MISUSE OF THE TELEPHONE.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 141, 25 November 1895, Page 3

MISUSE OF THE TELEPHONE.

Wellington, Nov. 24. A case of alleged misuse of the telephone occupied the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, in which Crabtree and Sons sued S. Luke and Co., Limited, for £4, as damages for having falsely represented to Charles Lomax that the plaintiffs were speaking to him through the telephone, and that the plaintiffs bad not in stock ola iron rails, when in fact the authorised I employes of the defendants were speaking'aud not plaintiffs, and plaintiffs had old iron rails in stock, whereby plaintiffs lost the benefit Of an order which Lomax j was about to give. Evidence was given I by three witnesses that on ringing up I Lake and Sons and asking if it was Crab - j tree and Sons (both firms are iron ' founders) tho answer came in the affirmative. The defence was a general denial, although it was admitted that the office boy, for a prank, had once, in reply to a query, “Is that Crabtree and SonsF” replied “ Yes.” Mr Martin, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs. His Worship ' said on the evidence he found that there i had not been any personal abuse of tho telephone by eithei of the Lukes, hut he held there had been a gross misuse of the instrument by some of their employees, though he was not prepared to say by whom.

a syllabic of exaggeration. How many of our readers will write and tell us what man this was F A thousand, no doubt. Alack*a-day ! however. No kings and . emperors alone are thus affictod. Great j hosts of ns travel the same road. We are j not usually gluttons as this royal gentle i man was, but people who eat sparingly often have the same malady. Commonly they inherit a tendency to it. On the level of this dreadful disease the rich and the poor, the great and the small, meet together. Speaking of an experience of her own, a woman says: “My hands became stiff and numb. I wa« so crippled that I could not cut a round of bread. A little later it attacked my legs and feet, the soles of the latter being very tender and sore. The pain was so severe that I often sat down and cried on account of my sufferings and helplessness. I used rubbing oils and embrocations, but got no relief. In this way I went on month after month, never expecting to be well ( again. I felt the first sign of illness in February, 1889. At first I had merely a bad taste in the mouth, no appetite, and was low, tired, and languid. Following this came the agonies of rheu inatism, as I have said. 1 owe my re> covery to a suggestion of my husband's. He advised me to try Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from W. Simpson’s, in North street. After taking it for a fortnight my hands got their right feeling, and I suffered no more from rheumatism nor from indigestion and dyspepsia, which I now understand to be the cause of rheumatism. Prom that time to this I have been in the best of health. (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North Street, Hornoastle, Lincolnshire, February Ist, 1893.” “In the year 1879.” writes another, “ rehumatism attacked me, one joint after another. The pains were all over me although the worst was in »ne knee. For two years I suffered with it—the doctor’s medicines doing no good. In 1881 I read ' inalittlebook that rheumatism wascaused j by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that the ( truejeure for it was Mother Seigel’s Syrup. This proved to be true, as after taking three bottles I knew no more of stomach disorder nor rehumatism. I have since recommended this wonderful remedy to hundreds of persons. (Signed) (Mrs) E, Scnofield, 10, West Hill, Southampton Street, Heading, Oct., 2Gth, 1892. ’ The great Emperor was driven to abdication by rheumatism and gout, caused by his ruined digestive powers. His outraged stomach filled him with poison from top to toe. Yet he never lost his appetite, which was all the worse for him. Not long afterwards he died, having asthma and gravel, with the other consequences of dyspepsia. But one needs not to be a gourmand to have dyspepsia, with its t trailing troubles. Any one of fifty causes | may provoke it. Watch out for the earliest symptoms and arrest them at once by using the syrup. It stops the mischief on the spot where it begins, and then purifies the blood. By the aid of common sense and Mother Seigel the Emperor might have stayed on his throne, might he not F Yes, but unluckily she wasn’t born in time to help him.