MABTEBTON-FBIDAY. (Before Colonel Roberts, E.M.) ALBERTBON V, DEVONSHIRE, In thia case the Bench gave judg ment for the plaintiff for the £5 and mare, or in default of the mare £l7, with costs £3 ss. On the application of Mr Bunny execution was stayed for a month, A STRANGE COMMISSION OASE, A somewhat peculiar case was heard, in which Mrs Mario Monller, of Wel lington, claimed from Mr G. S, W, ' Dal'rymple, commission agent, of ' Maßterlon, the sura ot £l9 15s. In ' /the statement of claim the plaintiff I (1) She was the owner of oer tain land and house property in Co lombo road, Masterton, (2) The defendant, between April, 1891, and February, 1892, aoted as her agent in looking after the said property, (8). On the 20th of April, 1891, the Defendant wrote to the plaintiff on closing a tender from one H, Kobins tor repairs and additions to the said property for the price of £19155, and advised her to accept the said tender. (i), In his letter enclosing the tender he asked the plaintiff to send him the said defendant a promissory note un dated, stating that he would fill in the date and hand it to the contractor, H. Robins, in payment for additions and repairs when the same would be com pleted in a workmanlike and satis* factory manner. (5). The plain tiff sent him a promissory note for - £1915s undated as requested. (6), The defendant on or about the 29th day of May, 1891, without the con sent of, and unknown to the plaintiff, discounted or negotiated the promis- : sory note and converted the same to. .Jiis own use in his own business tran- , auctions after having filled in the date : although the promissory note was sent i to him for a specific purpose other ' than that to which the defendant appli- ' edit. (7). 