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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1081, 1 May 1882, Page 2

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(FROM OX7S OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Dunkdin, April 28. At the Police Court to-day, a scene took place between two Chinese interpreters, one accusing the other of wrong interpretations. The Celestials abused one another in Fnglish. The Bench finally put a stop to it by threatening to turn out the interpreter who next misbehaved. April 29. Chancellorand Vautilus are scratched for all engagements at the Birthday Meeting. Christchubch, April 28. Judge Johnston has been ordered by his medical advisers to get relief from his duties for a time. He has, therefore, applied for leave from the j» ppeal Court When granted, he will take a trip to Australia. I Auckland, April 28. Thomas Deacon was fined 20s. and costs for drawing beer without defacing the Customs Stamp on a cask of beer. Wellington, April 29. The cable repairing steamer Alice went out at daylight this morning to repair the broken cable across Cook's Straits; She took Dr. Lemon and Pilot Holmes. The latter to furnish information as to set of currents in the Straits. Williamson and the Patience Opera Company opened here last night to a crowded house. In a recent case in the Nelson Court, when a judgment- summons had been served on defendant in Wellington, Mr Broad, E.M., said — "Imprisonment for debt was absolntely abolished. A man could only be imprisoned now if it was proved that he had means to pay. The law allowed plaintiff to use defendant's evidence, that is, he could be examined on oath like any other witness. If plaintiff wanted to examine him he must summon him and tender his reasonable expenses to enable him to come to the Court, but he had no right to treat him in an exceptional way as a sort of offender. No one would think of saying that offering a passage by a particular steamer was a reasonable tender of expenses to a witness in an ordinary suit, then neither was it so if offered to defendant under this Act. If his evidence was for plaintiff in order to enable Lim to prove that which to get an order' he" must prove, indeed, dis-

tinctly undertake to, viz., that there was fraud he must pay.