RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 173, 16 November 1880, Page 4

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT.

!L\vkt.opk, Tnrkspw, Nov. 11. (Before J. Allen, Ivap, UAL) An application was made on behalf of Messrs Mel fowl'll by Mr Mo Nab, under tlio Lodgers Protection Act for protection. The following evidence was taken : Isabella Bruce : i am a Licensed Victualler, occupying the All Nations Hotel, There was a copy of the agreement produced between soli and \\ ynaud .boors. 1 occupy the whole of the premises, stables and hall attached (in which .McDowell s goods now are), 1 agreed, to let Mr Rankin, (manager for-McDowell, have the hall at LI per week provided he hoarded in the hotel. A distress is in my place. I have no claim on these goods liehl by Mr Rankin, l make no charge for the hull. Francis McDowell : 1 am a draper in charge of Blenheim branch of McDowell liros., J. sent Mr l.lanlvin with corcai ll goods to Havelock, in charge of Mr Pankin, the goods arc the same that have been seized. James Rankin : 1 am in the employ of McDowells. It is abouttwo vveekssineceamo Imre. Airs Bruce agreed to let me have the use of the hall, where the goods are, by my paying LI per week as a boarder in her hotel, all the facts stated in the declaration are true, have paid the bailifl in possession L‘J that was owing. The occupancy commencing oji MSIh Oct. I have paid to date llth Nov., alul have a lawful right to the good seized by bailill. (1. A. Fmpsou proved the signature of Wynand Boers. 'l’lie application was granted, Mr Rankin being a lodger who paid the costs levied by the court. (i. Crichton agreed to give delivery of goods.

Lawyers have risen in arms at Ashburton. There is an internecine war. They are no longer ‘ learned friends.’ They decline to treat any umpudilicd lawyer as a learned friend of their. They even oiler a reward of L‘2o for information which will lead to the conviction of any person accused of a breach of the Law Practitioners Act. Lawyers are trade unionists, and know how to strike. The Chicago Trilnnn' states that an awful ease of the consequences of refusing a young man’s honorable love is reported on the West side. A really nice young man fell in love with a handsome girl, the only daughter of a handsome and well-preserved widow of DS, and oliercd her marriage. She ridiculed him because he was and said he was old enough to he her father, and so on, and with her taunts, goaded him to such a pitcli nt frenzy, that he swore he would lie fearfully revenged. Accordingly lie proposed to and married the wretched girl’s mother. Now that wretched girl has to wear stout leather hoots two sizes too large for her, and go Id ! ed at !> ji.ui.. and eschew the theatre, chocolate canucks, ice (•ream, and in fact everything that makes life worth living for, her step-father's nom-

imd object being that wh n .'■lie grows up she may ho as splendid matured a woman as her mother, tin: compliment implied in this inducing the mother to.second him enthusiastically. \\ lien a young man conics round to see. that wretched girl, her step-father bounces him down the trout step, throws his hat after him, and tolls the wretched girl that th e young man is. not a lit companion for her, and that lie is as solicitous tor her til turn as lie would lie for that of his own child, and altogether, in the kindest manner possible, he make that wretched girl wish she were dead as many as a hundred times a day. Let all other beautiful girls who are often tempted to refuse matrimonial oilers to eligible young men be warned by her unhappy fate. Idle "Wrong Envelope.- A lady of rank had received the honor of an invitation to dinner from the Princess .Mary of 'Peek, for a day when she was engaged to dine with an old friend. She wrote two letters -one to tlio Princess in her sweetest manner, acknowledging tin: honor, Ac., Ac.; another to her triend, beginning, •Sneh a boro, dear! Pat .Mary lias invited, me to dinwr on ouv day, and of course ! must go.’ To bur horror, she learned by tile next post that her friend bail got the letter for the Princess in her envelope. Tide mischief was done, and she went prepared to throw herself at the feet of her royal hostess, when the Princess met her with open hands and smiling face as she said : • Fat Mary is very pleased to sec you, and hopes you won’t find her a bore.' Civilization is slid advancing, a; Hie following incident, related bv a Long Brunch correspondent, proves : The pretty daughter of the Philadelphia broker went into a barber-shop to have her hair banged. Such a proceeding, lie it understood, was not at all immodest, ior iadies t ret pi on l oven Hit! billiard and bowling rooms at the. seaside. After her jetty lucks had been clipped, a male friend took her place in the chair. 1 Let me shave you?’ she said. ‘ You don’t dare to,’ he replied. ‘ It’s you that don’t dare.’ I’d bet i do. ‘Bet what?’ ‘A kiss.’ ‘All right. If you’ll let me shave you I’ll finish with a kiss.’ The young • man laid himself back in the chair, and said. (!o ahead.’ The girl did not hesitate. She worked under the barber’s directions, and before a crowd of hilarious spectators. The luthering was easy enough, and the young man evidently liked it when she rubbed in tlm suds with her soft little hand, but wli: , u she came to i wielding the razor lie was subjected to a dreadful ordeal. The danger of a cut throat, was ru enough to appall the stout- j est heart, and added to tint was the pain of the pulling ami tearing by an unskillfuliy i bandied blade. Still lie escaped with a few • scratches, he got the kiss coyly hut sipiare- ! ly delivered on !iis lips.

An important oust! was hoard at the ' llosident Magistrate's Court, Auckland. Williamson v. Leers, a claim of l ,, _V> Ills, on account of a life insurance policy with the New Zealand I’rudential Assurance Com-! panv. I’hiiutiil’ was the husband of Matilda Williamson, and claimed, as administrator , of her estate, the amount of the assurance policy on her life. The defence; was that i she was in had health at the time of tilling up the; proposal, and had been eontinually ill for two and a-half years before her death. Dr. I’hilson deposed that she was sulluring ! from aneurism of the aorta, it was incurable, and it was impossible for a person suffering from it to be in good health. Dr. Wine stated also that at the date of the j poliey being elleeted, namely. .May, tS7D, the woman must have .been conscious of the nature of her disease.' Henry Mansell, formerly canvasser for defendant's company deposed that lie filled out the proposal for the policy on behalf of the deceased, and that she made answers to the printed plications contained in it, one of them being, “Are you in good health? Yes." Frederick Wright, trustee of the society, di posed that the policy would not have been issued bad [ it been known that the suH’ering of the j disease described by the doctors that day. j Judgment was given for the defendants, j with JL!10 Ca costs.