OLD PEOPLE'S HOME.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13432, 25 March 1907, Page 2

OLD PEOPLE'S HOME.

CHAiIGE OF ASSAULT.

At the Court this afternoon the case I Turner ,v." Faroir was called on for hearing before.kr, RiddeH, S.M. The ptaintinv Alexander. Griffin Turner, is an inmate of the Old People's Home, and he claims for £50 damages from Arthur Edwin Farrarj manager of the Home, for an alleged' assault on the 18th August last. Mr Hutchen appeared on behalf of plaintiff and Mr Quilliam on behalf of the defendant. Mr Quilliam asked for an adjournment for five weeks, on the ground that his principal witness, a medical gentleman, was away from town, and would not return for about five weeks. Mr' Hutchen said he was prepared to agree to an adjournment but not for fire weeks. He said that when the summons was issued the defendant was away on leave, but he had now returned,, and beei reinstated in his old position at the Old People's Home. Under these circuth'stq ! nee&, he was over the plaintiff's witnesses, and it was, common knowledge, said Mr Hutchen, that the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board espoused' -*thie cause of the defendant, and one person who was supposed to be a witness on behalf of his client had recently been dismissed from their employment. This looked rather bad, although it might ,only be a coincidence. He (Mr Hutchen) had also received information that an official of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Jiad warned an assistant against giving evidence on behalf of the plaintiff. He suggested the evidence of the doctor could be taken elsewhere, and would agree to an adjournment for three weeks. Mr Quilliam said if the adjournment was not until the doctor returned it was of no use at all. The magistrate eventually, granted an adjournment for five weeks,

Captain Edwin wired at 1.39 p.m. : — Moderate to strong easterly winds. Glass rise slowly* tides moderate, sea moderate, probably cold night. The tallest building in New Zealand is the New Zealand Express Company's new warehouse in Christchurch, which is 123 ft. from the footpath to the top of the parapet. : A look-out on the root is 135 ft. from the street and commands a fine view of the city and its surroundings. It has seven floors. Parcels of gold from Mitimiti, Hokianga district, on assay were found to contain gold and silver at the rate of i £1 Is 7d per ton. 1 At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr Iliddell, S.M., the following cases went by default : — School Commissioners of Taranaki District (Mr Quilliam) v. Henry Condon, £10 Is 4d, costs, £1 16s 6d ;,A. H. Sykes (Mr Quilliam) v. J. 0. Eastwood, £1 7s 3d, costs £1 2s Od ; Standish and Kerr v. William Armstrong, £1 Is Od, costs 10s ; ( Wilson and Nolan (Messrs Roy and Wilson) v. Mrs A. E. Cornwall, £6 4s 9d; costs, £1 3s 6d ; P. C. CJemow (Mr W. L. Fitzherbert) v. Ellen Cornwall, £2 10s sd, costs 10s; G. Livingston (Mr W. L. Fitzherbert) v. William Powley, £2 3s Od, costs 10s; A. E. Fletcher (Malone and Co.) v. J. A. Maisey, £5 13s 4d; costs £1 2s 6dj McEwen Bros. v. Mrs E. Lambert, 9s 9d, costs ss; West and Sons (Mr Johnstone) v. G. Laird, £13 2s 6d, costs £1 lQs Bd ; M. Kenningtoa (Mr W. L. Fitzherbert) v. E. McPartland, £6 7s 2d, costs £1 17s 6d. '