DUNEDIN ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12423, 12 February 1901, Page 3

DUNEDIN ITEMS.

[From Our Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, Feb. 11. 'Since the Ivaikorai train, starte* running from till© Octagon some four months agcy there have been several mtemtpttens from, various causes, and the company's troubles were increased! to-diiy by a verdict against it in the Supreme Court for £l3O damages. The action was, brought by Mrs Whale, ■wife of a. jo'ivrneymaini tailor, and mother of several children, and! the claim set out that, through the carelessness and. negligence of the company, and' by reason of 'the faulty,' imperfect, imskilful and improper construction and working of the tramway, the plaintiff, who was a- passenger in one of tlie company's oars on Nov. 1, was thrown ,with great force from the car, and received l serious and grave injuries, by,reason of which, she had been unable to attend to her business, and had incurred expense. .The -defence was that the plaintiff was not thrown from the car, but jumped from it, and'that if she sustained any injuries they were caused by her own careles«ie>s and! negligence.' St Clair has been for years a recognised; p'.aee of popular resort on Sunday •afternoons, <ind it has been the custom of city residents to go to the Hotel Metropole for a refresher. Two. well-known citizens figured in the Police- Court to-day in'- connection with"- a charge brought agi-iast the-landlord of the hotel for allowing liquor to be consumed.on his premises on the .afternoon of Jan. 20. It was. stated by the police that they had had the distance surveyed by the tramwav line from the St Clair Hotel, and had found that the three miles terminated near the Octagon, while (ho persons found drinking at the bar ' were residents of the south end of the city. Mr Graham,. S.M., said that as proper inquiries hact not been made at St Clair in the past as to what customers wero Lena, fide travellers', he had decided not to convict: At the same time, he advised the defendants to take: strict warning as to their conduct in the future.. The police had now taken the trouble to ascertain what was the boundary-line, and the licensee-would have to act accordingly. Mr J. C. Williamson has pencilled, dates for a five weeks' season at the Princess Theatre, beginning on August 1. It is rumoured that, Florodora, now running _ so successfully in Melbourne, is to'be the winter attraction. At the Police Court to-day Christopher James Harvey,; a. youth who. had cleared out from h;s horn.- in Caversbam, preferring to sleep out in the open, in Christchurch, was returned 1 to the care of his uncle.