RIPARIAN RIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 433, 16 February 1909, Page 8

RIPARIAN RIGHTS.

V , '. Mr. - Justice Cooper, , -with'-.; assessors,'. was , 'engaged-yesterday, in. hearing al'.'claim-.',by the": Hawera Electric Lighting Company, Ltd.', against'; the 'Eltham; Borough Cpuncil,. to. re-, cover: £2400 .'damages.' •■'■ llr.:. G.'..Vi ; ..Pearce was assessor.; for;the. ; olairaants, ;and Mr. 1 Jas/ IJbddib* for-tho respondents'.'-. ■' , :: : ';:'■ .::' ..;:: Sir:; OP. :Skerrett i: K.C;, Was. counsol; .for: .the claimants, •; ',and ;-;.the Attorney-General. (i)r. Rndlay, -K.C.), :with ,Mr.- J.,:L';: Stout, .for the, respondents..:' , ' : ; ThoVstatement lof claim'' set ■ fbrth.'■' showed that'the-Hawera.Electric ' (Lighting ,Gompariy had, ; -in ;. 1904'; constructed, a}-hydro-: eleotric power: station :on'"the.-JVaihgongqro" liivcr,- 7 near Okaiawa/. The'• work;'had 'been', authorised by; a'special Act in 1902,,:iiamely; ■the'. Haiyera. County Eleotrip Lighting 'Act. Further up the-same riyer;' in. 1904, the bor-; ough-bf..i'llltham .hadvcqiistructedi avwater:works, its 'supply from : the': ; ;streiih.: This',, it .was submitted, had : caused a : shprti dge: of .water for. wArking tho plant' of'the claimants, who sbught.to .recover -£2400,j,a's' ■ropresenting the.-value by which-their'water-'rights.had been , depreciated.. In.;! July' last ■tho legal .right of. the , claimants, to'compen: ; sati6n was .determined by.-;the;Full '.Ceurt;' '•

■:'■■- After part of .tlie.'.argume'nt bad■. been liea'rd, the,, Court adjourned until this .mom-,. ing^:.-.;;:'vy;>; , '^;;.;:;^•^■'.A^';^*^'

; -The. Venerable '~Ay.E.';Seymour, Archdeacon :of'Barnstapl6siiice::lß9p,;.arid.,vicar, of-Ilfra-: combe since. 1905, .has-died .. iit'.'thprage.'of sixty-seven. 1 He , was a brother;of Sir Edward Seymour, who commanded■! the 'allied: expedi-' tion, 'against the: Boxers: ..in:;China ! in 1900 Tho. Archdeacoiii was , /grpatly;'beloved.;,'by' all classes.' ' : \. •■■'■ l '■•,'.'•.'.;' ]■:::■': .:'■ ''.::'•'.'■';;, ■'■