The Tailor and his Customer.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 October 1891, Page 2

The Tailor and his Customer.

♦ ■ - A case which caused considerable amusement was heard in the Ashburton B. M. i Court last week. A local tailor of dimioutive itfttne awed

one of his customers, a gentleman considerably ojrev six feet high, for the cost of a bmf-pt clothes. The defendant alleged|that the clothes did ■. not fit, and declined to settle the claim. The Magistrate, taking as a precedent a somewhat similar case heard in the English Courts recently, t in which the Judge ordered some ladies' dresses to bs tried on in Court, had the clothes r ut on the defendant for inspection. The efforts of the defendant to support his cenbention that the clothes were too small, by drawing himself up to his lull height, and the frantic attempts of the plaintiff to establish his case by making refractory buttons meet, were very entertaining to the spectators. The Magistrate held, after a careful in- ' spection of the defendant and his attire, that the garments were either too small or the man was too large, but he advised the parties concerned to try and settle the matter out of Court,