CIVIL CASES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 5

CIVIL CASES

Judgment for plaintiff by default was given by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the following, undefended civil cases yesterday: War Relief Association of Wellington v. C. M'Dougall, £4, costs £1 4s 6d; E. Eeynolds and Co., Ltd., v. L. Scoullar, £69 5s ffd, costs £4 14s 6d; Kempthorne Prosser and Co.'s N.Z. Drug Co., Ltd., v. Miss E. Dumphy, £14 19s 3d, costs £2 14s; Barnet Glass Rubber Co., Ltd., v. 3?. H. Patterson, "£ 5 Bs, costs £1 12s 6d; Charles Robert Langdon v. Douglas Stephen Wilkins, £1, costs 9s Id; Wellington City Council v. Michael Herbert Gallavan, £2 18s 3d, costs £1 11s 6d; Distributing Agency, Ltd., v. J. M'Leod £55, costs £4,11s 6d; C. S. Dempster v N. Souper, £24, costs £4 Is Gd; R. A. Nicol v. J. Atkinson (separate estate), £2 15s 6d, costs £1 5s 6d; Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., v. H. B. Prince, £52 13s 6d, costs £4 12s1 Gd; N.Z. Rubber Products, Ltd. (in liquidation), v. Robert Angus Turner, £2, costs £1 17s 6cl; H. Cruickshank v. M. Collins, £2 ss, costs 8s; C. B. O'Donnell v. John Bailey, £7 17s 6d, costs £1 12s 6d; Public Trustee, administering estate of Martha Charlton, v. Elizabeth Sweeney (separate estate), £45, costs £4 3s 6d; Wellington City Council v. William Henry Maclurean Stevens, £12 los 4d, costs £2 18s; G. A. Bond and Co Ltd., v. J. Eiidd, £8 12s lid, costs £1 ; 10s 6d; Empire Mfg. Co., Ltd., v. H. H. ! Plummer, cost* only £1; Minimax, Ltd v. J. P. Donoghue, £8 15s, costs £1 12s 6d; Vacuum Oil. Co., Pty., Ltd, v. J. Kilkolly, £20 17s lid, coßts £4 Is 6d; Ford Sales and Service, Ltd., v. L. E ' £50 10s, costs £4 15s 6d; E. E. Moyes v. George Peterson, £45 8s 6d, costs £4 7s 6d; P. Hayman and Co. v. C. S. Chong, costs only £1 8s; P. H. Jauncey r. Joseph E. Ward, £1 17s, costs 12s; Marion Elizabeth Hurley v. David Harold Harvey, £23 7s 6d, costs £4 Is 6d; Miss C. Taylor v. Mrs.Audrie Cox (separate estate), £8 19s. costs £1 14s 6d; Miss Murray v. A. Hunt, £4 4s, costs £1 3s 6d; C. M. Banks, Ltd., v. Wellington Suburban Motor Bus Co., Ltd., £101 14s 3d, costs £2 11s; Toop and Neilson, Ltd, v. F. J. Atkinson, £3 13s Bd, costs £1 3s 6d; Ford Sales and Service, Ltd., v. Premier Garage, £18 0s lid, costs £2 14s; Mervyn Clayton v. L. W. Nairn, £2 12s 9d, costs £1 4s 6d; Barraclough and Avery v. M. Maher, £13* 13s, costs £2 16s. On a judgment summons, Michael O Leary was ordered to pay John Stevenson and Charles Hubert Hobbs £11 7s 6d by 29th June, in default seven days' imprisonment.

Mr. Luther, Burbank, who died at Santa Eoaa, California, at the age of 77, was known all over the world for the. variety and success of the experi-ments-he conducted.in the production of new fruits and flowers. Some of the new forms he originated were the thornless cactus, a stoneless.plum, and one with the flavour of a pear; a dahlia with the odour of a magnolia; a lily with the scent of a Parma violet; a white blackberry; blackberries without thorns; onions without odour; a black rose; a red sunflower; and a host of new varieties of plums, prunes, apples, pears, peaches, nuts, berries, flowers, and grasses. Mr. Burbank loved his work, and spent 14 hours a day at it even when 70.