CIVIL CASES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 82, 5 October 1915, Page 8

CIVIL CASES

At the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., judgment was entered .for plaintiff by default in the following undefended civil cases. The Wellington Traders' Agency (assignees) and Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.'s N.Z. Drug Co., Ltd., v. J. E. Cockroft,*£2 5s 7d, costs 11s j Geo. Remington and Co. v. J. W. Thompson, £8 12s, costs £1 3s 6d; Fitzgerald and Pearce v. T. M'Gill, £1, costs 7s j WHendry v. C. Buckingham, £2 15s, costs 12s; Alfred James Bradey and Charles Bradey v. James Johnston, £16 6s 7d, costs £1 10s 6d; Charles Fulton Pattie v. T. Harris, £2 2s, costs 10s ; the Union Clothing Co., Ltd., v. Francis Joseph. Dalton, £4 4s, costs ss; the Bristol Piano Co., Ltd., v. C. Dunstan, £8 14s 2d, costs £1 3s 6d; Mrs. J. Glover v. Edward Foreman, £7 2s 6d,_costs 8s; G. H. Thorn-ton v. Hop Sing, £3 6s 4d, costs 10s JUDGMENT SUMMONS. James Stevenson, who did not appear, was ordered to pay £6 14s 5d to A. Raven on or. before 19th October next, * in default to undergo seven days' im- , prisonment in Wellington Gaol. A REHEARING RANTED. Defendants' application for rehearing was granted in the case of W. and G. Turnbull and Co. v. Barnes and Grant, the applicants to pay £2 2s costs. Judgment by default had been given for plaintiffs on 9th September for the sum of £48 19s 4d, and coste £3 10s 6d. The new hearing has been fixed for Thursday, 14th October.

The annual reunion of the First New Zealand Contingent, which left New Zealand for South Africa on 21st October, 1899, will be celebrated as usual this month. It is interesting to note that of the 214 men who comprised the • contingent some thirty are at present in the various Expeditionary Forces, either in France, Flanders, or Gallipoli, besides which some seventy have held or are now holding commissions. It is further interesting to note that the officer commanding the contingent was Major Robin, now Brigadier-General Robin, Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces. At a meeting of shearers held in Maeterton on . Saturday night (says the Wairarapa Age) it was reported that many shearers an the district were demanding 25s per 100 for shearing, and that in some cases this demand had been conceded. The award rate is 20s per hundred, but shearers feel that, owing to the increased cost of living, they should be paid more than this rate. An. extraordinary meeting of shearers will be held on Saturday next to consider the position. ' f A lecture will be delivered by Mr. H. R. Cumming before the members of the Wellington Accountant Students' Society on the subject of "Income Tax." In the carpenters' and joiners' award provision is made for a half-hour interval for the midday meal during the winter months, but after September the full hour must again be allowed. It is alleged that some builders are giving less than this time, and the executive of the Wellington Branches/of the Amalgamated Society ot Carpenters and Joiners has decided to institute proceedings against all exocloieri who disregard the aUiuag.