NEAR AND FAR

Evening Star, Issue 14526, 30 November 1910, Page 7

NEAR AND FAR

Dr M‘Arthur, SAL at Wellington, gave judgment yesterday in a ease in which Blouse Lumber, Ltd., of Wellington, sued C. J. Johan, contractor, for £66 for timber supplied to defendant, and as damages for fraudulent representations. The plaintiffs stated that defendant represented to them that ono Oscar Jorgensen had obtained a contract in his own name from one EiUsimmons for the erection of certain buildings at Marital, and that Oscar Jorgensen j required certain timber, amounting to some £65, for the erection of such building; that the plaintiffs delivered the goods to the defendant, but had not been paid by | Oscar Jorgensen, who had now become insolvent, and assigned his estate; that in truth and fact defendant, and not the said Oscar Jorgenson, entered into the before- . mentioned contract, and the timber was used in the completion of such contract by j the defendant, and that the defendant was | paid by Fitzsimmons the contract price for the'same. It appealed that Jorgenson owed pioney to the defendant, and plaintiffs claimed that their materials went to pay Jorgensen’s debt to the defendant. The magistrate said ho believed that Jorgensen and the defendant conspired to obtain materials from the plaintiff's by the j false representation that Jorgensen had j got the Muritai job, and that plaintiffs j supplied the materials believing in and relying on that misrepresentation. Judgment was entered for plaintiff's for the amount claimed, with costs. Security for appeal was fixed. Two schoolboys who indulged in a, prank at Island Bay a few dayn-ago found themI selves in trouble (says the Wellington I 'Dost'). Oil their way borne to lunch one i day thev gleeluliy lighted upon a pot ot I red paint, m a paddock, and with the inI vcnti,cncs.s characteristic of boys of nine 1 and ten years of age commenced to worx havoc with the appearance of sundry doors | and gateways in the district. _ Then they • 1 triumphantly carried their find to Die i 1 seats facing the parade, and plastered I several of the most frequented forms with (rich, thick daubs, and awaited results, t wo young ladies dressed in white suiiuner frocks came along to enjoy the prospect of I sea and sky, failed to notice the red ’ patches, and eat down. Ono was unfortunate enough to sit rigid- over the paint, and was horrified to find on arising that the snowv white of her frock was disfigured by ugly scarlet patches. The pair of mischievous urchins appeared before Mr ! AV. 0. Riddell, SAL, at the Juvenile Com t, j and received a salutary reprimand. They j were discharged on condition that the father of the elder boy, who appeared to have been the directing genius, should pay ZOs towards the cost of a new frock for the young lady. Ono of the most interesting features of the fortnightly show tff the Royal Haiticultural Society recently (says a London paper) was a new fruit, which had been ■nven the name of “Hailshamberry." This noveltv has been produced by Mr W. Kni'dit, of Haikham, from the raspberry and°tho loganberry, the latter being itself a hybrid. It is claimed for the nc\v fruit that it is as sweet as the finest raspberry, and entirely free from tho acidity of the loganberry. In appearance and color it resembles’ the raspberry, but differs from it in the way it grows, inasmuch as it spreads itself all over tho branches of the plant, A stead of being confined to ono cane. Its chief feature is that it can to grown out in tho open at this tinjc of the year, whereas tho raspberry season proper has long since gone by. Indignation was expressed at the District Council of Keynsham, near Bristol, at a letter from the Local Government Board declining to sanction the appointn«nt of j the relieving officer. Tho Council, although they had advertised for a married | man, appointed a bachelor, who was ohI jected to by a body of ratepayers on that account. The officer sought to mollify them by promising to get- married. Tho 1 Council decided to advertise again, omitj ting the words “ must bo married.”