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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 83, 21 August 1863, Page 2

The pressure on our space occasioned by the Northern ami other intelligence, compels the holding over of inter alia, an urticle analysing the sly grog soiling question, which will appear in our next. The inhabitants of one of the suburban streets complain thiit the night before last they wms roused from their first slumber by a gentleman connected with local literature, who, having evidently been dining out, knocked violently at the (k<oi'B "f the neighborhood, and insisted that he was at the altiir of his own penatos. They request n.s do mention thai, though the postprandial frolics of a T?yron or a Burns uii»ht have been amusing the stormy gaiety of the Inverear^ill scribe h'js, the other night found very much the reverse.

Yesterday the Resident Magistrate's Court * was thronged upon the occasion of sentence being pronounced in the sly-grog cases. His Worship (M. Price, Esq.,) before inflicting fie fines ably commented upon the .leading features of the cases, and the question of reliability of the Avitncsses for the Crown. He had to compliment Mr Macdonald for the able way in wTiieh he had conducted the eases for the CrcAvn and the Superintendent of Police ; also, the Barristers present, for the excellent manner in Avhich they had managed the various defences. The following were the sentences pronounced : — T. ITemmingway, fined £SQ, and C,s 6d costs ; Edward Mooring, do ; A. G. Pulling, do; G. Harrison, do ; William Wilkinson, do; John Wild, dismissed; Alfred Sugden, fined £50, and 6s 6d costs ; Patrick Finnigan, do; Stephen Cusack, do; Mrs M'Anish, dismissed ; William Hunter, fined £50 and Gs Gd costs ; F. 11. Lee, do ; Ralph Shaw, do ; Charles Nyulesy, do ; William Boyor, dismissed; David Bethune, do; D. McFarlane, do ; George Rees, fined .£SO and 6* Gd costs; Andrew Smith, dismissed; Wild Stark, do ; Jos. Thomson, postponed ; Henry Fry, fined LSO and costs, 6s. Gd. The whole defendants fined, entered an appeal. Owing to the too great pressure on our space, the following Customs and Shipping returns were crowded out from Tuesday's Summary for Kurope : — Amount of duty paid for tho month, 17th July 1 1 17 th August, £352 i, 3s 10 ; tonnage inwards J for tho same period, 29*28 ; outwards, 1878; tonnage inwards, (coastwise) SO2 ; outwards, 698. Tho English Opera Company have drawn this ■week fair houses at the Royal Princess Concert Rooms ; though the wet nights have of course been prejudicial. Madame Carandini has been in good voice. On Tuesday evening she sang with g-eat effect the almost venerable " Power of Love. It is an air which has made Balfb known over the ends of tho earth, and the audience the other night showed that they appreciated its flowing measure, often heard though it must have been. Mr Shcrwin was very favorably received in several popular ballads, and Mr Small was vociferously applauded in his local songs. "The Sly Grog Informers," &c. Ilis nigger monologue apropos to that mysterious individual " Tho Oder Man" created great fun. The trovpe sing to-nig!^ at the Mechanics' lnstitute. "We are informed that the Jetty a-ul its be'ong ings have been taken into serious consideration h v tho Government ; and that the result of this consideration has been t.he appointment of a Government Wharfinger. For this office has been chosen Captain Callow, a gentleman of considerable liusl--ncss capacity and experience in shipping-, who ha* lately been occupied in connection wiLli the Flying Mist. We understand that radical alteration tending to increased commercial and shipping facilities will bo immediately instituted. This is a move in the right direction. The following are the cmvictions which have taken place, before Matthew Price, Esq, It.M., Invercargill, during the month, from loth July to loth Aug. :— Drunkenness, 29; breach of the peace, S; common assault, 4; assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty, 3 ; furious riding, 1 ; indecent exposure of the person, 1 ; using: obscene language, 1 ; working a horse without consent of the owner, 1." slaughtering cattle without license, 2 ; leaving a horse and cart in a public thoroughfare, 2 damaging a public building, 1 ; stray horses, 2 . making in all, 51 convictions. State of the Gaol for the month' ending loth August, ISKS. Sentenced to hard labor, 11; under remand, 2; debtors, 3: lunatics, 1; total, 20Received during the month, 23 ; discharged during tic month, 23, Of the twenty-three received during the month, six were for drunkenness ; five for breach of tho peace and resisting the police in the execution of their duty ; six for debt; four for disorderly conduct in the streets ; one for medical examination, being of an unsound state of mind ; and one under remand, charged with larceny.