R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2834, 28 February 1888, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

MASTBRTON.-MONDAY.

(Before S. von Stunner, R.M.) Fred. Wright v John Beckman. Claim £6 16s 9d for money lent and refreshments. Mr Pownall for plaintiff. Order for amount and 31s costs. Dorset v Robert Lennie.—ola&Gl9 10s for board and lodging andTpds supplied. Mr Pownall for plaintiff, Mr Skipper for defendant. ' After evidence had been taken, judgment was given for £1 7s, with costs. Jgk SPORTING. Marton, February 28. The following are the nominations for the Marton races : Flying Handicap:—Treasure, Sawdust, Dodds, Waihora, Irish Molly, Our Pony, Hewa fiewa, Zodiac, Eere, Songster, Tommy, Martonian, Ngara, First Chance, Zig-Zag, Tairapanga, ' Eob Hoy, Revoke, Waimea and First. Hurdles: - Tengamus, Sawdust, Doctor, Defamer, Promotion, Clarice. York Farm Handicap:—Tengamus, Little Nell, Halswell, Arab, Waihora, Queenie, Defamer, Rere, Songster, Tommy, Martonian, Ngara, Silver Cloud, Promotion, TairapangiAnd Sincerity, W

The Greytown Bathing Fatality. At the inquest in connection with the Greytown drowning fatality, a verdict was returned that John Robert V Wintered accidentally came to his * death by drowning on Saturday, Feb. 25th, in a waterhole on Mr T. Kempton's property at Moroa, and that the jury have concluded that death was the resultof deceased being unable to swim, having slipped into a hole where the water was beyond his depth. The jury added a rider to the effect that caution boards should be placed by owners of property in the vicinity of deep stagnant waterholes, so that boys may be warned of the danger of bathing in such places.