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Evening Star, Issue 16611, 19 December 1917, Page 6

Reports from the West Coast state thai a number of iicenp&os have applied through the Court to lia-vo tho rcn'.s r-Jiyj.bie to their landlords reduced. It is. that curly in the new year some oM-tiino hostels on the Coast will be h.Mided back to their ov.-.ner&, tho tcmnts lacing una-blo to pay the rents. One- owner, who is paying a double-figure rent, lias .applied to tho Court to reduce his rent to [.Tactically nil, or compel tho hmdlord to tsko over tho Ftock and furniture;. Another tenant is v.-alkitiy right out ot one of the largest hotels, having Jost his time and taonsv.

An in ! .eroslin b - point was decided in Syd-' noj- on the 3rd inst. in an action heard *be£or the Chief Justice ifcir Win. Culkn) and a. jury of four, in wilioh Arthur J. Mather sued the Btuik of 2s* ow Zealand to recover the sum of £IOO. Counsel for plaintiff said that th-> caso was without precedent. Mather, having received a crossed cheque •for £IOO, forwarded it to the Bank of Ajw.lvlla.sia at Petersham, with niftructions that it be placed do Mis Mather's account. Subsequent inouity elicited the fact l.hat the cheque, had not, been received by the. Bank of Austra-laiui, but it had been presented at the defendant bank and paid across tho counter. As the cheque had been crossed by two somewhat Jight parallel hues rum ing transversely across the cheque, it was contended that the defendant bank should not have cashed it. The defence was that the cheque did not appear to r 'iavo been crossed, and as it wan duly endorsed it was paid a;> an open cheque without negligence on the part of the bank. Tho jury returned a verdict fur plaintiff for the amount claimed. In KOLA-NIP you get a stimulant for the tired, a refreshment for the hot, a quencher for the thirsty. A tablespoon fir in aerated water makes a cooling, nonalcoholic drink. Hotels and stores. — lA.dvt.l