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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 49

A sitting of the Court of Appeal the delivery of judgments was held on the Ist; when the Bench was occupied by the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Edwards. In the case Commissioner of Crown Lands for Auckland v. Taupiri Coal Mining Company, in which judgment was delivered last year, it was ordered, with the consent of counsel, that it .should be stated in the certificate that the writ of injunction should lie in the Court and not issue until the Crown should require it to issue. Judgment was also delivered in Brown v. Brown, a will case from Ashburton, in which the widow of the late John Brown, farmer, sought- to regain possession of certain property. Judgment was given in favour of Mi'S Brown against her son, Samuel Brown, with costs. As to the other defendants (the trustees . under the will and their solicitor), judgment was given for them, but without costs. The Court was adjourned till the 18th March.

The E Battery, at Christchurch, was •nnable to carry out the instructions of the authorities to fire a salute on the proclamation of the King, owing to the fact that it had’ no ammunition!