VERY LATEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3530, 7 June 1890, Page 2

VERY LATEST.

[By Telegiiapii.J

(PER UNHED Pnß33 ASSOCIATION. Wrestling Matoh.

Dunedin, Friday. The wrestling match arranged between Ross, the American cbam. pion, nud Dunn, of New Zealand, takes place here early next month. SUPREME COURT, Wellington, Saturday. • In tl)o>Suprome Court, George Hill, on a charge of obtaining indecent literature for. distribution, was acquitted on technical grounds, that a similar charge against him bad already been heard and dismissed by a.magistrate, .-,.■'.

I. The chaigo of rape'against a nat ; will be taken on Monday, anu '!! is ex P o()ted ;.<° occupy two days, ; . AFeciitoPoint, '

Auckland, Saturday,

A nice legal point was raised yesterday,' in the trial of Edmund George, of carnally knowing a-girl under fourteen.. The defenoe '-.'was that lie had reasonable gioundsfor belieying her; over, fourteen, The jury returned a yerdiot pf "guilty," but the' Judge disagreed. The counsel for the defence urged that the Judge as Court, could overrule the jury'B verdict, under the proviso of last years Act in regard to a reasonable belief,'which says," If, in the opinion oftheppui't, or jury, prisoner, etc" Judge ifjonolly reserved the point for the Beii'rt of Appeal. :

phe New Plymouth MurderI New IxYsiotraa Saturday,' ■: More speed exhibited in examining .witness in the id urder case yesterday, and'ejeyen were gpb flpugli, -Major Brown is being examined now, as fo what paeaed between him and accused, when he was charged with ■ murder. The case is likely' 1 to occupy the Court several days, Mr Samuel is not prosß-questioning witnesses.

■£'■ Meeting of Creditors. [Meeting of oreditora of the estate of Samuel Hounslow, of Eketahuua,, contractor, held on Thursday, the ,6th day of May, 1800, at 6 p.m. present—The. Deputy .Assignee (Mr Cellar) in the chair, Messrs A Birnie, J. Gregory, Moeller, Jansen, ,G. Mottomley.,Mr Tosswill, solicitor, appeared for oertain oreditora, and

MvA,.W. Gould for the debtor. The debtoLwas examined at length. He stated I came to Pahialua three' or four years ago, shoiild say five years ago, started working where Crewe's bouse stands now, started working at Mangakao-four - years ago. No. 61 is tbe section, it belongs to my mother Mrs Hounslow, Masterton, I could not say .who drew the section, it was drawn in my mother's naino. I am certain I never had anything to.dowith the

drawing of the section. I do-not know that my name- was published with the drawing of the flection. I worked for my mother upon tho , section. I was working six weeks at ifiret, on thejjßecorid occasion I was working and living for t Helve I felled about 10 acres during the timo, that is all that is done; it is

grassed ; was i grassed by me, I bought the grass seed from Mr Gregory. The account presented is not an account of all I. had on the section, Ibid other jobs besides. I did not' represent to Mr Gregory that the section was mine, or would belong to me when'paid for... I never | did pay for it. my mother told me to go to live upon, it and she would give it to me when it' was paid for.

My mother agreed to band over the section whon paid for. It is a deferred payment section. My mother paid tho instalment to the Government. I got £4B far felling the 40 aores of hush; it was paid to me when I finished the bush, ■ ■ I got £Bl

the first. I built a cottage, it cost me ifiiO; my mother paid for it, sho sent the money up to me as well as

tho £4B. ■ I paid Mr Gregory for what' goods I had on the job, I paid him ready cash for them. I. could not say what amount of the account was.incurred, I had six men then for ruoriths.' \ I paid him for all the stores I had upon the place, From

then I went aud felled 25 acres for Mr Eeamy. 1 was afterwards sawing culverts for the road, I havi not paid Mr Gregory -'anything for three years, I have been working since taking contracts and incurred other debts. I'started working five yeurs ago at the end of next month. I did not do the whole of the whole of the work in six months: I commenced workiug the'next year about April.. I did uot finish the bush felling until 1884.1 felled ten acres,, then, and 20 acres the year before, I felled the ten aores the year before last, in June. I started building the cottage last April three years ago. I was only working upon it about three weeks, it was not finished. ■ I. am quite' sure I did, I never lnd anything to do with it, I have told plenty that the section belonged to me, I told Mr Gregory I believed the section was mine, during the time this account was ?oiug on I told him the section was mine. Mr Gregory asked me who it belonged to I said it was mine, I have tried to sell' the section, and was acting as agent, I did not say so, I said if anyone wanted the section I would sell, paper produced marked A is signed by me giving authority to sell to Mr Brgigs, I told him'the section belonged to my mother, I am quite certain I told him so, I hade job of fenoing for Mr Kibblewhite when I incured the acoo'unt with Mr Birme, there is no proper fence upon it, it is nearly ill down. I was working on the section

