A RIGHT HONORABLE WOODCUTTER.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 5 June 1878, Page 2

A RIGHT HONORABLE WOODCUTTER.

A,n notion wna tried at tho J'olton County Court rccontly, arising out of tho tammw ILiwarden cnao last August, when Mr, Gladstono displayod his skill as woo.lrultor in an appropriate costume to n crowd of ndnjirini? excursionists. Tho plaintiff, ahw atntioncr sued tho defendant, n photographer, for tho sum of £S Ss, alleged to, bo dv^p in assisting photographing Mr 'Glftdstbno in ilio net of tree-foiling, and otW sorvie'es, Tho plaintiff nnd ilofondnnt woro nmont» tho ox«'ursioni«is whou Mr'Glndstono hut dowut ho tree; nn.l on, tlVoir way homo a lmppy thought, >ntiMv.l tho roind of tho plnintilF. which ho impurtod to the dofondant, thnt Mr atpno might bo induced to stuitl l'ir I' 1 * photograph in thoohnractorof tho *\V'>.»iN cutter,' nt tho loot of t;lio tree wliioh ho had so grnciously eonilescondod to foil. Aftor somo littlo difilculty, Mr Gladstone" whs induced to 'stand for the photograph ; ond tho defendant, according to tho plain-" tifjf!s nccotmt promised that if tho srhoino proved to bo n profitable speculation, ho. (tho plaintiff) should be rewarded handS'omoly. Tho two accordingly piwocdo.l, to Hnwardcn, and tho phoLo^rapli was !t:iken, the defendant socurina; tihou'. halt' • ftdo^en negatives. ' The Vi-nfuro .-niooars to havo uo'cii highly su.rcesshil, t> tho, .ilofendant was suhsequenlly ofFoivd .I'IOOO, 'for tho negatives, but' denlined tin 1 oiler. <y\^ sold a 'half share' for lU sum of CoOO, reserving eorlnin righis, •-!*;. Ho, duo's n-'t aet'tn, however, to hrvo n-innno* rated the plaint iff, for the p.u-t th.- I-iUim* Had tuke'n in ilio nfTiir, ;\nj henec tlio, notion, which ended in a ven'.ict t^r the defendant 'wiili c ;?'s ; tho j'tduo holdm •.* iliat there had boon r,o con/net oil t ho part of the del"''nd.|n!., f!u)u;:h there niigh',. liiive been a pi'oinjso of a pro-* nl.