DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

( HV TEI.EO II AI’II - I’UU Pit ESS ASSOCIATION ,1 CLAIM OVEIi SIiEEP DEVI.. ( lIIHST.'HI IB 11. D.-c. After a hearing lasting several di’.w, lhe case was concluded in the s'i|ii'in: Court, before -in-lice Adams an I a special jure of twelve, in which Itobeit Mi'Elhitiimy, farmer-dealer, of AM(urfon. claimed from Pyim. Goti'd. Guinness. Ltd., sleek agents, the sum of L'!'7'-’'J HU. In December. 101 plain: iff slid I” Daniel Byrne, through Herbert An.iusiock agent of the i":--’i*I,-.nt (V.mpany. a line of 3250 cwos it "ns agreed tliat ti:c plain l ill' -hould U< < p (he sheen 011 hi- |U'o|terly uuid ffai Marv 5, 1020. lie did keep ilieu . utn ,|olv 1(122, when he was leM i -at Byrne was .lead. He bad tcas.m U. believe that this was not oi.rr*ov. I cla idled lor sheen. n I. am

items, a total ol L ( .b dd In--. The plaintiff was mm-".i'.cil on :'e . following ground' I hat titer.' 'as eo evidence that tlm agent had pricui'CO delivery, pal.n'.i.i" • widow -Im" ' i l,a t he had hini-cU a: ranged delivery thill there was no widen c whale".-,-in support of the eu'loin alleg'd m ilf statement of I laid', which We- lb it an acreni was liable when la- |>re-:.i< <1 a sale, whereas the evidence was that 1,0 was liable if Im acquiesced m a sale; that the custom has never I ecu in certain circumstances of'the case:' that- the evidence showed ihe agent was not. by cusiom. ic-00., si!,|,. for the price, but il wn> c-uly hiduty to make advance-, w the puiehe-cr-'thai if anv such ,-e'tom were nrw,,i. It wit.- uitreasonable : that. if. by :i!c L priceof the -lock to U'c -am- ev as the purchaser, that involved the fini *. io the gncsl cm n hat 1 purchaseibaton a-' wont.l l-. .' under tlm original coiitraci. A vendor could not claim for the price o! a lime of sheep, if a,Ter -oiling tin- Mmo,, Im h-d s.,!'i wool am! bimbs ir-m t-u'i line, as plaintiff had done. < lain) for damages, but not tor Uu pi icc of tile -Imcp. KDITuI? 01-' "I.VTTEI •'! HN ' TIM ESC" CHHISTt 11 r ßt 11. Dec. 11. j All- h. M. Beading, editor of the j "Lytielieu Tint"'." is lesigning. lor p: >- : w . u . |oa.s-.iis. The resignation was in- , epted ami is to take effect in two or j three months’ time. FOCI? (M IDIS BUB NT. AUCKLAND. Dec. 10. A fire destroyed four two-storey wooden -hops in Mourn Eden Load, neon,,led hv .lolly and Co., second-hand dealers and land agents: t invent, stationer and bookseller: Thompson. coni',, ctioneer; and Butlierford. ba-.t-maker. There are no details as to insurance. Nothing was -a\ed. LAVING THE ODDS. AUCKLAND. Dee. Ub In tile Supreme Court. .Justice Bead upheld the decision of Mr Poynt.m. S.M.. in connection Ed wart! Wilton and imposing two months’ imprisonment for making a bet on a noise race. Counsel for appellant said his client was charged under Section 02 of the Gaming Act. and contended tha tSec-tton 5 ot the 102 ) Amending Act curtailed the original Act. His Honour over-ruled this saying the Amending Act had not altered the law in regard to laying tote odds. Jits Honour said hoikmaking was one of 'the greatest curses in New Zealand, being responsible for as much crime as liquor. He had no sympathy whatever virh Mich offenders,

A HORSE THIEF. AVJf.VKAT.A2NE, Dec. 11. William AA'iight, 35, single, was charged at tlie i’olic-e Court with converting the mare Saddle Bridge to his own use. and three other charges of theft front settlers. He pleaded guilty. and was sentenced to one month and twelve mouths’ reformative treatment. AVright was further charged that on December Ist. at Waimnna he did wound a mare, the property of Adam To AYhelu by means of a corresive ehemid-il substance. On the ajqilicaliou of tlie police the ease was adjourned for a week. COEKUIDGK BREAK'DOAYN REPAIRED. (II I! ISTt’H EIK IT. Dm. 11. The Lake Coleridge break-down, wliir-h iH-euiTed on all transmission lines was oven nine by this morning. The breaks are attributed, in all eases, to faulty insulators, and as a result of the rain falling after a month’s dry spell. The lain ceased about day-break, leaving tlie eoniiM-y still jla relied : but the fall was greatly ajijm-eiated and will do much good in the country. The fall in the cit.v was ~‘JS2. making a total fall for thirty days of ..280. The rainfall to date for the year is 20 inches as compared with 10 inches for the same date last veal'.