AN UNSUCCESSFUL CLAIM.

Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 36

AN UNSUCCESSFUL CLAIM.

GREYAIOUTH, February 26.

At the Magistrate’s Court C. G. M‘Alpine and the M*Alpine Sawmilling Company of Mawheraiti claimed £lOOO from William Clayton, a farmer at Ahaura, for general damages in that the defendant’s servant, one Mundy, carelessly and negligently lit fires on the defendant’s property, which burned and destroyed certain bush lands, the property of the State, and spread to and destroyed 120 chains of plaintiff’s tramway line. After hearing numerous witnesses Air W. Aleldrum, S.AL, nonsuited the plaintiffs, ordering them to pay costs.

The blackberry season is now at the production stage, many taking the opportunity to obtain supplies for jam-making purposes (says the Grey River Argus). One day recently no fewer than 60 tins of berries from the Inangahua district were exported to Christchurch by the express.