COASTAL CASES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 5

COASTAL CASES.

RESERVED JUDGMENTS,

At tlie Magistrate's Court this afternoon Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., gaye judgment in the two cases, heard 'during liis recent' coastal tour.'. ' : '■ , .-' Tolaga. Bay School Committee v. Mjs/ Neil . Claim 30s, for damage by hoiSfo and buggy to gates enclosing schjfol grounds, Tolaga Bay. Judgment /for amount claimed, with costs 6s. / ■ .Connelly v.- Fadrlie. /Claim £92 is 3d for alleged breach of covenant, Judgment for £5, with costs. Ua giving judgment liis. Worship stated that it was most difficult to estimate to any .degree Of accuracy the amount of damage in consequence of the. breaking of the covenant, but in aU the circumstances he thoilght JDS would be a reasonable amount to. afford. '

"Some members think I am agnostic to the motion/ but I'm not."— Tit-bit froth a municipal speech in the South. ,'?

The British Medical Journal showed from the unchallenged statistics of the Temperance and General Life Assurahpe Society in regard to 19,730 persons, jVhd aggregated over 900,000 years' of life, tliat total abstainers averaged more than 25 per cent.- years'- of life in excess of the non-abstainers, whose sobriety ' had/been assured at the" time their application/for life assurance "was accepted^ In. 1904, 14,718 British medi«aal men, presented^ to the Government, through Lard Liverpool, an appeal for public school teaching' - aft to the injurious effects of the most- moderate indulgence in strong; drink, while State and municipal officials in Frante, alarmed at the decrease of her population, partly through wine and' spirit drinking, placarded the walls of cities with immense posters, by which they nought to ■ arouse the public conscieor.ee, and arrest national degradation arid de« cay.*