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The brig Derwent, presented to the Naval Brigade by Mr C. W. Turner as a training ship, will be docked and rc-eop-pered. She was built in 1805, and yet when a test was made of her timbers, her garboard streak, thirteen inches of .solid oak, was found as true as the day it was put in.
In the Magistrate's Court yesterday a widow sued Hi E. Nathan for £«, being moneys excessively charged and distress illegally levied. The evidence showed that the plaintiff gave a bill for £60, but received only £49. After paying £12 in weekly instalments she gave a renewed bill for £51, paid £-1 of this, and then renewed the bill for £55. By February she had paid £9 oft' this, when the defendant required a new bill for £GO. The plaintiff refused, and defendant levied a distress. Judgment was μ-iven for plaintiff for £20 excessive chartro. and £10 illegal distress.
The; following contributions have been forwarded to the Harbor Board for the Sailors Homo at Lyttelton:—£2so each, Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co., the New Zealand Shipping- Company, Mr C. W. Turner, and Mr P. Cunningham. The Government have given £500. The Harbor Board grants pound for pound.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3629, 28 February 1883, Page 3
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203CHRISTCHURCH. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3629, 28 February 1883, Page 3
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