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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1911, Page 3

In Connectiorrwith the competition for decorated table centres at tin. Otaki Show yesterday, the following result was declared at 0 o'clock last evening: .Mrs C. Noes I, .Miss .Mabel Prou.se 2 and .Mrs G. .Marriott :i. The voting confirmed the .judge's decision. " In addition to the cases reported in to-day s issue, a long li\st of deI ended civil cases was gone through. Details ol these, and of debt cases in which .judgment went for plaintiffs Hhrough defendants' default, wili be printed in to-morrow's Chronicle. The undermentioned tennis plavers will represent Levin against Otaki, at Otaki, on Saturday next, isi April .Messrs Stuekey, Abraham Rout, Conipton, Higginsou, .Mcl n tyre, Cut field; ~ '.\lisscs St.ickoy (2), -Mc.sdames Gardejier and N'ilsoi, Emergencies: Messrs Bidder r.i.d Hughes. Miss Wilson. Anv of the above who are unable to Mak-' the trip kindly notify the se.votary at once.

I homas Edwards was lined t!.l and costs (7s), at Lev in S.M. Court today, lor having entered licenced premises ([uring the currency of a proJiihition -order. Marcus Leo Augustine loxer, a juvenile aged twelve years, who admitted' having stolen two bicycle frames and two bicycle wheels. valued at £3, the property of Edward Henderson, was severely cautioned by tl!le magistrate and then discharged from custody. He was warned that if lie eamo before the court again he would be severelv dealt with. Hopu Vh'reinu (.Joe Williams) sued Daniel Hannan yesterday, at Levin, to recover £ t -Is as payment for work done on a contract. .Mr Cooper was counsel for plaintiff and Mr P. Harper, appeared for defendant. The contract was to do certain clearing ti." drai;:? on defendant's propertv, aggregating 13 chain:-;. 'Phe coiitract was to clear the drain thoroughly and remove all the grass from it Jhe defence was that the quantity of drains cleared had been overestimated ; also that the work had not been done thoroughly. Walter Ryder gave evidence that he engae;ed plaintiff to do some drain work. Previous to engaging Jiim lie saw plaintiff's work on Hannan s drain - about fifteen chains of it. Tt was a properly done job, so far as cleaning the drain went, and lie considered plaintiff's nharge of 3s a chain was a fair one. Williams's work gave witness complete satisfacttoii. Jimmy Hurumti testified that -18 chains of drain were cleared!. Daniel Hannan deposed that he let a contract to Kuru to clear the drains. Kuru transferred the contract to irenm, who worked intermittently at it. _ He. did not do the clearing as bargained for. The wort'b of what he had done was one shilling a chain. Hhe had not taken the loose mud out of the drain ; all lite had done was fo pull up the grass on the sides of the drain which was preventing the water from running freely. Was perfectly certain no silt had been thrown out. .11 Wat tor Uyclisr saw silt on the hank 'it„ must have been silt which axlhered to the cut grass. Arthur tiufl, labourer,'gave evidence that lie inspected the drain. Saw n'o silt on Abo banks; only grass and watercress. Could not say that silt had not been thrown out and afterwards overgrown with grass. ' Joseph Dunn, labourer, also gave evidence. lie said 1 the drain had been dragged, but no .sediment haft been tflijmwn out of it. From Is to Is 3d a chain would have been a fair charge to make for*, the work done. Albert Jackson estimated the value of cutting grass away from the sides oi a drain, and throwing it out, at from Is Gd to 2s per chain. Judgment was entered for plaintiff for £4 4s and' costs, tilie magistrate remarking that the balance of the evidence was in plaintiff's favour.