Serving a Notice.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 168, 21 June 1883, Page 2

Serving a Notice.

AN AMUSING EPISODE.

The Palmer-Jones case is about beinorevived under a slightly different phase! The next, form m which it .will- come before the Court will be Grichton v.Jones In connectioa therewith it was found necessary.toserve a certain notice on a rodent of tfeilding, a rather consequential and self-important persons who has been more or leas prominfintly connected with the case all through. He was on the platform this forenoon en route for Foxton, when the opportunity was seized of serving him with the necessary notice. He becduie very indignant, threw the notice on the platform, and showed great nidi-nation. The more he frothed and fumed, the* more people enjoyed the scene. He was tendered the legal "conduct" money, for expenses; which he also refused to accept. -The incident now be* came interesting The document lay hu the platform; and people gaze'i timorously at the suspioioas o!obking0 !obking paper. Finally, the person : for whom if was intended having entered the cahia«r e another attempt" was made to induce him to accept service. It was indignantly thrown upon the floor of the carriage, people-being « Don't touch it," The" train moved away, with the gent and the document m the same carnage, and the service is considered to have been effected m- conformity with strictly legal requirements. The penalty for neglect to attend after being duly served is we believe £100, aud so 1C ls probable the wrathtui- gent will eventually cool down, acknowledge service,.and m due course present himself Jo give the required evidence.