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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3507, 10 May 1890, Page 2

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Gisboiine, May 9. A batch of hotel cases came before the R.M. Court. Tho information against Maurice Hogan, for supplying liquor to a drunken man was dismissed, . A man swore he was at defendant's hotel nearly all Sunday afternoon until ten at night, and was fearfully drunk. His wife corroborated. Two witnesses for the defence swore the man was not drunk. The same defendant was lined £2 and costs IDs for supplying liquor on Sunday to tho same man, not being a traveller. Richard Finlay, licensee of the Gisborne Hotel, was convicted of gamiug under tho Gaming and Lotteries Act, the .Magistrate holding that the par lour .of an hotel is not reserved exclusively for family use, but is a publij plaoe. He was fined Is and lis costs,

Dunedin, May 9. A creditor's meeting presenting unusual features was held to-day, Two young'women were tho debtors, and the Equitable Insurance Association was the only creditor, the. debts in each instant being for' calls due. The debtors held shares in the Company, whioh two years ago they sold and legally transferred, The Company deolinad the transfer, but neglected to apprise the transferrors of their decision, and now claimed the amount i of the calls in arrears, The debtors thereupon sought theprotection of the Bankruptcy Oourt, . The Art Gallery Committee have decided to purchase another picture, called" Preparing for Market," Hallenstein Bros.' New Zealand Clothing Factory is to be floated into a limited liability, company. Ohristchuroii, .May 9. The Canterbury branoh of the Railway Employe's Society decided to affiliate with the Trades and Labour Oounoil.

The Auckland Asylum- '• • :!..• ■ Auckland, May 9. Tli§ wmavliet Borough Council have pa"3§ed a resolution thanking the Charitable Aid Board, and particularly the representative of the Borough on the-Board-(Mr A. Kidd), for their action in regard to the asylum-patients, One of the six men discharged from the asylum (Samuel Taylor) has escaped from the Prison Gate Brigade Home, and he was employed in the city to-day as ii "sandwioh man." ilo cannot be rwrrested, yf »6 he is a flis-

!;:;'/:tostOverboard;"'' ' : '"" ' Odbistcuuboh, May 9. t At 11,80 p.m. on April 21st, during the passage of tho Lady f, Jooelyu to Lyttelton, an apprentice' " named tlenry Wingado was lost overboard in-Lat. 4G 28min South and Lon. 100 East. Ho foil from the , mizzen topsail yard, striking an iron | davit. The night was very dark, and the Ben high. The vessel was running 12 knots. She was brought < up, and a.liie buoy thrown oyer, but j it was impossible to lower a boat ( without risking other lives. ,

Claim for Share Money. ' Dunedin, Hay 9, The Eesident Magistrate to-day gave judgment for the plaintiff in a case in which a claim was for £SO paid to tho defendant in connection with the Bale of shares in the Golden Causeway Company at Nenthorn, it being alleged that the consideration failed. The facts were that the plaintiff paid £SO for 500 promoters shares, and on- ascertaining that the registry of tho Company had. not ' been effected, claimed to get hie .noney back. The defence was that the i plaintiff was not entitled to the'mbney, i but was entitled to r< portion of tho ! defendant's interest in tho mining ' property in the same proportion as 500 Bhares would have borne to the | full number of; shares the defendant j was to receive in the Company for.his ) share in the mining property.