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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2580, 23 April 1887, Page 2

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o ' '.:. (UNITED PItESS ASSOCIATION,") . ■, Ghbistchuroii; April 21,,'. At the. Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr H. Keane, licensee of the Scotch Stores, was fined £2O. for supplying a drunken. man.. with liquor. Several other casesduvolving breaches of the Licensing Act were dismissed on..the ground set forfch in the case Newman v Jones, that anhotelkeeper is not responsible for the unlawful acts committed by his servants in his absence, if he.had previously ordered them not to do'Bu'ch acts. Dunedin, April 21. An inquest has been held on the body of Emily Palmer, a prisoner undersentence for vagrancy, It appears that she was suffering • from delirium tremens, arid died from syncope. Eight' thousand sheep on Mr J. 0. Bucldftnd's run, 213 a, Strath, Taieri, were distrained on for arrears of rent and sold for Is lOd per head. The sale is protested against on account of alleged irregularity. 1 Wangam, April 22. The Supreme Court has just been occupied all day in hearing a claim brought by the widow of the late John W. Bulk against tho New Zealand Accident Company for £IOOO on a policy'taken out by him. . The Company defended the action en several ground: First, that there was no contract between the parties, the interim receipt not being binding; second, that the deceased was not uniformly ternperate, that he was under' the influence of drink at the time of the accident, and that" he was laboring under a physical infirmity. The case was heard before a specialjury, who retired at 9.80, returning at 10.5 with a verdict for plaintiff,