TELEGRAMS. PALMERSTON ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 80, 3 April 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. PALMERSTON ITEMS.

AN IMPECUNIOUS BRIDEGROOM. THE TRAM SCHEME. [BT TBLJEaBAVH — SPECIAL TO 'X'HB POST.] PALMERSTON N., This Day. There were some unusual features in a case heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, in which H. Lows, of Dannevirka. farmer, sued his stepeon-ic-law, Alfred Smith, for £22 6s, money lent by plaintiff to, defendant. Plaintiff gave evidence that his wife had informed him in June last that defendant wished to marry her daughter, but had no money to get married with. Witness had replied that he would not see the suitor "stuck " for a pound or two, and defendant had subsequently asked him for a loan on which he agreed to pay interest. Plaintiff lent defendant £10, and his step-daughtsr another £10 to purchase necessary articles. PlaintiG ako paid a doctor's fee for defendant, and for photographic groups of the wedding. Defendant and his wife gave evidence that the money was a wedding gift and not a loan. Mr. Thomson. S.M., held that the £10 to the prospective bride might have been a girt, but that the £10 to the happy but impecunious bridegroom waß merely a loan. He accordmgly gave judgment for plaintiff for £11 18b 6d, with costs. The Borough Council at last night'c meeting resolved that a previous resolution to raise £69,000 for a. tramway service and electric lighting scheme bo rescinded, and that the tramway scheme, a« submitted by Mr. Black, at a cost of £60,000, be placed before the ratepayers. The question of allowing the Opera House to be used for sacred concerts for charitable purposes was discussed, and a motion in favour of rescinding the present resolution, granting its use for that purpose was lost, the example of Wellington being quoted in favour of sacred concerts. Councillor Haydon, who leaves for England on Saturday, was granted six months leave of absence, and councillors spoke in eulogy of Mr. Haydon's long •ervice to the town as a member of the council.