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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1088, 17 May 1882, Page 2

The District Court will sit to morrow (Thursday) at 10 o'clock, when his Honor, Judge Brood, will preside. The only criminal case for hearing is the charge of passing spurious coin, preferred against John Cox. There are no civil cases stt down, but there will be one or two applications in connection with mining companies. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, a man named Siegfriedt, a shoemaker, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with using obscene language in a public place, in the presence of a police constable. He was the man who was let off lightly on Saturday, and the offences charged were clearly proved. Mr George Wiso, J. P., who sat on the Bench for the first time, sentenced the prisoner on the first charge to a fine of tAventy shillings or twenty-four hours, and on the second to a fine of £5 or fourteen days imprisonment The fines Avere not paid and the prisoner was committed to prisonIn a Gazette of the 4th inst. Mrs Agnes Blair is appointed an additional Public Vaccinator under the "Public Health Act' for the Drury district, The Colonial Secretary's autograph is appended to the appointment, The name of the Post Office in Canterbury formerly known as Doyleston has been changed to Cheddar, whether from any natural cheese producing qualities or other causes, does not appear. Good nature is not always well rewarded aud those who exhibit it on the rewards oe the future world, rather on those of the present. Constable Kelso who has only been a short time stationed here, is the latest example of the fact. On Monday last had to do procession duty with the acting R.M, and in sending him away got across Larry's Creek. On returning the stream was high and crossing was somewhat difficult for footmen. A roadman | wanted particularly to get over and the constable most good-naturedly allowed him to get on the horse to get away. The result Avas that the horse kicked up in mid stream and threw both constable and volunteer prisoner into the water. The latter got to bank somehow, and the representative of the law stuck to his horse, but with the loss of his shako and other fixings. The other sufferer must be born under an unlucky planet, for it seems that as soon as he was rescued from constable Kelso's care, he put himself in charge of the Reefton mail coach and that came to grief in the same creek, causing a smash of the traces, and compelling the half-drown-ed roadman to get into the river nearly waist high. Anyway there is something to be gathered from tlm brief hi&tory, an 1

