INVERCARGILL ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 2

INVERCARGILL ITEMS

[Ser.ciu, to the Star.] November 26. A ease of hard denial came before Mr G. Crurcksha.uk, S.M., at the Magistrates Court yesterday, when J. IV. Watson (i tailor) sued John Raisk (a fkherman) for css, the amount owing on a suit of clothes which defendant had purchased. Defendant said that he had paid the. amount on a Sunday at the wharf, but Mr Watson had not given a- receipt. Plaintiff (indignantly): “It is a terrible thing that a man like you should give utterance to a story like that. It is the first 1 have heard of it.” Evidence was given by Edward Raish (defendant’s brother) to the same effect. Plaintiff: “Do you mean to say that that took place?’’ Witness replied in the affirmative.'- Plaintiff (disgustedly): '‘Then I have no questions to ask you.' 1 The magistrate was satisfied that the payment had not been made, and found against defendant for the amount claimed (255), with costs, adding, in conclusion, that it’was a stupid thing to pay on Sundays in anv case. The boy scout movement lias caught on greatly in Invercargill, and four corps are m fml working order—Kangaroo, Eagle Y.M.C.A., and All Saints’. They are getting to work with great zest, and the principal feature is the attack and defence of the town.