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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9163, 5 June 1908, Page 8

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Press Association.^ Wellington, June 4. The ‘Supreme Court was occrinied to-day in hearing the civil case, Leigh v. Strand, The plaintiff, John M. Leigh, sheep farmer, of -tte Lower Hutt, according to the; statement of claim, instructed Wil- : iiam T. Strand, timber merchant, oi the Lower Hutt, to purchase for him | certain lands, comprising altogether 23 acres 1 rood 5 perches, at a -price ! not to exceed £293 per acre, and plaintiff agreed to pay defendant, for his services 25 per cent, of the profit plaintiff iniglit ruako on a resale. The purchase was arranged at £2OO per acre, and plaintiff paid £4624 for the properties, and also paid defendant £630 for his services.! Subsequently plaintiff discovered that defendant had got the properties from the vendors for £2960. and propriated the balance —£1664—t0 his own use. He therefore claimed the £1664, and the £630 paid to defendant for his services—a total of £2294. . ' The defence was that the defendant had bought the properties for, himself, and resold them to the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff understood this. Defendant said the payment of the £630 was in respect of another transaction. A. number of witnesses were examined. The case was not finished when the Court rose for the day. Joseph Zimmerman, Gustay Nauzaak and . Eugene Fallliasse —three German seafaring men—appeared on remand before Mr Riddell, S.M., this afternoon on a charge “that ou the 30th May, with intent _to do bodily barm to one Athol Zaui, they did actual bodily harm to the said Athol Zaui. ’ ’ Zani was found severely wounded on the deck of ‘-the Jessie Burns, a cargo steamer, unloading at the wharf, and had to be removed to the hosiptal. The hearing was adjourned.