The case for the defence was that the agree ment alleged by the plaintiff, and said to have been destroyed by the defendant, was a pure invention; that the plaintiff was engaged through Mr Skene's labour agency as cook and general servant at 10s per week, and that no _other_arxansement_was..exeiiinade, __ 'v__l_: After hearing the evidence,

His Honor delivered judgment as follows : "The alleged agreement is said to have been entered into on the 21st October last, but plaintiff entered the service of the defendant in the month of August. It thus becomes material to inquire what the circumstances were under, which the plaintiff had entered the defendant's service. Now the evidence given by the plaintiff on the subject seems to me to be rather extraordinary. She said that she was attracted by an advertisement which was read to her by one of her friends; that in consequence of that she went up to the de fendant's and there arranged to take charge temporarily in order to enable her to decide whether she would be able to take permanent charge of the boarding house; and that nothing was said, and no arrangement at all was made, for any payment of wages. She was asked par ticularly whether this arrangement was made through Mr Skene, whether she had ever been to Mr Skene about it, or whether she had ever seen Mr Skene. She said 'No; that she went in consequence of the advertisement.' Now, we have the direct testimony both of Skene and Mr Coles that the engagement was negotiated through Skene. Skene may possibly have con fused the plaintiff with Miss Hayward, but that is really immaterial, because from their united testimony the engagement was made in Skene's office through Skene, and the entry which Skene has in his books was that the place required was that of a thorough general servant. The fact of this direct conflict of evidence between Skene and Miss Hayward, on the one side, and the plaintiff, on ' the other, throws the greatest discredit on the plaintiff's testimony, and the accounts which she herself has given of the terms on which she originally entered Coles' service are in them selves extraordinary. 