Momlnv The 20th ult., «t fio to a stack o. hay and straw belonging to Mr. S. tli M° f * th,° L p'.)er I/flrlK)r 'lifif nct- Arw. Sliide stat.il Hint about nine o'clock in the momluc, while srnadiner_)iw.r her h.iabi.nd'a tent, she kw the nrisoin;r, who livpb nenr with hia father, cower down i-ichin.l tbcHtaok, and in a-fuw minutes nfterhe left' i w:i H nii injhlnw. She diit not see the prisoner fcln.co n nwtch. The prisoner came a»aiu about eleven, and four o'clock ; and c«eh tiino ho •' piH the tire together. ' The foiee near wa* burning all the tune. Ihe prisoner could have struck » match without, her seeing him.

J>y Mr. fcoiitk (lor the prisoner): She did notcoio or sneak to the prisoner when she first saw him b->. bind the alack, lie remain, d oa the ground where t.iJ-stack -was until 12 o'clock. At ll o'clock lie , walked up to the lire, and with a glick put on the ton wJmt remained uhburno.l.- She did: not .peak to him at all Her husband c.rtiie homo about 12 o'clock. ll* looked at the lire, but did not go down to it. At 4 o cl«x:k, when the prisoner went nrnl put the fire together ajram, lie sat down beside it, and smoked bis pipe, Her husband went to town to inform th« police next day He did not speak to tlie prisoner before S«i'»g. 1 Jie stick wm not composed of weeds: it, was of wlie-it-straw and rye-grnsa bay. It might be worth •U. (Laughter.) Slie ami hex husband bfld constant dispute W iih the prisoner* father u:id famiiv as to the land on whi.;h tho stack stood. t Tiio Magistrate thought it was useies'ito waste more time over the matter. -Tho ease must bedtMiiksed. Civir. Uask». Lnscomba v. Isnaes —ThU wa* a claim for £12 Is a baking) due l-jratchit-cti "conunissioii, &c,, on th«« eivfii.in of an auction mart and oUn:e.iin Jtltystnet T/iepmntiirv.'w represented by Mr. Cook, and the dffemlttiit by .Mr. B.irlon. Tiie rnvin ground of deienctj was, that the plaintiff having had the u?e of tht in-u-t lor «i week, for the sale of the LitUo Dimwiin uivpertv, and havtug n-ree.l Co pay £!5 for that i N , lie wa-i nmro tli.-m sutljciently reinujicnited, serf up Uiat h« hud iitiurcd the defendant* -property, in- putuiix the auctu» ; i-r.:oui flx,»- below the btr^-t "level. j-lieplnmtiff.J'latf.l that, hewn; restricted a^ to the Jiwt floor !«vel by the height of the ndjoininixproiwrfy }h> fold the .Ji-ffirlaut ti.at it w.>ulil be ln-t£ ,-r to !?o h|Ji,'h«y below the ».-lrrvt line, ho ,« to train h.ji^Jit for I. Ie iriitrt; ihat the dffendant consented, «a>-i-««r *• Do the be-a y.u cr.u for in« ;" but that the h\xl m<Aven to the plaintiff by the city sun^-yor, had been r,iis«l R.'miewhat in layin- tha f .otj.atU*. The defendant cioniwl mat he ever nuthouscd or t»ti»eiitc<J to the .uiJihiif? U-iu- placed below the street level ; nor tlid lie ever irjak- any <^ni!itio:i onvqiiircju.-iit that the iii'j»«T 11 mr ihoui.t Jjui! in with that of tho .vijotuinir liiiiidiu^ b.-!u,v. Jfwloft n '.\ u> »|.e pluiutiifi* .skill iu»<lthetmj!*uj tiio contract. The A^plaUte Com' jwny iuvl vM»t ii a bill for Ll I7s. 01, for woodwork isccv. kny to kc-p tho asphalli! from fLwuig iul(» thmart mid p-.i-ti.iti of one of the windows hid to be Ktiarled. U> j.i Went pa-^n ;cr« walking through. A juutv from tut? country. wni:t A i t-o purehxw the build--11)7. H«> (the defendant} ;u-k«l LJ.^Jand WO3offered I.KW>; u.'ii.K-tatiotw were ftdn- on, but the oilef.-r tum.'.i iiuuy in (fis-usf. ns >-n,n m ho bow much t.».' ilo.n-tv.4 wa.s l,«| oW the stivet. The bujl-:l e r*s contrict w.w tji- LJO.J 10*. : but t),,* pniam.l biwl c.«t v:;«; w.iy. an 1 another, ii'-arly J^SW. lie ctruinlv nutif l not hive a<XTpt«'« the Ll«3t)0. Ti.c Masiitrat* s,.id ho was'of opinion that tin; d«jtciiilant hai j,i»m-r«I da.nr./f tliro« s lt (h« building not bci»i:.!i!<te..ii upon. n kvt-1 with the t,tm.t; and .["•;»t, thc-refuri'. tk»plnintift"wttf«not i-iuitft-d to the ■MiU amount of hta. claim: The cwe-inu^ be di,»IliiSsfWl. C-auifjrou v. Bunfca.—Verdict by consent fur Lls ami cot*. Alfnvl j an , w . -The, plaintiff, a man of «>«<'r, churned 1/2 f«. from the defendant, su-wanl on l>p.ir4 th.j (imiin- Star, for nis.e davt.' bbor as cook \ enhct by dt;f'aa!t. In wvi'rnl crws, verdicts-were gtrcn by default. im<i others were dismissed.