part of the time trying to grow potatoes, I was only working at odd times for three months.! was workingodo 1 days from time to time when 1 incurred Mr Birnie's debt, I could nol say whether 1 told Mr Birnie anything about it. I cannot recollect whethei

lie asked me any questions or not. I planted the potatoes where the cottage now stands upon this section, I did not work upon the section at all after planting the potatoes. I did not tell him I would plant potatoes upon ray mother's section. I started working upon Kibblewhite's contraot at same time' as planting potatoes, They may haye taken six weeks pegging and planting off and on. I was working in IbBB. I purchased some wire lor Kibblewhite's fence. I paid some money when I finished. 1 paid some money'since the wire was bought, the account I put in the' schedule as £20,1 paid £l3 2s 6d through Sinclair, I paid it after I had finished the fence and after I had bought the wire. I was not there, all the time. I finished the fence straight away.'. I commenced in September 1887, arid purchased the wire in 1888. I finished the,fence in February 1888, and bought the wire in either January or February ,in 1888, I am not exactly certain, as near as I can remember February; could not say if Mr Bimie charged the wire 8 months before, In November 1888,1 got some potatoes on a contract and consumed thorn, also some flour. I was falling bush for another party, and I felled eight acres for Mr Holdoway.' I was working with the Eketahuna Eoad Board, took half a mile from Dixon t p a sub-contractor, this occurred' in December. 1 have only just finished the job, I continued the contract, took, the job over from the Road Board in March last, I finished the whole of the 150 chains. I took it from the Eoad Board, the £7B in the hands of the Road B,oard js upon bDok contracts, the total of both contracts was £156. Dixon received MQ of the money, ■ He did not pay me any of the money, I did not receive any money from the Eoad Board before Dixon left it. I had one man with me in December; I paid him

when he went away, I paid him when I gui fte. first draw upon tjje contract, about February or Maroh. I shpujd say., Dixon left while we were working in/the |uali, I was paid £.BB. 1 did not .draw all the money, one man got £lB of it, Tbat is the.onlymoney.lhave got from the job. J then employed men, Smith'was, the .first .one. When I took the job over in March be was' the first mau, I then employed Tidswell in Apii I think I employed-him. : > I thei) ;einployed Burke the same ; day, also Carlisle at the end of April.:.. I engaged them

iii Ekatahuna. They starts on ! Monday; I should &y On tlie2oth of J April j.qyite cVrtwp'Oft 't]iat date,. I did not keep any.'hook of Wheij they started.,-. The men's name? are Tidswell, Burke, and Carlisle." They worked on. the job three weeks. I am quite certain' they 'only worked thje,? weeke,,and.left me .at.; the end of thauirnt' 'The'men 1 that are on the/;job yaripus fimes. I. have the talley down at the .Gamp,;.; Carlisle worked' from the 20th April until the job was finisHedi" ''A 'man named * Parker worked for me, he started' on a Tuesday, qq (be 2nd of May as far as

