Including fittings, he reckoned the market value £IOO, and he thought it would be worth £SO more if it carried the name of a celebrated maker.—Mr Adams, in opening the case for the defence, said that no evi dence had been led to connect Thomas Hitchcock with any wrongful acts (sup posing there were such wrongful acts), and he intended to move at once for a nonsuit so far as that defendant was concerned. He would also submit that the arrangement sug gested by the defendant was utterly absurd, and, even if it really existed, could Dot have been enforced. Defendant and his witness Williamson said that the two tables which Hitchcock was to build at a cost of £l6O were to be sold to defendant at £l5O, and that Hitchcock was to lend him £IOO to purchase with and take 6 or 8 per cent, for the money. Such an agreement would be ab surd, and could not be enforced, for there was no consideration for the loan of £IOO ; more over, there was no agreement suggested on the part of Thomson to purchase, and no agreement so far as could be discovered for the building of the tables and the sale to Thomson. Learned couusel proceeded to argue the case from this and other points of view, and on concluding His Worship said he would hear the evidence before deciding the questions of law.—E. C. Reynolds was under examination at 4.30 p.m. CITY POLICE COUBT. (Before Mr J. Hyman, J.P.) Drunkenness. Emma Pame.ll and Richard King were convicted and dis charged ; Annie Mains wa3 fined sa, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment; Fanny Nettle/old was fined 10s, in default three days' imprisonment,

A By-law Gash. —.Elka M* William, for allowing two jjewstp wander in the North-east Valley, va» fined 2s Bd. Cabmen is TaotTßiJß.— David M'Keum Was charged With)' ofa Saturday, 11th inet., plying for-hire withr a Carriage elsewhere than on an appointed standi Mr F. ft. Chapman appeared for Mr BarrOnj inspector of vehicles t defendant did hot appear.— Mr Chapniata said this was one of a series of bases of what was known as •'duck-shoving''—a process of getting passengers which operated very unfairly against the cabmen who wished to obey the by-law and keep on the stand in the ordinary way. 