PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3731, 9 February 1891, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

A facetious resident of our town makes the suggestion that it should be re-named. The wholesale swallowing up ot frontages and allotments gejier&Uy by the great land potentate suggests "Williamstown" as a suitable cognomen. I learn that Mr Williams yesterday purchased a portion of Mr Crewe's to\vn property. A new village settlement block will shortly bo opened for selection in the Tkaumea, beyond Gardner's Mill. There are, I believe, only about twenty sections to be offered and from thirty to fifty acres.

Dame Fortune has smiled again upon one of o,ur luokv townsmen. is disporting himself, and keeping his friends (of which latter commodity he now has plenty) quite lively on the strength of it. It will be rememtered that some little time since an action (which subsequently fell through) wad brought against the proprietor of the Pahiatua Star lor libel in inserting an article on "boiled bricks." The Star, retorted with an aptiqn for payment of its acjvopfising aooount long overdue. This case was heard on Friday and judgment was reserved until next Court day. The question upon which the issue depends is whether a suitor claiming under an " implied contract," the terms of which are varied by the parties at the time, of which the plaintiff alone gives evidence, but also brings evidence that the charge is a fair one, can recover against his debtor without proving his express contract. I can say from a layman's point of view, that if the plaintiff should be worsted in this action, no dealer would have- any security in selling an article, (the price of which he proves to be a reasonable one) that he can recover if he has to rely upon the law to do it for him.