I. can reniem&rj I employe'd.'anbther man, be. left; I do.not, remember his n'ame.Tobro, I believe, Mr Innery. started in April,- before:-'the., three men. He started about the.2nd of April, I cannot say when Hume Btarted) two da'yß before Mr Innery. Prince- started work three weeks ago last Monday; he worked more than a. fortnight.. Tobhi: started , the sanio day as Parker. .My arrangement wi\s ■to pay them 80s per week wot or dry. Smith was by the hour; he' was not shares with me; he was shares; with- Carlson and Lewis. Smith started when I took the job orer from the Boaad. Carlson a'nd'mjself took the job in March. Smith started .working then at .Is per hour; he worked six weeks; he worked every day.we could.work. Heleftiin April. I told Mr Moeller Smith was in mates, He asked me if we were all in, and I said we were all in together in the job; we were not, Carlson, only was with ine. I thought it was not Mr Moeller's business to ask. Those statements are true I have sworn; I am' owing | Moellev and JonsbH £B4, \Mwt I told Mr Bottomly that Smith w&b mates with me; I told him at every meeting that Smith was mates, with me. I told a good many of my creditors I was only.to pay him Is ah hour;.that the other statements are untruo. I would gaiii no object in telling them so. I fought hard to pay my" debts. I said this to:'obtain credit; I did it as I could not have'.goods ' otherwise.,- 1 told Mr ■ Bottomley' I; intended ; to defend Smith's case last Saturday week; my object was in consequence of a small '.account between Smith- and me; he has ton hours more than he really worked; I told Bottomly then that Iwas'jn mates with Smith on that date, and that I intended to defend the case on that ground,'and that is quite true what I said. I had a conversation with Godfrey and Jensen afterwards, and said Smith was in mates with me; my credit was stopped when I - said so; Icannot'say what was the reason.' The real truth; is that I wanted Smith to go mates with me, and he would not say whether he would or not, but left and sued me for -wages. It was my understanding that he was in mates with me during the time he was working on the job, I gave him an order for £lO on the Koad Board when he left. I agreed with him that the amount was for what he earned upon the contract. He wanted me to pay him wages when I gave him the order. We had a great argument over it. My idea was that.be was working mates with me on this job; if I had not filed I would have' defended ■ the -case-at Eketahuna, on the grounds that I would have had to prove him a mate. My idea is that he was working mates with me. .Carlson was mates with me for three weeks.' I paid Smith 18s 4d, that was. the money, we got out of the last job. 1 have not paid Tidswell,' Prince, Parker, Carlisle, Hume, Tohin or Molnnery, Carlisle came into my employ on the '4oth of April. I engaged him myself in the street at Eketahuna. Engaged him on the Wednesday. He started work on the Monday. I owe him £2O at 80s per week, Molnnery did not start onthesarae day, he started a fortnight after Tidswell,, Molnnery has been working six weeks. The other 1 man has been working either two or i three weeks; Carlisle is the other man, bo far as I can recollect; he says ■ it is correct, although I cannot read it ; Mr Tosswill read the account to ■ him, and then he said it was correct. Hume, started, three weeks after Gregory. They both started on a Monday. Statement produced shows two months, They were three weeks after, but I kept ho dates, .Of i the accounts read, Carlisle's is not I correct, Hume's is correct, but Carlisle worked throe weeks longer than Hume. Carlisle started work on the 20th April, r and the account of Carlisle is wrong- if he started three weeks before .flume. Carlisle did notstart'when Carlson was there, Carlson.left a fortnight after the job waß taken over, sometime in March. He started three days after Carlson left, on a Wednesday, hut cannot remember the date,. Ho did not get any money when he went away, but about three days before leaving he got 18s 4d from tbeEketahuna Koad Board, We shared JS2 between three of us, Carson, Smith and myself, as I reokoued we were partners thea. I did not keep books, but have a sheet of paper showing the time, written by myself. ■ T entered it up every three weeks.. The chaps that are working on the job are. living at the Camp'. I could deliver the papers to Constable Rooks by six o'clook to.

morrow night.- None of the men

have been working on Jangney'i job. They commenced last Monday but only worked one day. Cannol say what they got for it, They wen waiting for the job to be passed. J worked four days on Tangney's job, which I have not been paid for. ] felled eight trees, and was to work a! 22saohain, Wageßare due to nieaboul 80s.' I was waiting for the Engineer to come in. I remember Mr Bot-

tomly, asl went up and saw'him working. Tobin and Parker were

working about three weeks ago upon the contract of 'langnoy's, Parker worked one day and Tobin about 0 Hours,' I had a talk with Tangney about the contract. I took 100 chains from Tangney at 12s and 18s per chain, but.l never touched it, I told Bottomley I was to'finish the contract myself. The last time he was in I told him I had finished

(he job. I could not say I would do it myself, as J cannot turn off big logs myself. I 'understood Smith wna working partners with me. I remember speaking to Bottqmley at the Ipt sitting ■of \'tbe Bqard. j arranged with him to bring ahprse' down as I expected to give him some money.'

So Mr Birnie: I stated I was going to work upon my farm. I was anxious, to ,Eee the property at ■ Tq Mr Bpftqmlpy | Waj offered £2soforthoproperty. Tewfy ltwas mine. The oook summoned Carlson. I told you about three weeks ago that the job would be. finished in three days.' I had;-,a.10t of extra work- I reckoned when I finished that the work was done, but I had a lot of other work. After Hogg left me we were a weok and did nothing, .; To John Gregory | I said I wb'iild pee jhe~:property, I do not what I said abput'th? ij rempmber you aßkin? ,me what \' would take for it, I thought you wanted to buy it with the object o? paying off tlie aooount. ,; .