A BUILDING DISPUTE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2319, 25 March 1914, Page 2

A BUILDING DISPUTE.

A dispute on a building contract engaged the attention of Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., to-day, when Wilson Burne claimed £50 odd from E. Christensen, of Oroua Downs, the balance due on a contract to build a threeroomed cottage. Defendant alleged that the contract had not been carried out in workmanlike manner and counter-claimed £50 as damages foi& non-completion of contract according to 'specifications. Evidence was given by Burne and Frank Moore and D. Entwisle on his behalf, whilst Christensen gave evidence in support of the counter-claim, and Ed. Needhaui, Wm. Street and Mrs Annie Webb gave evidence on his behalf. His Worship intimated that he would, personally inspect the building and' deliver j judgment next Court day-.

Mr.Hodgkinson, the English representative of tbe Swift Company (Chicago Meat Packers), who has been visiting Australia, is now touring New Zealand. Mr Vernon C. Redwood, a wellknown Queensland politician, has gone to Milan to study for grand opera. Mr Redwood isa cousin of Archbishop Wellington, and is now 36 yea re *of age. Old residents oi Hawke's Bay will regret to learn of the death of Mr William Crighton, late of Messrs Crighton and Lubbock, who were sheepfarniiug at Rissington for many years, and who sold out about teii years ago. Mr Crighton, who retired from business altogether, has been living iv New South Wales and Queensland ever since. In the Manchester County Court, Judge Meller refused to hear the evidence of a doctor who 'attended a workman as a private patient, but who had been called as a witness by the employers, Irom whom the man Mas claiming compensation. Tho judge said thai, it was necessary tha( everything that passed between a doctor and hi. patient should remain solemnly secret unless in some great criminal trial, when tbe doctor was bound to divu!g H what he knew.

Some creditors in the southern portion of Taranaki arc just now anxious concerning the whereabouts of a dairy farmer, on whose transactions they require more light ( s;| ,Vs Saturday's Hawera Star). He was the owner of a leasehold, and milked quite a fair-sized herd of cows. Ho installed milking machines and various farm instruments, none of which, ho paid for, but secured Joans on them protected under bill of sale. 1.1 „ recently sold his interest in his lease together with stock and implements, as a going concern, for Cl-IUO, £300 deposit, being paid. Thero is a mortgage of £750 register, ed against the lease, so that tho credior's was only a possible interest in £350, and tli c purchaser, ascertaining the complications, now refuses to complete. Tho farmer, in the nieantinw. has disappeared.