COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14065, 20 August 1913, Page 6

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

FLORIST SUES FOR COST OF DECORATIONS. A CLAIM FOR '£64. ■ (Per United Press Association.) • WELLINGTON, August 19. At tlio Magistrate’s Court ;to-d,»y, fore Di*. McArthur, 5.M.,; Miss llosalihd Prebblc, -florist, sued Mrs Janet Williams 1 , for the sum of <664. for floral -decorations; carried out by plaintiff in connection Svithtire citizens'’ ball given in honour of the visit of HIM.S. New, Zealand to -Welling-, ton. Plaintiff said ~she -was instructed by - Mrs Williams to carry opt the Work, ana.i lio object lon was made to the • price she ■ quoted, ,£&i. A suggestion was made later ; that the-price should be reduced to £3si: if tlio ball wore not successful, but shej did-not. agree. ' -. After hearing ' evidence, his -.Worslvpj made an order that the sum of .£55 whiohj had - been paid into Court by defendant should be handed over to plaintiff, and'adjourned .further hearing sine die. When] the case is called again the evidence ofi the defendant, who is at present'in Chrst-} church, will .be heard. ■; ' , t - ■ ! •£2OO DAMAGES FOR. ASSAULT. i DUNEDIN, August 19. i In the Supreme Court to-day the easel in which William John Town ley I claimed; i£sol damages from James Joseph Nyhdnl for alleged assault was-''concluded. The, parties resided on the Peninsula, and had: been bad friends for some years. It was; alleged that the. defendant ■severely a«-i saulted plaintiff, on a lonely part of the; road. The defence was• that':’plaintiff as-: saulted defendant, who did not Use unnecessary violence in. defending -himself4 The. jury found for- the plaintiff, award- 1 , ing him £2OO.