[By Telegraph.]

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 130, 3 June 1889, Page 3

[By Telegraph.]

[united press association. I Ivai'ier, This Day. Tho Riverslea Estate at Hastings, late property of MrT. Tanner,,M.H..R., consisting of 2910 acres, was sold by auction to-day for £85,000.

An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Joseph Fowler, builder, convened for this afternoon, lapsed for want of a qnornm. The annual meeting of the Horowhenua Licensing Committee was hold at Otaki on Saturday. The Commissioners present were— Messrs. Kebbell (chairman), Simcox, Andrews, Small, and Bennett. Mr. John Bradley (late of tho White Swan Hotel, Wellington) applied for a new license for a honse in the township of Shannon. Mr. Devine appeared for the applicant. This was tho same house for which an application by Mr. M'Phorson as owner was refused at tho last annual meeting. Mr. Dovine pointed out at some length that a hotel was now necessary thero, and banded in a petition Binned by 164 persons to that effect. The license was granted. An application by Mr. James Duncan for a renewal of his license for the Telegraph Hotel, Otaki, was, aftor some consideration by the committeo, granted on tho condition that the place was put into repair by the end of Juno. Mr. E. N. Ward appeared for tho applicant. Mr. James Thomas (for whom Mr. Devino appeared) was granted a renewal of the liconse for his hotel at Otaki. A quarrel between a brother and a sister formed the subject of a civil action in the Supremo Conrt this morning. The case was ono in which Maria Long Bath, spinster, aought to recover *£200 damages from her brother, Charles Bath, a storekeeper, at Karori, for an assault alleged to have been committed upon her on the 9th of April last. The suit was hoard before the Chief Justice and a jury consisting of Messrs. A. Koys (foreman), J. Betts, H. Kidman, and W. J. Harper, Mr. Jellicoe appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr. Skerrett for the defendant. Tho plaintiff was examined at some length. She deposed that she had been keeping house for her brother for sometime, but in consequence of his conduct with a woman who sometimes elopt on the premises sho had givon him notice. Hor brother asked her to stay on, but sho declined, and a dispute ensued as to the wages sho was entitled to. Ho then struck her on tho faco with his fist several times, and she was badly hurt. One of her teeth was knocked out, her face bruised, and her ears injured so much that she could not hear distinctly. She then went into Mm. Spiers' house and had her injuries attended to, and afterwards she went into town and stayed with another brother, at whoso .bouse she was attended by Dr. Cahill. liose Weaver deposod to hearing the plsvintiff soreaming, and Mrs. Spiors described tho appearance of the plaintiff after tho al leged assault. Charles Ho well was the only other witness examined for the plaintiff. He> stated on oath that while ho was at work in the defendant's bakehouse he heard th 9 defendant's adopted son call ont, " Don't hit her, dad." The defendant was in the witness-box for some time. He denied the allegations of his sister as to tho committal of an assault, explaining that in consequence of the aspersions which his sister had cast upon the character of a respectable married woman he had ordered her out of tho house, and that sho had tripped and fallen down the stairs, injuring her face and head on an upright. The defendant's adopted so-n (a boy ot about 14), Harry Owen Jones (an. employe" of defendant, and Alfred Usmar (a carrier) were also examined, their evidence tending to corroborate the statement of the defendant that no assault had been committed. Counsel having addressed the iury, hia Honour summed up. The jury retired at 1.30 o'olock, and tho Court adjourned for an hour. On resuming the jury brought in a verdict for £20. Judgment was entered up for that amonnt, with such costs as would bo given if the case had been heard in the Magistrate's Court. We have to call attention to an advertisement in this ifiBUO notifying that Mr. T. Smfth- has commei'cod a 'bus servioe to Is and Bay, and as one feature of the service will be regularity and punctuality, we have no doubt that it will be liberally taken advantage of by the pnblic. As will bo seen from -our advertising columns, the sale of spring drays, Tans, horses, and harness announced by Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonnld and j Co. to be held to-morrow., has been postponed till Friday next, and will be held at the stables of. I Mr. Somemlle, Abel Smi th-street. We are requested to ren lind our readers of tl io sale of Messrs. Wbittem and Nicholson's stock of drapery, 4c, which commi mces to-morrow, on t io premises lately occupied bjr Clark and Co., Lai nb-ton-quay. Messrs. Freeman Jackson and Co. have made an alteration in their advertisement, adxUng thereto a t urthor number oi' fat cattle. Mr. J. B. Kobbie publishes to-day a challenge , to any home-washing: machine in tho would to compote against the " Imperial."

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