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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 April 1880, Page 2

There was a sitting of tlia Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts An Friday last, before W. H. Rerell, Esq.. B.Bf. Tbe following is a resume of the cases disposed of:— Dora t; O'Connor, a complaint for threatening language. After hearing the evidence, hi* Worship dismissed the case with 21s professional costs. Overend r. Thomas md Edward Lynch. Defendants were complatted against for endeavouring to re»"ue a horse from pluhitiff, while on the way to the Pound— case dismissed. Eaph party to pay h'B own costs. In the following civil eases, judgment wont by default :— New Independent Company v. lecher i same v. Ca?ley. National Bank v. Huddleston, £&9 4 8 ioj ; Dowsing and Lines v, T. Willisms, £1-4 10s 7d. In the Warden's Court, Maurice Dorp applied for an order to diesolvo a mining partnership between himself and O'Connor. Ord«r made, and claim ordered to be sold by; pubic tender, Jackson and Waudt v. if*

Peacock was a similar appliaation, and a like order was made. Nelson and Ooubrane applied for an ordar to restrain D. Morrison from encroaching upon their alluvial claim at Lankey's Gully, and lought £15 damages. The caie was dismissed with costs. Button v. Rosi. this was a case of disputed ownership, of ground, and after hearing the cvi« denoe, the Warden made an order for plaintiff to hold the ground pegged By him on the lOthMuroh. Defendant to p»y the colts o" the day. In the matter of the application by the Go 1 den Treasure Company for the cancellation of the lease of the United Band of Hope Company. This cane'wae called on at a previous sitting of the Court, but adjourned in order to allow the com* pany to Ale a reply. The Warden said I that having given the company an opportunity of paying the rent and going to work, andthey having failed to do either, lie had ho alternative but to recommend the cancellation of the lease. Dr. Thorpe, th» newly appointed Medical Officer of the Eoefton Hospital, reached here from Westport on Monday evening last, and on the following morning entered upon tbe duties of his office. Dr llonokton olosed his connection with the institution on Saturday last, and his family left Beefton for Nelson this morning, a large number of tbe residents being present to bid them farewell. During tbe heading of a ease in tbe War* den's Court on Friday last , the ownership of •> disputed alluvial claim was fonnd to hinge upon tbe fact as to whether the ground had been marked out by the prior occupant in strict oooformity with the regulations -that is by cutting trenches. It transpired that tbe original pegging was bad, /no trenches having been cut as required. The Warden, threfeore, upset the title to the ground, and at the same time observed that •Huvial miners should be most careful to conform strictly to the regulations in regard to pegging, as he should regard no oocupanoy as lawful unless where trenches were out at the corners of the ground. A meeting will be held at Dawson's Hotel this evening, (of, the purpose of organising an Amateur Dramatic Club. All persons feeling au interest in suoh a movement are invited to be present. A meeting of the stewards of tbe Reefton Jockey Club will b« held at M'Gaffln's Hotel on Monday evening next, at 8 o'clock sharp. Parties intending to subscribe to the Irish BeHef Fund would be kind enough to hand in their subscriptions to the treasurer, not later than Friday, 16th instant, as the committee have determined to forward the money by the English mail, which will close at 1 a.m. on Monday, i9th instant. Subscriptions to date amount to £193 95., inclusive of proceeds of the late coucert, amounting to £15 9s 6d. For the week ending Saturday last, the Alpine Company, Lyell, returns were, 178ozs of amalgam, from 110 tons of stone, obtained from the top plates. A daughter ot Mr Kirby, dairyman, Sydney, aged 10 years, was recently bitten by a black snake. Tbe mother immediately sucked the wound, and tbe father applied some of Underwood's antidote, m hen no ill results followed. Tbe same Jay a valuable foal belonging to Mr Kirby was bitten, and it died shortly afterwards. Two children in the same family have beett bitten, and cured by the same means. The Army and Navy Gazette of the 21th January says .*■— " So • Frou-Frou ' is to be restored to the boards of Her Majesty's ship and the rustle of the petticoat, the patter of little feet on the poop, and tbe spooning of the signalman and nursery-maid will again have their place in the interior economy of our men-of-war. Ten years have made the Admiralty forgetful of those causes which '■ led to a stringent order being issued against the residence of woman on board ship, and married commanders of training ships were reoently granted the plsasuro of their wives' society. And now the Flag Captains at Portsmouth and Devenport have been given permission to shift their residence and take their wives and families on board the flagships. It is a capital thing for the captain «, being equivalent to a very considerable addition to their pay, relieving them as it does of house rent and accompanying cxi penses, but the system was not found to work well in days gone by, and we fail to see any reason for believing that the former objections will be found to have been removed. The establishment of nurseries afloat will gire rise to to the belief thai: there really is a 'Pinafore* and* Bib' in Her Majesty's Fleet.' For exquisite absurdity commend us to the following delivered by Blder Sorenson, at the Mormon service in the Temperance Hall last evening. The Bldar speaking of an angel said s— >•« A great majority are mistaken about the form of an angel, and are much in error on the subject. An angel is a resur - iracted spirit without blood, but with fle»h and bones, and he was no veins. The air not being sufficiently buoyant to allow a figure of flesh and blood to fly through it." This certainly shows a lameutable ignorance of anatomy and aerostatics on the elder's part.— Auoklund Star The decline of tbe priie-ring has, it must probably be admitted, been following by an increase of brutality in tbe method of fighting, and " fair pLy* is no longer • a jewel ' in the eyes of those who tike part in or witness personal contests. Differences are not now as a rale guttled by fista, but often by both fists and feet. Kicks follow bio** and blows follow kicks until one or other of tbe combatants is te 'iously injured. Some observations on this point were (says the Pall Mull Budget) Made by Lord Justice Brett at the Lancaster assizes, when prssing the very mild centence of two month's imprhontnent on a young farmer lound guilty of tbe man* slaughter of another farmer by killing him in a fight. In commenting upon tbe fact that

the prisoner bad hit the deceaeed 4 below the I belt,' and also upon the practice of unfair | fighting which now prevails in Lancashire,. < the Judge said he had made up his mind | that if a man fought fairly, although fighting ( was contrary to the law, he would not punish j him should an accident result from the fight. { In the present case not only had the prisoner . struck tbe deceased in the stonaacb, but after be was down he had kicked him, which made the offence ten times worse. It was bard to believe that a•• human Englishman ' could allow himself to do euoh a cowardly act, and itmada him (the Judge) shudder to find that Englishmen could da »ueh things. He thought it should be the anxious endeavour and wish of everyone ia this country to bring about a state of things that tt«d to «wt in every part of it. He could recollect in Ins own time that in no village in England that he was aware of, when two men went out to fight upon a quarrel would one flgbt unfairly, becaase if he did everyone in the village would scout him. Now it bad come to pass that Englishmen fought like cowards and took unfair advantages, and sometimes used the knife. Such conduct was really degr .ding, no doubt i but on tbe other hand, U should be remembered that of latejears Englishmen have been taught by judges and magistrates that it is no great offence to kick even their wives to the point of death.