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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7268, 22 July 1893, Page 4

At the Resident Magistrates Court, Wa;« mate, on Thursday last, before Major Keddell, BM, the following cases were heard. Patrick Bead summoned Peter Dooley for assault. From the evidence it appeared that the parties were playing cards, when Dooley accused Bead of cheating. Bead called Dooley liar, whereupon Dooley struck him across the mouth with the palm of his band. The case was dismissed. T. J. Smith v. Tpulett; claim £2 5s 4d, for work done. £1 8s was paid into court, and judgment was given for 9s 5d in addition to that sum, and court costs 11s, and a witness 6s, solicitor’s fee £1 Is. The Magistrate gave his decision in the previously heard case of Mann v. Broughton ; claim £5 14s, on a dishonoured promissory note. He now gave judgment for plaintiff for the amount of the note, £4 6s, disallowing 8s added for interest. Several cases were settled out of court. The Army and Navy Gazette thinks that the military burdens on the peoples of Burope are reaching the point whnn, in the language of the old fable, the ass must break down under the weight of its rider. It remonstrates with the Italian Government for the “ craze ” aboutbecoming a “ Sea Power.” And it says, “Ho one is simple enough to suppose that in the event of war occurring, with France and Russia'on one side, and the Triple Alliance on the other, the fleets of the latter Powers will have any option, except as to which harbour they chose to lie up in.” An excellent relish has been introduced under the title of Gawk’s Wobokstbeshibk SAUCE, which has a most agreeable flavour and claims the advantage of being sold at half he usual price of most other sauces—-[Advt..] The heaviest rain-storm ever experienced passed over Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana at the end of May. Large tracts of country in the states were flooded, and the losses sustained by the planters were enormous. In Bast Carroll, Moorehouse, and West Carroll parishes in Louisana, at least 10,000 people were rendered homeless and suffered terrible privations. With the exception of a few small elevations, the whole p£ the north-eastern part of the state was submerged.