BALCLUTHA DISTRICT NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20964, 1 March 1930, Page 20

BALCLUTHA DISTRICT NEWS.

(Feoh Ode Own Coheespondent.) BALCLUTHA, February 23, KAITANGATA COURT.

At, a sitting of the Kaitangata Court yesterday, before Mr H. J. Dixon, S JI., two men named William Good and Thomas M'Kinlay were charged with disorderly behaviour in a railway train when returning from the miners’ picnic at Outram. Constable Moore said the men were drunk, but nothing was known against them previously. Each of the defendants was convicted and fined £3 and costs. the civil case, John Gardner {Mr Kelly) v. Randall Carson, claim £1 13s sd, judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with costs (8s) Henry Little (Mr Kelly) proceeded against R. M'Millan on a judgment summons for £3 11s 6d, and after hearing evidence as to the debtor’s position, the magistrate refused to make an order. In the defended case, James Jarvie b !jf ch !L Kelly) v - J °bn Williamson (Mr Walter), a claim of £8 8s for the supply of butcher meat, the defendant claimed that he did not owe the amount, and that he had paid his acflbunt. His wife gave corroborative evidence. Plaintiff called J. C. Pennell, another butcher who gave evidence as to defendant’s deal-’ said WT m - j n 1925 - The magistrate said that Jarvie’s accounts were very well Kept, and he had no doubt that plaintiff’s version was the correct one. Judgment sr