SERVICE OF A SUMMONS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 8

SERVICE OF A SUMMONS.

INTERESTING POINT,

A Very" untistiai positidiii with i-cgsrJ in , a civ'il • claim arose in tfto Magistrate's COTrfyestcrday. Cbuftsol for ihci defendant, objected to tho'ease being proceeded with-on the-ground that the strafinwms bad been served on a Sundav. Counsel for the. plaintiff said that the affidavit was to the effect that t-Jio service was mnde- oil- a' Monday. The husband of tho 'defendant wont into tho witness-box and swore t-bni SmW.n.v wtts tiro "day. ' Tho low was' qnotetf to show that sorvico: .on ri Siimfay cmud not ho!(l Rood. The- Magistrate said that-tho,position wna that tlie Pontiff's affidavit f;f son-V* had keen chniInnaed, nnd Hint this f.•>(•* wst »nw*i tlm tJnmtiff tho onus o? supporti'i" ♦''« nffirlbvit. IV DliifltW wAs it?V« <o onll as n witnMS t.h" r>.nt\ 'rho <it-'M !ho ftimmons. and the JLißistn't'" strioK the ease out.

"The Jarme-r ia iw.<.>« himself to bo th» backbone cf :b» -mtntryin more wnys thati one. wnij's n Pohoaui ei>rri.wpi--"]MVt to_tl.o. iinrowliemia "Chroiiide, I.ovm. "1.-.wt \Vc B k when the county oir.ivloyee.R wcro totally- nnolilo to (Hine with the ronds on nccofliit of tho reoftnt ikmils, iwojvo Gt-ftlivart farmoM RtowlOcrcd their shovels and did such spkntlid. work that ft- nir eonM travel to VukOMft alter,t-liwr da?s tnil. The way tiwse f.rnner? swung their sltovein tths an fthject lesson to the <?as-:i3.1 nnvvT, ten large slips being den red dtiri.Hg the <!;iy."

Messrs. Sca.Sou, SleiWen »nd Pavilh •oiißincOrs, W-elli»atdn, faH tenders for. tlm construcHon of Six chains of ooricroio eal. yert at Pay's Buy, Tenders close-e(i Ss-t----urdav, January-24,