SUPREME COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12935, 1 October 1902, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

[Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, Sept. 30.

The Supreme Court -was occupied to-day with a case of some importance • affecting the question of residence on Crown lands undet.'lcase-in-perpetuity. The Land Board forfeited the lease of Tanfield Thompson on the grounds of non-compliance with residential conditions. This decision is appealed against. HOKITIKA, Sept. 30. In the Supreme Court in Rex v. Gregory the case for the Crown closed’ this morning. Mr Guinness, for the accused, applied for a remand till Thursday to enable further evidence to be obtainable from Murchison. His Honor consented. In the case Hillier v. Jacobs, a charge of creating a public nuisance by erecting certain buildings on a public road near Greymouth, after hearing two surveyors’ evidence, Mr Justice Denniston directed the jury to find a technical verdict of guilty, and then ordered the buildings to be removed in a reasonable time. The question of costs was reserved to enable the Judge to donsult other Judges. In civil jurisdiction the case Earl v. the Government was commenced before a jury. This is a claim for £ISOO damages for the loss of plaintiff’s right leg on the Greymouth wharf twelve months ago by a railway truck passing over him. Several witnesses for the complainant were examined, and the further hearing of the case was adjourned till to-morrow.