RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

West Coast Times, Issue 52, 3 October 1865, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before G. G. FitzGerald, Esq., TIM.) Monday, Oct. 2nd. LacecNY. — John Barman pleaded guilty to stealing 70 feet of timber from the premises of John McGovern, res-taurant-keeper, Revell-street, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. Sampson Ashore. — William Adams Was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with damaging Government and other property. The Government property alluded to consisted of a pair of handcuffs, with which the constable had secured his prisoner ; but tho strength of the man exceeded that of the material of which the handcuffs were manufactured, and hence the charge. The prisoner pleaded drunkenness and perfect unconsciousness of what had transpired on the evening of his revelling. Tho aggregate fines inflicted amounted to £3 ss, which were immediately paid.

The Wrecks Leonidas and Dolphin. — The enquiries into tho causes of these wrecks were adjourned until Friday next, to enable the necessary witnesses to appear. James Tier, charged by Mr. Patten, Collector of Customs, with 'having acted as pilot on tho West Coast without authority, was remanded till Friday next.

Several civil cases of trifling importance also occupied the Court after the mid-day adjournment.

ToTAli LOSS OP THE OPPOSITION CALIFORNIA Steamship "Golden Hole." — The steamship Golden Rule, running on tho line from New York to Nicaragua, was wrecked on the morning of tho 30th May, on the Koncador Reef, about thirty-five miles from the island of Old Providence. The steamer was bound from New York to Qroytown, Nicaragua, and had on board about 620 passengers for San Francisco, besides a full c>ew, all of whom were saved and landed on the island with sufficient provisions to support thorn until they could be taken off. The purser readied Aspinwall on the 6th of Juno in an open boat, for the purpose of procuring a vessel to take the passengers to that port. The vessel made her first start from New York on the 20th of May, for tho voyage to Greytown, Nicaragua. On her passage down the bay an explosion of one of tho flues so seriously injured the engineer, that the ship was stopped and the man sent on shore fo.* proper treatment She next came into -collision with a ferry-boat, thereby damaging a paddle-wheel, causing another detention for repairs. On the 22nd she finally got to sea. At 3.40 a.m., 30th ultimo, a "thick morning," and during a heavy rain, she struck on a reef that runs out from the Island of Roncador. The vessel's speed at the time she struck was twenty-one knots an hour, and she went hard and fast on the reef. The scene on board was at once pitiable, for the poor passengers knew not at what moment they would be struggling in the water. The captain and ■officers, by good management and example, succeeded in allaying their fears and preventing a panic. At dawn the chief officer was despatched in a boat for the inhabited island of Old Providence to sock relief. As the day cleared up tho land was seen by one of the passengers, and the announcement was hailed with immense joy. The ship'B boats were all manned by tho crew and some volunteers, and all the passengers, 530, were safely put on shore. Nearly all the provisions and sails from the vessel were landed, tents were erected for the women and children, and on the following days temporary stone huts were being built by the men. It was expected that water sufficient can bo obtained by means of tho sails and from the crevices of tho rocks It being the rainy •season, no fears were entertained of a deficiency of water. The passengers managed to take ashore a change of linen, &c., but no heavy baggage. At half-past 1 o'clock p.m. on the 2nd instant, a boat, under command of an officer, was dispatched to Greytown, and at tho same time tho purser, John M. Rogers, started for Aspinwall in one of the quarter boats, manned by three of the crew and two steerage passengers, undor tho command of tho second officer, David Reid. According to the purser's memorandum there were on board at the time of the disaster : First cabin passengers, 76 ; second ■ditto, 105 ; steerage, 249 ; officers and crow, 90 —total, 620. Of whom there were— men, 35>1 ; women, 186; children, 93— total, 620. Tho Golden Rule was a fino ship, not quito two years old, and 3000 tons burthen. Tho passengers were subsequently taken off by the steamers Huntvillo and State of Georgia.— San Fiaucisco Bulletin July 1.