COURT OF APPEAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 86, 10 April 1908, Page 5

COURT OF APPEAL.

EAST COAST NATIVE CASE. The Court of Appeal to-day concluded its hearing in the casß between Wetini Rikirangi and other natives and the East Coast Commissioner. The action was for" discovery and accounts. Mr. G. Hutchison appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. H. D. Bell, K.C., with him Mr. Nolan, for the defendant. Tha president of the court,' Mr. Justice Williams, held that it would be impossible to give the relief claimed in this case without interfering with the duties which Parliament, had imposed •upon the* Valuation Court. If the proEor court in which the relief ought to s sought was the Validation Court, the application for discovery ought to have *baen made to that court. It would, his Honour said, be futile to give discovery in the Court of Appeal even if it was a proper court to gp to. Judgment must be for the defendant.' Mr. Justice Edwards, Mr. Justice Cooper, and Mr. Justice Chapman came to tho same decision. Costs were allowed in the Supremo Court as on £1000, and in the Appeal ' Court on the highest scale as from a distance. Looking ahead one cannot but realise that* tho cold wet day* of winter are clone at 'band, and that preparedness it ahuayn tho rulo to eafely. Wo are propared to supply you With warm blankets for chilly winter nights. The largest shipm6nt of English blankets was turned over to us by the Customs a few days ago. One thousand pairs blankets, guaranteed quality, singlo bed, 9« lid, 11s 6d, 15s 9d; doubles bed, 14s 6d, 15s 9d, 18a 9d. Special importation of imitation coflhnial blankets, undoubtedly the best lin<> iKtho Dominion — Single bed, 15s 9d ; double bod, 21a. Ono thousand pairs colonial blankets, all makes, including the well-known Kjiipot and Ro«lyn— Singlo bed, 13s 6d, '21», 22b 6d; double bed, 25a, 27« 6d ,29s 6d. At C. Smith's, Ltd., Cuba-street.— Advt. \ Most pipe smokers are aware of the great difficulty that has been experienced by pijje manufacturers of lats years in obtaining good briar root. The native home of Briar Root, the Jura Mountains, in France, has had to meet such great demands of late years that the stock of thia fine wood, used for making pipes, is last being depleted, with the result that Briar Root pipes are advancing considerably in price. Notwithstanding the foregoing iact, Mr. G. Aldous, the tobacconist, o( Lambton-quay, announces on our leader page that be can supply a magnificent London-made briar root pipe turner hi* own registered brand, "0.A.," tor 2s 6d.—Advt. .Next Sunday will be the lait Sunday, iliis seaion upon which trains will run to nod from Ojaki.