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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6315, 16 September 1907, Page 8

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A CLAIM FOR LIGHT INTERESTING LAW POINT. PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, September 14. Judgment was given by .Mr Justice Uenniston in tho Supreme Court tomy in the case of Sarah Selina Westuey v Frances John Halm, in which the plaintiff sought for an injunction, or £‘2oo damages,, in connection with allcicd “iat-irt'eroarc with ancient lights." The case was a somewhat ./icuiiar one. The plaintiff was the -owner of a cottage in Hobson street, next to which tho defendant had built a store, blidciig or dimishing the light entering a bedroom of the cotLajit* The darn was based on an Act of William IV., which provided that the owner of a property having had uninterrupted enjoyment of light for a period of over twenty years, the right thereto should be deemed absolute and indefeasible, any local usage or custom tj tiu* contrary notwithstanding. His Honor gave judgment fer the plaintiff’, and awarded £75 damages and costs; in tho event of payment not being made within one month an injunction to bo granted for tho removal of the obstruction.

THE NEW MAIL SERVICE. AUCKLAND, September 14. Mr V. A. Sproul, representative of the Howard-Smith Company, Limited, states that the Foreric, which will bo duo at this port about tho 23rd inst., had ten tons of mail matter on board from the United States and Canada. ALLEGED MISCONDUCT. CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. The adjourned hearing of.the objections by tho pol'ce to the renewal of tho license of tho Criterion Hotel was hold before the Christchurch Licensing Committee yesterday afternoon. The information was laid under section 76, subsection 3, of tho Licensing Act of 1881, -which was as follows; —"It shall bo lawful for the Licensing Committee at any quarterly licensing meeting to determine and put an end to any license then current if it shall bo proved to their satisfaction that the_ licensed house is conducted in an improper manner, or that the holder such license is openly and repeatedly intoxicated. or that any conditions, upon which the license was granted have not been fulfilled in a satisfactory manner.” The alleged misconduct of the house occurred during six or seven months, roughly coinciding with the period of the Exhibition. The mam allegation was that tho house had sis or seven barmaids who were used to incite people to drink to excess, and who wore "shouted" for by customers, and were frequently intoxicated.. The customers were pressed to ‘‘shout champagne for tho girls. A large quantity of very contradictory evidence was given, and tho caso adjourned till VV ednesday afternoon next, in order that the licensee, who could not attend through illness, might be present.

THE NIGHTCAPS INQUIRY

INVERCARGILL. September 14. -Vt the Nightcaps Commission, Deputy Dixon, recalled, admitted that once he had to bo carried away from a fire whore ho had been pouring water, and had been overcome ' by < oscs. Ah-.ut wo months before the disaster. Maokie and Lloyd earned him away. James Somerville, who had been eleven years in service of ihe Nightcaps Company, hut who has left and become a farmer since the fire, said that the night shift had' once called Frame out about two months before the disaster, _ because' of tho smoko ‘ and fire being bad. Frame said that they were not to call him again. . On that occasion the fan was started and the smoke, was cleared away and the fire got under. Witness and a hoy were troubled by smoke every night. Several' times ho felt overcome by something in tho mine. Ho nearly always had a headache on the night shift, and frequently vomited.