RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 301, 7 September 1860, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Wednesday, September 5, 1860. [Before J,.PoYNTER,"Esq., ilesident Magistrate, and : • E. K. Neavcombe, Esq.]/ : \ «* Joseph Mundle, master of the Annie.Longton,1 was summoned by Thos.: W. Wrangles, master of the Constantine, for harboring runaway seamen of the Constautine; but no one appearing to prosecutethe case'was dismissed. John Lewthwaite, of the Wakatu Hotel, was summoned by E. Mitton, one of the police, for allowing two cows, his property, to stray. v 1 ' E. Mitton, sworn: Sawtheeows at 9 o'clock on Saturday evening last in Demerit's garden ; took them to the pound, and defendant's boy came for them. ': ' .'■■'' T ; Cross-examined by defendant: Found two cows in the garden; did not see them in the day time; did not previously threaten to impound them; put one of Turner's cows in the pound the same evening which I saw straying on Church Hill; dx>'not remember making threats whilst at the bar; was not drunk ; remember the conversation that evening, whilst at the bar. Fined ss. and edsts.- ; > ] . / ,' : John Turner, tailor, was also summoned for allowing his cow to stray away. The offence being admitted he was mulcted in the sum of 2s. 6d. and 9s. costs, which was immediately paid. ■ • : ' Robert Fellows was summoned by W. T. L. Travers, for £17 Is. 9d. for ale supplied when in connection with the Raglan Brewery. Defendant not appearing, judgment was given for plaintiff with costs. Hays v. Sancto, adjourned for one week: Wilkie v. Lowe pro J. Langford. No parties appearing the case was struck off. G. F. Bush v. Cother, for £2 10s. 6d. for professional attendance and medicine., Another week was allowed to give defendant time to come from Collingwood. Same v. Laney, for £4 6s. 6d. Defendant produced a contra account for £4 18s. 9d. which plaintiff denied. Proof, however,;,;-was: given that the doctor had the goods by Mrs. Ann White; . but as one or two things had to be investigated relative to the settlement of a former account by the late Mr. Fagan, it was allowed to .stand over till Wednesday next. . Same v. Westrop, for £1 14s. Adjourned for a week. . Same v. Wm. Fox, for 15s. Gd.for medicine supplied. Defendant refused to pay, as he eaid he had already paid it by executing some work for a person by the name of Williams, late collector, but■ who'had not accounted to the doctor for itj and as no receipt was produced that it had been ■paid, judgment was given for the amount with costs.* Defendant said that'sooner than pay it a second time he would suffer himself to be imprisoned for the amount. G-. Aiken (late auctioneer) was summoned by T. C. Batclielor, for £6 ss. 4d. Debt admitted by defendant writing a letter to the plaintiff acknowledging .the amount. Judgment for the amount with 3s. costs. / ~ '. Thomas Dovvnes was summoned by John Cann, tailor, for £1 2s. for goods supplied. Defendant promised to pay the amount at the end of the month. Costs Bs. , Morleyv. Wells, for £Q 12s. for work done. Judgment for.the amount with costs 9s. Whent v. Levienand G0.,.f0r £6 Is. 4d. tor work done. In this case the defendant being at the time in Sydney, and there not appearing any evidence to show that plaintiff was employed to perform the work, he was non-suited, Costs 9s. Baly v. Matthews, for. .£3 Os. 6d. for liqueurs supplied. Judgment for the amount with 9s. costs. . Thomas' Matthews v. G. F. Bush, for £8 16s. Bd. Defendant produced a set off reducing the amount to £1 Os. 2d. with 9s. costs. Defendant asked for time. x John Macdonald was summoned by William Souter for an assault. The offence was admitted, and he was fined 40s. and costs.

Career of a Clergyman.—The Newcastle Clifonicle traces the remarkable career .of the Rev. Blythe Hurst, incumbent of Collierley, near Lanchester. This clergyman was born at Winlaton, in- 1304, his father being a smith. At 7 years of age he was taken from school, and was sent to make, small nails at the smith's shop. To the age of 15 lie attended a Sunday Sobool, and in the meantime commenced to learn • the business of a patten-ring maker. About the time he was 15, Mi*. Hurst was led to think seriously about religion, and joined a dissenting body. He became a local preacher, and devoted all his leisure to mental improvement. He married early, and had to provide for a family, but contrived -'to purchase the necessary books to gain a knowledge of the French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic languages. While at: work he used' to wiite upon his "flame-stone" (the stone suspended before a smith's fire to protect the eyes of the workman) the conjugations of the verbs in whatever language he was studying, and in the evenings lie wrote his exercises and translated them. In the beginning of 1840, Mr. Hurst, being then an effective local preacher among the New Connection Methodists, replied in a pamphlet to some lectures delivered by one of the disciples of Mr.. Robert .Owen ; and-, this work was brought. under the notice of Dr. Maltby, the then Bishop of Durham, who, at once wrote that, ''although it might be written "by a common man, it was the production of no common mind.1' The bishop interested himself in th.ecase, advised Mr. Hurst as"to his course of reading, and supplied the means of following out this recommendation. A feud in the' New Connection Church at Winlaton," had induced Mr. Hurst and others to leave, and to become members of the Church of England; and in 1841 the " learned blacksmith" was ordained to the curacy of Gamgill, near Alston.' He was subsequently appointed4o the living of Sealey, near Hexluim; and since then to that of Collierley, near Laricbester, which he now-,holds. Mr; Hurst's preaching is .'said to be of 'a very high; order;- and in a■ course of lectures which he has^ delivered in Newcastle, he displayed great, information .upon .the Sinaitw inscriptions and on Kgyntian hieroglyphics. :'.'