STOP PRESS NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17171, 15 October 1923, Page 1

STOP PRESS NEWS.

CLAIM: FOR DAMAGES. In the claim for £750 damages ease against the N.Z. Pictures Supplies, J. Robertsons cross-examina-tion was continued. Mr Wilding: You sometimes get dull and stupid people in tlie theatre?—'Sometimes. And people who have had a little drink, and are a bit merry?—No; if they show any signs of xnerrimenl they are strictly barred. Tt was im possible absolutely to guard against the admission of drunken men. as some did, not show that they had been drinking. Eagle acquiesced in witness’s statement that it was a stiff price to pay for a few drinks. Richard Edward Nightingale, secretary of the Canterbury Builders’ Association, said that- the door was not safe in the dark to a perron not nsorl to the place, but the noise of the dynamo should warn people that, machinery was kept there. (Proceeding). DROPPED DEAD. O AMARU, October 15. David Black, a ploughman, aged about forty, dropped dead while harrowing to-day at Georgetown. He was a newcomer to the district, and hajd no known relatives locally.