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Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 3075, 6 October 1899, Page 3

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<p • Per Press Association. WOODVILLE, October 5. In Mills v. Wilkp, plaintiff alleged that defendant owed him £106 on a laud transaction. Defendant swore that he held a biy.i'.i fide receipt for the full amount, but i ltu Sripendii'iy MngisliMto gave judgment fur plainviff. lie considered the lvceipt forged, ;vid a pi'osceiilion should folk'.v for fabric lUiif* evidence. in a case against the licensee of the KuniL'io.i Hotel for keening premises '•pen, all the witnesses except one swore •liat they did not purchase diink. The Magistrate held that though no drink in :y have been sold ti.e landlord did not :.re*t the men as trui'sts, but for the purpose of keeping the business together. Lv-fendant was fined 403 and cosLs_ 7s. For Sunday Ira ding, he was also fined 40a and costs £4 15s. WELLINGTON, October 5. Mr C. B, Davf-y, Chief Judge of the Native Laud Court, iel.ire3 at the endof the year on a pension of £400. In reply to a deputation who waited on him yesterday, Mr Blair definitely decided not to stand for the mayoralty again. The members of the Wellington Ministers' Association, in view of other pressing duties and considering the amount of unnecessary labour which Sunday funerals involve, have agreed to the discontinuance of any Sunday funeral, unless the same is absolutely necetsiry in the interests of private and public health. The bror.zo medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia has teen awarded to William H'tines, of Dannevirke Haines, on the 22nd"of June last, when bricks were being taken out of a kiln, noticed that the stack was filling He immediately rushed forward and received the whole weight on his own body, thus saving a boy who was stand ing there, and who would probably have been killed if it had not been for Haines' action. DUNEDIN, October 5. Dredging share sales: — Bannockburn Creek, 6d ; Blua Duck, Is 31 ; Cardrona Valley, Is 3d ; Dunedin, 10s; Galvanic, 3s 9J ; Golden Point, 36*; Halfway House, 5a 6.1 ; Hartley and Riley, 157s 6d ; Klonrfyke, 7s 9) ; Magnetic, 7?,a 6i ; Nevis, 25s 6d ; No. 2 Matau, 33 6d-3s ; Second Magnetic, 9a 6d; Smith's Creek, 6.1 discount; Upper Magnetic, 23. Lavinia Morgan, aged eight years, died in the hospital last night through her clothes catching fire while attending at the Woodside (Taieri) School.