IMPORTANT VOLUNTEER CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 73, 25 February 1884, Page 2

IMPORTANT VOLUNTEER CASE.

(united press association.) \ ■;-■-■ =■- Thames, Feb. 22.. ■ A singular volunteer jjcase wais heard m the .Resident Magistrate's Court . to xlay. Mr F. Millett, a i mei^ - ber of the late HfturukL-Kifle Volunteers, sued his captain (Captain Small) for a proportion of the' value of the company's assets, the latter amouuting to a total siim of £242; The captain m commanding had- struck the claimant and eighty others- from, the company's refusal ta '-be re sveovn ;unxJer the new regulations and non-attendance at parades, and had called a meeting of the coruiany- without appointing jiny place for assembling. ; Fourteen |>ef-. sons remained ! on the roll,, and jsix of these met at the specified time at the officer's residence, and detevwined vippn, a djvi^iqn of the assets among-these fpurteen; The magistrate decided ..that the cplaintifl' and the others had been illegally removed fioia ; tl^eLisjlf r£ud , wer?j_ tUeyetbyej still m.cn\beyts of the poiflp^nyi v lhe meeting of thMinem,:>fterra''MPa*''tf)so'illegal, -as, there; was. virtually no decisio'n ; '^of tl ; e company as to the disposition of the property, The Bench -decided that '■ the plaintiff could m ot at present recover, and lie tfas, therefore,- nonsuited, • ludige»tioD Atid Liver Oompiainte.-nFor these ; complaints Baxter's; . Oqnippund Quioiii.e Pill^ have proved a specific, act* ing powerfully on the liver and .mildly on the atoinncu, Sold everywhere, dr post free.froai, J. Biixter, Ohristchureo, .for 19 or' 44 t