that is that tho roads in Goldfield's districts should be morepcrfectly maintained. The numerous friends of the late Mr I Farrell will be pleased to note by adverI tisenient in another column that Dr ( Collins, his partner from Nelson, is about Ito visit Reefton for a few days. Dr Collins will be in Eeefton from Westport by Wednesday's coach, and may be consulted at McGaffin's Hotel for two or three days only, MrH. Williams, photographer, will le.ive for Greymouth before the close of the present week, so that those contemplating a visit to his studio should do so at once. We are glad to say that mounted-con-stable Bamford has sufficiently recovered from the late very serious injuries he received to resume duty, and on Monday last was able to don the blue. It is to be hoped that, after the three narrow escapes he has had, he will in future be move fortunate, and that his chapter of accidents is now filled up. At the sitting of the R.M. and Warden's Courts on Monday last, owing to the absence of Mr Lucas, Clerk of the Bedch, at Westport at the perjury trial, Mr Alfred Corfield, cadet, had to do duty, and we can fairly congratulate liim on the manner/ in wliMi he abutted himself.^ Dijri-_g'*TO^ the 'R.M. Cou_V "the Magistrate was* of course quite at home, his previous long experience standing him in good stead, but when the mining cases were on the carpet, his youthful coadjutor evidently rendered valuable counsel, and in the most satisfactory way. The Acting Resident Magistrate and Warden had an easy day's work on his initiatory sitting on Monday last. The whole time occupied did not exceed an hour, and the business for hearing was of the lightest possible description. He left for Westport at about one o'clock under the escort of mounted-constable Kelso. In the Warden's Court on Monday last the following applications for gold-mining leases were dealt with by Acting Warden Baker : — W. Hindmarsh for Shannon Gold Mining Company, recommended ; do. do. Volunteer, refused ; P. Brennan, San Francisco, recommended ; do. do. * Great Republic, recommended ; W. G. Collings, Royal Saxon, recommended ; do. do. Cressida, recommended ; G. Wise, Royal Exchange, recommended ; do. do. New Chum, recommended; M. Byrne, Lady Gordon, adjourned ; Connor and Carter, South British, do. ; J. Pollock, Evening Star, recommended ; J. E.Wearne Koh-i-noor, adjourned till next Court day. The applications of the Eureka and Great Eastern Companies for special claims were adjourned for survey, as were also those of the Globe and Occidental Companies. A head race was granted to the Globe Company. This comprised all the business before the Warden and the Court then adjourned. The only case heard on Monday in the R.M. Court was Heslop (Rate Collector for the Inangahua County Council) v Jacobsen, to recover thtyjum of £2 12s!, rates alleged to be due Dy the defendant on premises situated in" tho Strand, Reefton. Mr Lynch appeared for the County Council. The facts showed that the defendant had let the property in question to a yearly tenant named Buddie, and the latter's name was on the roll. Though he was in the district, and at any time could be found, the collector elected to sue the proprietor for rates due, and hence the action. Defendant pleaded that he was not liable on the above grounds, but the ! Magistrate gave a verdict for the amount claimed, with costs of Court. Subsequently Mr Jones applied on behalf of defendant for a re-hearing, which was granted, and the case will come up on next Court day. On the first verdict being given, Mr Lynch applied to be allowed the professional fee which the Magistrate disallowed, remarking that in the Courts over which he had had jurisdiction, professional fees were not allowed in cases under £5. When the books of the Postal Savings Banks throuhgout the colony were closed for the month on the 31st ultimo, tho balance at credit of depositors amounted to no less than £1,310,819, a very substantial sum, as representing savings in hard cash. The deposits during the past quarter exceeded the withdrawals by £84.031, and this excess was spread over every postal district in the colony with the two exceptions of Thames and Westport, where there was a small balance on the other side. A Wellington Exchange has the following : — The police intend laying an information against Captain Irr, of the English barque Peru, which sailed for London a day or two ago, charging him with having taken a prisoner from the custody of a detective. The circumstances connected with the case are of a peculiar nature. Detective Chrystal proceeded on board the barque just as she was about to sail for London, and arrived with a warrant for the arrest of the cook, who it was alleged had stolen a sum of money, and was successful in finding him^ with the articles said to have been stolen. On regaining the deck, however he was surprised to find that the Peru was under way, and steering for the Heads, and that the boat in which he had gone off to the vessel was nowhere to bo seen. After the ship had cleared the Head;*, Chrystal remonstrated with the captain, who replied that he intended taking him to England. To this the detective objected, and intimated that unless the captain put him ashore he would jump overboard and attempt to swim to land. Seeing that he was in earnest, Captain Irr agreed to put him ashore, but would not allow him to take the cook with him. The detective was landed about six miles from town. This action of the captain has led to the information being Liid, and it will he served on him should he again visit the colony. The authorities intend to bring tlu matter undor the notice of owners of tho vessel.

The Sydney Morning Herald, in an article on -hi- Arthur Gordon's conduct in sending for riir George Grey, says : — "" It is very safe to predict that trouble and discontent will result from the action of Sir Arthur Gordon, a renewal of that i trouble and discontent which have followed very persistently in that gentleman's gubernatorial footsteps. His almost imperial sway in Fiji resulted in anything but fusion of the races and a resolve to work together for a common good. His policy has 'had the effect of breeding an ill-advised presumption on the part of the blacks, and of increasing the old spirit of haughty contempt amongst the whites. He was hissed in the streets of Suva, and the planters held jubilee upon the day of his departure. In Zealand lie has not been more successful. His abilities and attainments are valueless, because he lacks the faculty to accommodate himself to the proclivities rather than the needs of the people with whom he is officially brought iv contact, and possibly he is unfortunate in Na\v Zealand iv following the ablest of Australasian Governors. r.