CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4375, 11 January 1883, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH.

5 ■ . '...-, Yesterday. : . ' .The District Court to-day;;disposed of a claim for £200 brought by Mr W. E: - Toomer against the Drainage-Board" for depreciation of. his property by the noise and vibration at the Sewerage pumping station. Plaintiff was non-suited without costs." *"'■/.,. " ' '' A- publican 1 of Lytteitbn was fined £5 to day tor supplying a. man with liquor agaiiat rwhom \a , prohibition; order had been issued; dekpitextile fact that the man r said he,had sneaked in on the quiet in the L absence of the landlord in hopes of getting a drink. * Tne landlord had repeatedly refused to supply him, but in this instance the barman was a stranger, who had only been in the^lace fpr» fevr weeks, and did not know' the I'man by sight. Defendant pleaded hard that it was impossible for him to guard against such contingencies, ' and the' man 1 to whom, the liquor wag supplied ongHt to be punished. The E. M. said it was a hard 'case, but the law made r.sjaa provision for that. It was the first : "cise of the kind that had come before the Bench, and the defendant would be fined in the amount named and' costs.