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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1774, 1 August 1890, Page 2

At the Magistrate's Court, Queenstown, on Tuesday two civil cases were disposed of by Messrs C. E. Gudgeon and F. W. F. Geisow, J.P.'s. The first was W. C. Donne v. J. Shore—claim for £3 7s lid, balance of account for meat. Mr Turton appeared for plaintiff. Defendant, in person, pleaded not indebted for the greater portion of amount, which he deposed was obtained for his mother and brother. After the evidence was taken of plaintiff ami J. T. Mayne, judgment was given for amount claimed with costs £1 0s 6d. P. Butler v. T. Shore —Claim for £2 8s for goods. Defendant pleaded indebted, and judgment was given accordingly with costs 16s 6d.

The first number of Jvxflce, a neatly got up journal published at Auckland, has just been received. It lias been started in the interest of " the toilers," and is a staunch advocate of land nationalisation principles of Henry George. Mr John Stone, of Messrs Stone, Son, and Co., had the honor, by last 'Frisco mail, of receiving an autograph acknowledgment of a copy of his directory sent to the Right Hon. W. E. (iladstone, who wrote :—" Thank you for your obliging gift. Certainly the directory is a most impressive as well as conclusive proof of great and rapid progress at the antipodes.—l remain, yours very faithfully, W. PI Gladstone, June 3, 1590."

The Queenstown Debating Society held their usual meeting last Friday evening, at which the attendance fairly eclipsed the previous ones. The first item on the programme was criticism on " Quaint sayings and their origin,'' a very interesting and amusing study contributed by the Rev. Mr Burrows at the previous meeting. The Rev. Mr Ross read a paper on " The Amenities of Queenstown," which was enthusiastically received. He dealt with all the points of interest in and around Queenstown, suggesting improvements as he went along. This paper should certainly receive the consideration it deserves, viz., to meet with some practical recognition at the hands of our City Fathers in the shape of carrying out some of the practical ideas contained therein. The debaters varied their business by musical selections of which Misses Wing and Reid performed a duet. A song by Mr Wilmot and a quartette by four members of t"..c Band, Messrs A. and C. Fraser, A. Anderson, and I'. Stenhouse on their new instruments. This evening Messrs D Boyd and J. Fraser intend producing the result of their joint efforts on the great national problem of tin- present century, viz., "The Labor Question ; or, Trades Unions, their advantages and disadvantages." Messrs Reid and Gray publish in their business announcement another testimonial as to the merits of their digging plough. Messrs Ninnno and Blair, the well-known Dunedin nurserymen, who secured 22 first-class awards at the recent Exhibition, publish a business announcement elsewhere. The local agent is Mr J. v. d. Walde.

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