THE COURTS-TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 7304, 31 August 1887, Page 3

THE COURTS-TO-DAY.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT,

(Before E. H. Carew, Esq., R.M.)

M. Meenan v. F. White.—Claim, Lip 2s, on a judgment summons. Mr Denniston appeared for plaintiff.—Defendant did not appear, and an order was made for him to pay the amount by September 3, in default twenty-one days' imprisonment. N. Barnett v. H. Downey.—Claim, L 9, for a watch sold.—Judgment was given for plaintiff by default. W. J. Newman v. M. Coughtrey.— Claim, L 4 3s 4d, for work done. Mr Wilkinson appsared for plaintiff, for whom judgment was given, with costs. B. Throp v. J. Neil.—Claim, L3l lis 6d, for damages to plaintiffs premises and for rent due, Mr Haggitt appeared for plaintiff ; Mr Fraser for defendant. [Left sitting.]

At a meeting of licensed victuallers of Melbourne, a resolution was passed in favor of limited Sunday trading, a reduction in the limit from ten to three miles for travellers, lodgers to be served at all hours, the hour of closing to be extended to midnight, repeal of the clause in the Licensing Act relating to bar doors being closed and locked, and that the purchaser as well as the seller outside of legitimate hours be punished. A New Plymouth contemporary says : "A case of considerable importance to Oddfellows has cropped up at one of the local lodges. Some time ago a member of the above fraternity was committed to a lunatic asylum, and he has recently been discharged as cured. The Public Trustee has, we believe, sent in a claim to the local lodge of Oddfellows for sick pay during the period the man was in the asylum. The lodge at first resented this claim, but has since, we believe, paid it under protest, as it is contended the Public Trustee had no legal right." The New Soith Wales Government propose introducing a Government Life Insurance Bill, on the model of the New Zealand measure. The Council of the Insurance Institute of New South Wales invited Mr H. H. Lusk, formerly of Auckland, to draft a Bill on the subject, and his draft has been published by the ' Insurance and Banking Record.'

Dr Leutaigne, aged twenty-five years, son of Sir John Leutaigne, baronet, shot himself with a revolver at Hunter's Hill, Sydney, on Saturday night, the 13th instant. He leaves a widow and one child. The evidence at the inquest showed that deceased was partially paralysed on the right side, the right foot being a " club " foot, and deceased was subject to nervous twitehings. He was always very kind iu attending the sick poor without payment. The jury returned a verdict of death from a pistol shot wound, inflicted by himself, but whether intentionally or accidentally there was no evidence to decide.

The terms of Mary Anderson's engagement to the Melbourne Triumvirate are not declared, but she is under a fifteen weeks' engagement and appears in Sydney in June of next year. She will be probably be supEor ted by Mr Forbes Robertson, who draws 80'a-week, and itis announced thatthewhole of the Lyceum properties and dresses will be brought on with her.

Only a question of time : Asking the hour,