THE “TAMBOUR MAJOR ” COMPANY’S TROUBLES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6873, 10 March 1883, Page 5

THE “TAMBOUR MAJOR ” COMPANY’S TROUBLES.

[Pm Paws Association.] DUNEDIN, March 9. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Louis Tutsohka, conductor of the Tambour Major Company, ened Howard Vernon, the leasee and director, for £25 salary. The defence was that the Company, since Mr M'Callum’s insolvency, had been carried on m a commonwealth i and that as business bad not been good, the members could not be paid fall salaries. Plaintiff swore there was a special r ament so far as he was concerned, but wm denied by Vernon. The Magistrate, in nonsuiting plaintiff, said it was clear from the evidence that defendant bad to pay the salaries only out of the earnings of the Company, and there was no evidence to show that the earnings were sufficiently large. Defendant’s solicitor then asked for compensation in consequence of hb client having been arrested on warrant and subjected to needless indignity. The warrant bad been issued because plaintiff ewore he believed defendant intended leaving the Colony on the previous day, and it was stated that Vernon had played hb part lost night under the eye of the Court bailiff. The B.M. agreed that there had been no justification for the indignity put upon Mr Vernon, and granted him £4 4i costs.