A ROW ABOUT PAYING FOR A SILK DRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1700, 30 July 1875, Page 4

A ROW ABOUT PAYING FOR A SILK DRESS.

Mr. Warden Broad, of Beefton, has had an amusing case to decide, judging from the reports of the local papers. The suitors were Mrs King and Miss Wyldish, a dressmaker, and the dispute was over a siik dress, which was alleged on the one hand to have been spoiled in the making, and over charged for. For upwards of an hour, the fair disputants are reported to have kept the Court in. one long paroxysm of laughter. Miss Wyldish said, amongst other things, that she wa3 a "ladies' dressmaker," and that was her style of making out accounts. She had ch-rged 30s. for making the dress, 14s. for extras, 3s. for cotton silk, and for "loss of time in running about the account." In reply to Mrs. King the defendant said :-—" The extras have got nothing to do with you; that is my business. If you knew what a silk dress was you would not talk so foolish. I have made silk dresses for ladies and you are not one, and I never had any trouble with'them. You never had a silk dress before in your life." (Great laughter) At a later stage of the proceedings the plaintiff divested herself of part of her clothing in order to enable the defendant to better explain to the bewildered Magistrate the points of defect in the dress in dispute but the explanation only made matters worse. In vain the plaintiff stood for a quarter of an hour with her back towards the Magistrate, while the defendant was ' manipulating her (plaintiff's) pannier or Grecian bend, in order to point out its superiority to the one in dispute. In vain the sleeves, the body, the collar, the trimmings, the button holes, and the hooks and eyes were pointed out to his Worship. In vain the "pattern" pannier was turned up and turned down, this way and that, and almost wrenched from the well-developed form of the wearer. At last the belligerent dress was produced-pannier, skirt, body and all— and the defendant proposed that the dress should be tried on for the especial edification of the Bench, but his Worship explained that he did not know what, technically speaking, constituted a "got fit." The dress might fit like a sentry-box. and he would not know the difference. This discouraged the proposal, and the" dress was deposited upon the lawyer's table, and the fair disputants resumed the cudgels, and proceeded with the case. Finally judgment was given for 30s. for making, and ss. for extras, and the diess ordered to be given up.

Are you about to be married ? Have you built a house ? Do you wish to furnish economically ? If so, there is, without exception, the best 'and largest variety of carpets and floor-cloths in the province to choose from at the" City Hall, furnishing and drapery establishment. Holloway and Garlick furnish banks, hotels, offices, and private residences cheaper than any other house in town. In addition to Brussel, tapestry, Kidderminster, ana hemp carpets, they have flax, coir, and china matting, hearthrugs, woolmats (in all colors), door-mats (every requisite size), union and wool damasks, quilts, blankets, aheeting, curtains, etc. Before buying, inspect the stock at the City Hall. We are still selling gents' umbrellas at reduced rates : Silk at 7s 6d, 9s lid, 12s 6d ; alpaca, 4s 6d to 6s 6d ; ladies' silk, 5s lid and 6s lid ; alpaca, 3s lid to ss. Drapery, clothing, and millinery at prices to suit the times.—Holloway & Garlick, City Hall, 230, Queen-street. —[Advt 1