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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 538, 10 August 1866, Page 2

Yesterday in the Eesident Magistrate's Court, James Colyer was fined £5 and costs 5s 6d, for having a foul chimney which caught fire on Sunday last. The defendant pleaded that he had had his chimney swept a i/ionth previously, and produced the sweeps' receipt for the amount paid for the work. The Magistrate would not however accept this as an excuse, he said the chimney could not have been clean, or it would not have caught fire, and it was defendant's duty to »cc that it was clean — if the sweep had not done the work properly he was answerable for it, but as between the public and the defendant, no question could arise as to liability. It was one of those cases in which he (the E. M.) thought the full penalty should be indicted, and he had always done so. The defendant was fined £5 and costs 5s 6d. We should imagine after this caution that people will be a little more careful not only in employing the sweep -at proper times, but in seeing that he does his work in a proper manner. A number of the members of tlio Invercargill Building and Land Society met on "Wednesday evening, Btli of August, in the Provincial Hotel, Tay-street. The business was to present to Mr ; Eobert Auld, the Secretory to the Association,. a gold lever watch and key. Mr Win. Lockhart took the chair He, in opening the business of the evening, gave a short sketch of the working Society from its commencement. He said it had been a benefit to a good many, and that it was now brought to a very satisfactory close. He had much pleasure in now performing the pleasing task of the representation, considering th,at great praise was due to their late secretary for the satisfactory manner in which he had wound up the affairs, of the Society, and feeling that it was a just expression of the appreciation of the services he h»d rendered.