ECHO OF THE BOER WAR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 696, 22 December 1909, Page 7

ECHO OF THE BOER WAR.

C,rr - VAN ACTION 'DISMISSED, v' . V" '; (3y Telesrapn—Pres« Ajeoclallon-CopjrlghU , V v -'■ ■■■'■ ■ Londotij December 20.-. , The action the Imperial Cold Storage Supply. Company versus the Crown, . claim £280,000,' was dismissed, with"costs:-. ■'■■■•'■' : ■ ; .- ' .'-.'. -'V;;;--f'iV",/,- >.■:'■'■.': -. : V ; 'V-.-■■.' : ; -' '■'. ' ;:/;_':; 'i' ■ ■ KJTCHENER AND THE COMPANY. , •The Imperial Cold- Storage and Supply Company, Ltd., was-registered under the laws of the Transvaal on February 19, 1902, and its head office is at Pretoria. The directorate! include some well-known South African-names:— Allan' Hughes (chairman), Sir JameS Sivewight, K.C.M.G... S, B. Joel, Isaac Lewis, Juhus Weil, B. R. Tymms,' Samuel Marks, and Thomas Theron. V-' ' .'. . : ■ A; trial, was. commenced in November on a petition of right from thelmperiaj .Cold Storage and. Supply Company, Limited, in which ■£280,000 waS claimed from the for alleged breach of contract. The petition' alleged- that representatives of the War Office promised to supply the company with all Btock captured by Lord Kitchener during tho bouth Airican .war at a penny below tho price of tho - contract for supplying moat to • tho wmyj but. tho War Office charged-3d. above the contract price, and also refused to allow for disease or poverty of animals.. -According to, some of tho witnesses, Lord Kitohener declared that prior to. these agroomente the" Government had been defrauded to the extent .of a j million sterling, and ho would not be; satisfied till he had got some of it back. •;-. ' :. ■'■ ~: ■ ; ' .••■■•■