Mr. Platt—am giving up something to my learned friend in consenting to these hibits being taken out. T thought he in return, Platt is not appearing for the servant.
Mx. Platt—No, but Th ave assented to acertain course to oblige Tearned fri Tf he thinks that, consent from me, he should not give anything in return, I have nothing more to in the matter. I will entirely His Worship—I have no power to make any orde s the Mr. Platt—$25 a month, and the servant has not been paid for—say six weeks.
"The matter was not further gone into, and an adjournment was finally granted until may he a rough om ation, but the kuuiliness of its inten! t' be quest-oned; therefore it may not be out of place to adopt it he Those who may be suffering from bad health can be speedily relieved from their misery by the sid of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. They are equally yood for the old, young, or middle-aged, For weakness, lassitude, fever, diarrhea, dysentery, measles, croup and similar complaints, these medicines cannot be equalled; whilst for skin diseases, sores, ulcers, scrofula and old wounds, they jiave effected cures in cases declared hopeless, by eminent medical men. Full directions a8 to the use of these remarkable remedies are given to purchasers, 4.—Fos the const house, plaintiff was to receive Ts, mani's house.
The total amount to be paid to plaintiff during the Sth Gti year of Kwang Hei balance of Ths. 2,615.
From this balance is to be deducted that is, The, on behalf of plaintiff their Is, andi for which a expended Mr. Kind eveed to pay 1,189.4.7 due at the plaintiff may hav such further or other relief as the ature of the owse may require.
Pwagriphs 1,23, 4, with the exception' that onl in paragraph The defendant denies that the plaintiff srs according to sperity asserts that the lai wilfully broke jis eon in concoqnence of wh obliged to tind other tractors und to incur much expense as set out i the accounts hereto The defendant has paid to the plaintiff Ts. 3,09, which is an adequate comper: tion for the done and niaterial supplies by the plain By breaking his contracts the plaintiff cuirred the penalties set out therein, on account the plaintiff counterclaims for The defendant therefore prays, 1.—That the suit of the plaintiff be dismissed as frivolous and vexatious.
2,—That the plaintiff be made to pay Tls. 850 and ull the cests of this action, The opinion of the Court is that Exhibit A" produced by the defendant as the contract. for Mr. Kinder'a house in all probability the contract which was made by the plaintiff and that the contract has not been carried out by him.
But the action of the defendant, taking the work on the buildings into h own hans before the term stipulated the contract had expired, precludes the possibility of determining what fine should be levied for subsequent breich of contract on the plaintiff's part, and also prevents the establishment of defendant's claim for work lete unfinished.
The Court therefore holds that the sum of Tls. 431.32 shown in defendant's answer las remaining in his hands, as a balance on the three contracts, which forms the subject of this suit, should be paid to the plaintiff as due to him on the contracts.
In these a sum of Tls. 84, charged in the defendant's accounts for square tiles and felt for Mr. Tuckey's house, must be deducted from the accounts for work done mistake on of thy article, th part of the writer the Mixed Court on Wednesday (12th) before Mr. Wong (magistrate) and Mr. S. F. Mayers (British assessor), two mo-e wen were charged in connection with the burglary at Messrs. Hall & Holtz on the Qist of Inst February, These were the men implicited by the ether two tried the 19th ultimo, The prisoners now before the court had no less than si cha Larceny against them besides that of Messrs, Hall & Holtz. Prisoners were sentenced to revive 309 blows and 12 months! imprisonment with hard labour.
man was charged with entering a eller's shop and obtaining ferie gold Tings and a hairpin, 'The assessor observed that his modus operand' was a most. dare-faced one, He had several rolls of clay made i the which, when wrapped in paner, looked like bundles of $100 h. Putting these upon the counter lhe asked to see some gold rings, te, After handling these, he requested to be shown rand, whilst the shop nvin's hae nod, he absconded with gold ch were valued ar $92, He was given 500 blows and twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour, Three men who had been arrested ut: Pon-tung were brought up on a charge of cutting out a man's eyes thers on the 21st of March. The victim, Inspector Ramsay said, was not much better than the men who had done the deed, as he had been living by extortion previous to the attack upon him, The man appeared in Court with his head bandaged and Detective Inspector Armstrong handed statements made by the men to the Court, The assessor remarked that the plaintiff looked all right and Inspector Ramsay agreed hut said he was ruined for life. The men denied the charge but prisoner had given an accurate description of them which had led to their arrest. The Court decided to send them to the City for ttial.—An opium shopkeeper was accused of permitting a female to smoke onium in his shop after being repeatedly told by her husband not to allow her to-do so and contrary to the Municipal Regulations. He was fined $5
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