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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1665, 27 January 1904, Page 2

On application by counsel for . the defendant -in an action brought in -the Magistrates. Odurt-, Stratford. ; by Rofot. Spence, solicitor, Stratford, . against Bessie Fleming, hotelkeeper, same place, the Chief Justice has mad> .an order callin'*, upon the plaintiff and Robert Loftus Stanford./S.M A to shew;, cause wliy the cadef shouldAnot -be removed into : the .vSup-fenie - Court. du: in.'; .the alternative;' why a wr.it of prohibition should Mot 'issue to-prevent the Stipim- ■ diiavv Magistrate from further proceeding in the action upon the .■judgment. in°plaintiffs favour, on the ground that he was incompetent .011 account of hiasi-or suspicion; of bias in-the plaintiff’s favour, v and, . further, that he was a materiaiU and; necessary witness for. the defendant: :and ought to have been exCause is rtq aired to be shown at the first sitting/in Banco of the Court in New Plymouth after-March Ist next./' ' 2.:: V A man was arrested at Shannon on Saturday on a charge of-being concerned in the recent house-breaking episodes at Palmerston North.