An Irish Breach of Promise Case.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3008, 20 September 1888, Page 3

An Irish Breach of Promise Case.

A breach of promise cusoat tlio Nawry Quarter session sliowa that Irish humour lias survived boycotting, plan of campaign, and all that sort of thing. The. plaintiff, described as a prepossessing young woman, .was courted for nine years by a farmer fifty-live years old. Slio said that nightly for nine yews lie had kissed her more than once, and that she had received eight offers of in his love letters. So fur was love-liko, hut in ither respects it was provoking. Ho took her into one shop to buy a wedding ring, but only purchased a watch key; and into another shop to buy a slmwl, but the price did not . suit him. She went to Church to be married, and waited in vain for threo lK® for her lover. She complained to Tim that his doubtful courtship kept her from all wakes, dances, and sports. How cruel that the young lady should be kept from wakos by the peculiar conduct of her lovor. The answor of the defendant was not chivalric. He stated that the girl perecuted him, kissed lum, and would jump on his knee; that sho courted him; that one night at eleven she waited : for him at a dark lane, and caught hold of him by the tails of his coat until ho nearly fainted. What aromantio scene? Bridget pulling at his. coat tails, which were made of too tough material to be pulled off, till Pat nearly fainted. However, the persecution did not kill him, for in February last he mamod another wonian., The verdict of tho jury is ■us perplexing as the evidence is Tumorous. They found for the plaintiff damages with £45. If they believed the defendant that lie did not court the plaintiff, but was cruelly persecuted courting him, they would, wo loQht suppose, have found for him, or only given nominal damages. If thoy believed tho plaintiff that sho was courted for nine years and then jilted, it is presuui able that they would haveawardedher substantial damages." Perhaps they thought that, anyhow, she was entitled to compensation for being bept from wakes for nine years, and gave her forty-five pounds—that is at the rate of five pounds a year . for the deprivation. The new Chemical Fire EngineThe new chemical engine ordered from Messrs Sliand Mason I Co., arrived at Lyttelton in the Norman McLeod recently. It is likely to prove a valuable adjunct to tho plant of the Christchurcli Volunteer Firo Brigade. It has been unloaded, and is expected to reach Christchurcli t&jay, but until accomodation has for it arrangements Improbably bo made to keep it in mte, The engine is known as the Pair-horse Babboclt machine of a Bimdar, pattern to those used extensively in tho United States. Though more complete, perhaps, than the one at present possessed by the Brigade, it is lighter, being without ladders, and is said to be easier * in moving about. Its completeness lies in its cylinders, of which there are two, and the apparatus for working them. While one cylinder is being charged, the other can be kept ■ at work, thus providing a chemical fluid for any length of time. Three or four men could work it with ease, and two could manage it at a pinch, This same ongino was tried in London in April last, The report of that trial states that it worked remarkably well, giving a continuous jet of threeeighths of an inoh in diameter, for ijnrteen minutes, According to its only one oylinder should Jmised, at a time, in order that it gay be'recharged while the other is emptying. ■ • '