SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF TWENTY LIVES.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 467, 18 February 1869, Page 2

SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF TWENTY LIVES.

(BYELECTRIC TELEBAPH.) (prom our own correspondent.) Wellington, Wednesday. The ship St. Vincent, which arrived at this port from Cardiff, and which is owned by Messrs Potter, Wilson, and Co., of G-lasgow, has been wrecked on the coast, and nearly all hands on board were drowned. The St. Vincent started from this port for Lyttelton on Saturday. After leaving the port, she encountered a heavy south-easterly gale, and on Sunday night she was wrecked on the Mokomoko rocks, off Cape Tarakarai. The captain of the vessel, eighteen of the crew, and a passenger named M'Kay, were lost. The mate and the sail-maker only were saved. The vessel became a total wreck. The Assembly has been further prorogued until the 14th of April. Francisco, the great black drummer, first with Cooke, Zoyara, and Wilson's Circus, and then of Foley's late troupe, has died of the small-pox at Wanganui.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COUBT. e Wednesday, Feb. 17. ' (Before J. Giles, Esq., 8.M.) [ ASSAULT. V John Haydn, usually known as "Dublin Jack," was charged with 8 assaulting Charles Nolan by striking j him with a jug, and thereby causing a a wound. Haydn : I am.guilty, Sir. I believe I £ was in liquor. '""'I don't remember nothing of the affair. Charles Nolah: I am a miner, working at Lyell creek. I was sitting in Monahan's Occidental Hotel yesterday morning, when Haydn came in. He and a man named Kirwan commenced talking about the shares , in their claims. His brother " Andy," who was also present, said he had no I animosity against Kirwan ; that it was against Nolan and Doyle. He took up a knife to me, and at the same time Jack struck me on the bead with a jug. The jug was broken, and a piece of it was afterwards taken out of my bead. I gave him no provocation. Ail I said was that I wished to have ;no conversation with him. We had been working together, and there had been a dispute between us about mining matters. I could not say whether Jack was drunk or sober. It was early in the morning, but I do not think he was sober. Inspector Franklyn said that as the defendant had pleaded guilty, he did not intend to produce any further evidence. Haydn : I know nothing about the case, your Worship. I must have struck the man. I won't say a word about it. lam sorry if I did do so. I never had any dispute with the man. The Magistrate said that what the

defendant said did not go far to exonerate him, except so far that he had not premeditated malice. An assault of this kind was a very serious matter, and such as had frequently caused a man to be placed in the dock before a jury on a charge of manslaughter. The fact of his being drunk did not excuse him. He had several times been before the Court, charged with breaches of the peace and other i offences, and on former occasions he - had been dealt with very leniently. t He (the Magistrate) could not, howt ever, allow this sort of thing to go on. 3 He could not treat lightly this case, 7 which would have justified him in sending it for trial before a jury. He gave him as light a sentence as he could by giving one month's imprison- , ment and hard labor. Haydn: Won't you put a fine on me, your Worship ? e The Magistrate : No. Certainly e not. THREATENING I/ANGTJAGE. e d Andrew Haydn was charged with lid™* f««rnrda thp, same .complainant el the threatening words that ne would t do for him " and " would take his life." Nolan stated that, in the Occcidental y Hotel, tho defendant twice rushed at j at him with a knife in hand, and he s used the threatening language referred to. He repeated the language at the police station. He saidhe" would put him away, as he had done with many others," and at the court-house he told ' the complainant he "would eat the ? heart out of him." y Patrick Kir wan . gave corroborative a evidence of the facts. e The defendant: I have nothing to e say. I don't remember the man at all yesterday. I was always on the best b of terms with the man. I never was • anything else with the man. s The Magistrate said he had a strange - way of showing it. He would require him to find security, himself for £SO, and two sureties of £25 each, to keep the peace for three calendar months.