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West Coast Times, Issue 257, 19 July 1866, Page 2

It will be seen thai a mail for Europe, to be despatched by the Keera, will be made np today, closing at noon.

Wo recall attention to the " Bal Masque," to be given to-night, at the Prince of Wales Opera House, the arrangements for which, v.o bL^iove, are on a grand scale. Tho entertainment is of a very novel character in Hokilika,' and will no doubt afford a welcome variation, under the auspices under which it is to be conducted, of the amusements that have hitherto prevailed here.

The Grand Jury appear to have applied themselves, thus far, very assiduously to their arduous duties. During their three days' silting they have disposed of some forty-seven cases, finding true bille in the great majority of instances.

We have Dunedin papers to the 13 th, inst., but beyond a brief commercial report, they do not contain a single item of news worth quoting.

Several jurymen have complained to us of the inconvenience occasioned by tho omission by his Honor the Judge, to allow them to retire for the remainder of the day when a case is before the Court which is certain to occupy it until its rising ; and when there is, therefore, no probability of the services of a new jury being required. It is necessarily a serious loss to men of business to have to attend these protracted sittings of tho Criminal Court, and we are sure that the omission of any arrangement by which the burden may be lightened, can only be due to his Honor's not; having had his attention called to the circumstance