DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3472, 10 February 1880, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday

A coroner's inquest on the bodies of Attiwell and Amelia Emma Hayes was held to day. The evidence was corroborative of circumstances previously given, and the verdict was that deceased had killed his wife and then committed suicide while in a fit of temporary insanity.

A case of interest to new arrivals and others in search of employment was heard this morning at the R.M. Court. It was William Laughlan v. Armstrong and Fattinson, damages £10, for false representation. The defendants are labor agents, and plaintiff's evidence was that in January he applied to them for a situation when defendant gave him a sealed letter addressed to one Millis, storekeeper near Gore. Witness asked to see the letter, but they said it was private, but that it was sending him to a billet at 30s a week in a store. Witness went to Gore, but when he went he found Millis was not there, his store being shut up and the business sold off. The people at Gore told him. that Millis did not require a man at all, that the place was shut, that seven or eight people had already been sent down from Dunedia by the defendants on a similar errand. Witness on arriving at Gore had to walk 20 miles to Millis' place and back again, he had paid 33a for railway fare, and had been put to an expense for living, and had lost a fortnight of his time, during which he might have got a billet elsewhere.

The defendants denied the plaintiff's story, stating that tbey had sent the plaintiff to Millis because the latter had shortly before instructed them to send eighteen men to his place to work on a station! The U.M., however, considered that plaintiff's case was proved, and that defendant did make false representations. He assessed damages at £5.