CANTERBURY NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7416, 13 July 1895, Page 2

CANTERBURY NEWS.

[PKB PEKBS ASSOCIATION.] Chbisichdbch. This day. At the B.M. Court, Lonargan and Co., drapers, wese charged with giving a receipt for j6'2 4a without stamping tile same. Fur the defence it was stated th&t it was customary to pive unstamped notes of Bales, which were looked upon as bills of particulars rather than n.oaipts. They were given geneiully for the firm's purposes of accounting, and wtro not stamped. Accounts rendered when paid were stamped, and any customer on demand was supplied with a stamped receipt. Couosel for the prosecution said that soma firms ahvajs gave stamped receipts, and through non-o mplianco with tbe act by others were heavily handicapped. The authorities f<-ued that tha defendants had been following tho widespread custom, and iv all probability did not understand their liability. Pitied sa.and costs. Two hundred and thirty.six of the unemployed were engaged ytoterday dealing the snow and ice otf tho thoroughfares; 100 wore employed to-day on the same work. The body of the man Abraham, who has been missing from Oxford daring the last few days, was found in tho river Eyre. A young man named Wm W. D. i'et-io, Kowai Bush, who was out with others on the Mount Torlesee run extricatiug sheep whioh were snowed in, was lost in a snowslip }esterday, and!the searoh parties co fasr have been unsuccessful in finding the body. At tho Mngi-trate's Court this mo:niug tho publisher Press Company was charged with a breach of the burning and l.r.tterica •> ot by having pnblihhed in the Weekly Press an advertisement inviting poiHons to take shares iv sweepstakes and lotteries and suhemes for tho distribution of prizu money Mr Fisher, who defended, said tho Picss Company asked for a judicial decision upon the question as to whether a breach of the Act had been committed. Tbe Magistrate reserved his decision.