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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 137, 10 June 1881, Page 2

An interesting football match will be played to-morrow afternoon Old Collegians v. All Comers. A large muster of All Comers is expected, and the Collegians will have a hard struggle to maintain their prestige of former years. A number of the town men will appear for the first time in the new uniform of the Club viz., Blue stockings, jersey, and cap, and white knickerbockers.

The Resident Magistrate was occupied yesterday afternoon in trying the case of Rose v. Patterson, in which the plaintiff sued for £13 16s, the value of certain bacon that had been delivered to the defendant by mistake. Ths sum of £9 was paid into Court. Mr Pitt appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Percy Adams for the defendant. Through some mistake on the part of the railway authorities the bacon was delivered to Mr Patterson instead of to Mr Alexander, and, indeed, the evidence pointed to a comedy of errors throughout. Eventually Mr ltose saved his bacon, obtaining judgment for £1 18s 6d, in addition to the amount paid into Court, with costs. Today and in future issues of the Mail there will be reading matter on the first as well as on the three other pages of the sheet. Sharp and Pickeking report the sale this day of 8 City debentures at par. Our correspondent writes from Motueka under date June B:— Judgment was given to-day in two cases heard on the 25th May in this Court. Moffatt, who used formerly to be wharfinger under Mr J. S. Cross, jun., sued Arthur William Parker, the present lessee of the wharf, for illegal detention of goods, he (Moffatt) having claimed them on & shipping note from Mr Cross, and also tendering wharfage and labor dues to the amount of 2s, as being under one ton in all, though consisting of various packages of different kinds. The Bench considered that the goods had been illegally detained, and ga,ye judgment for the plaintiff with costs.

The other case was Parker (wharfinger), r. Gilbert. This was a claim for Is 6d for wharfage, labor, and storage on a csse contain* ing a dozen empty flower pots. The defend' ant said that this case bad also been consigned to Moffatt, and that he (Gilbert) had paid U for freight and all charges. Judgment for defendant with cost a. If the wharfinger were entitled to charge ouch rates as be shows an inclination to, I think moßt persons would find some way of evading such an enormous tax.

The Preis of Tuesday says :— Mr Josiah Birch, a gentleman well known in Christchurch, Was found dead in his bed yesterday afternoon . The particulars, as obtained by the police are as follows :— Mrs Birch left her house on Saturday to pay a visit, but before going told the servant to prepare Mr Birch a cup of tea. The deceased at that time appeared to be in his usual state of health. On returning on Monday (yesterday) afternoon Mrs Birch found her husband ctead in his bed. Dr. Irving was Bent lor, but his services were tben of no avail. Besidfe the bed was found a bottle of laudanum, which had been in the house for some time, and had been used for toothache. Mr George Owen and Dr Nedwill, Mr Birch's medical adviser, saw that gentleman on Saturday, when be complained of being unwell, fend to Dr. Nedwill he said he " did not know What was the matter with him.'* An iDqueit was held when a verdict of death from fatty degeneration of tbe heart was returned The Dunedin Herald has the following apposite and outspoken remarks in regard to the appointment of the new Minister : — " For our own part we should not care a straw though the whole Ministry came from the same parish, provided they ware the most capable men available for conducting the public affairs. We frankly admit that it would be very difficult for the Premier to find a fit successor in Otago to Mr. Oliver> who was, take him for all in all, the best man for the post of Public Works we had to give ; and we hope he will not sacrifice the welfare of the colony to tbe wretched prejudice we have endeavored to expose. Mr. George M'Lean is the only member among the Government supporters south of the Waitaki who has the slightest pretension to such a difficult portfolio as that of Public Works ; but we fancy that the member for Waikouaiti has no ambition for what we call Ministerial honors. Some of the other names that have been mentioned are simply ridiculous. We have often adverted to the poor set of representatives returned by Otago— man jof them absolute nobodies ; and if we were wholly excluded from a direct ■hare" in the government of the colony, we should only be properly punished for our culpable carelessness in this most important respect."