GISBORNE SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 171, 13 April 1908, Page 8

GISBORNE SUPREME COURT.

tBT^IELEOBAI'n—PnESS ' ASSOCIATION.! Gisborne, April 11. ;At ,'the Gisborne ;Supreme '-Court a judgment by' Mr.. Justice Chapman in the caso Stewart v. the Wairoa County Council, heard at, last sitting of -tho ,Court, was read! /This was an action for trespass, and the ?010. question>inyolyed Was, wliether a strip of land for' some ' time' past used.as a road was proved to havo : been. dedicated as a highway.' Tho,. owner had alloived a road to be made through 1 his property, but contended that the Council had taken more - than was /.ecessary.. ■:. His ■ Honour held, that, prima facie,, when; a person allowed a public highwayi td be. made, .over his land he. was presumed toihay.o-dedicated'it to the public. His Honour did not think the existence of a registered memorandum stood, in tho way of the dedication of a greater, extont, or that it would staiid in the way of a transfer, and gavo judgment for defendant. . In the Banco case, William Brady (appellant) v. William Maddorn (respondent), a case arising out of the sale of a box-of gift tea, in which the Magistrate convicted appelant under the Trading Stamps Abolition and Discount Stamps Issue Act, His Honour ruled that the' conviction could not 'bo tained. The coupon in question, to como* within tho Act, must .refer tho holder to a trading stamp company to which ho may resort to havo his. coupion honoured. - In this caso the vendor himself .undertook to honour tho. coupon, Whicli was not a scheme at which the Legislature aimed. His Honour said 110 had discussed'the matter with other Judges and,they, agreed with the above conclusion.' The appeal was allowed with five -guineas costs.. '

Tho farm lands that are being sold on Wednesday next, at Greytown, are worth moro than passing notice. Tho College Reserve at Papawai comprises 385 acres, a well-fcnced well-watered property,. with good dwelling-' house, and all necessary outbuildings, only a few minutes' walk. from the Greytown Post Office, and fronted by best roads. This is a leasehold with a long term to run, and-for such a property, a low rental. The Purakan block is, a, freehold of 170 acres,./only a few chains' distant from the College Reserve, a property" without buildings. Both these places are said to comprise rich pastoral and agricultural soil and, apart from their groat value as ordinary farms, they are . also specially valuablo to station-holders and . others who are in need of rape-producing or' fattening ■ ground. " The Mutual Trading Company are selling at Greytown, in the Foresters' Hall,, at 2.30. p.m., to close accounts in the Tully ostates.