FROM "A CHAT WITH A CYCLING CORRESPONDENT."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10617, 12 March 1896, Page 3

FROM "A CHAT WITH A CYCLING CORRESPONDENT."

" Where are your other models ? " " Buried, my good friend, We have confined our efforfco to the handling of two machines—one for gentlemen and one for ladies. By reducing the tiumber of patterns we are able to give the highest value, as our contracts with ths manufacturers run up to nearly 500 cycles The whe«s)n we are offering are equal to machines at £25 to £30; you cannot get betters" " Hpw do you sell.so cheap?" tf By contracting for qnaotities and doing » hustling business. £23 10s was tho price of the ' Colonial Star,' but we now give far better valuo for £20."

Send for catalogne. All duplicate parts priced and illustrated. No more cottly repairs. AhamS Cycle Company, Manchester street, Christchuroh.

business of looking up agencies because he could not attend to it on account of the pain he suffered and from want of sleep, and ho decided to leave for the colony much earlier thaa be had previously intended, and without visiting Germany on business. Mr Tapper admitted that when at Paris he went about there and saw some of the sights, and before going there he had attended to such business as engaging his passage to the colony and directing his agent and his medical adviser to forward tbe necessary notices of his accident to the defendant company, and he admits that it w»3 never necessarj that he should keep to his bed. Dr Coughtrey saya that he saw Mr Tapper on October 18, and he was then suffering from nervous fright from injury, and was not in that healthy mental condition to conduct serious operations in business. The impression the evidence as a whole makes ou my mind is that the accident for a time wonld disable the plaintiff from following any portion of his business occupation, certainly for the ..time he waa absent from London under his doctor's orders: There is a strong presumption that he would not be suffering severe pain when he undertook to visit Pariß, aud had he suffered bo severely from insomnia as to be incapable of following any portion of hi« usual occupation, I certainly would have expected to hear of more. th»n one visit to his medical adviaer ou that account. My mind is not impressed with the belief that plaintiff was entirely disabled for the 16 weeks he claims for from following any portion whatever of his occupation in the sense that he could follow no part of it for the whole periid. I think, at any rate shortly after Mb return from Paris, he could have resumed his occupation, although probably ha would not have been so capable then a3 before the accident. Judgment for £18, with co3ta of court (225), witness (21s), professional costs 026j)."