SUPREME COURT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 18

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS. Wednesday, Mahch 18. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Williams.) LEARY AND OTHEB9 V. THE TJNITBD HEfiCULES HYDEAULIC CLUICIKQ COMPANY (LIMITED). Motion for an injunction. Mr J. F. M. Fraser appeared for the plaintiffs, I and Mr Monat appeared on behalf of the defendants. It was ultimately agreed that the motion should be treated exparte. The application arose out of an alleged inter* Terence with the plaiutinV rights to take a certain supply of water from the Teviot stream, from which stream the defendants also take w«*rr ah a higher elevatioD, but with inferior lijf'jrs. The plaintiffs moved for an injunction to restrain the defendant company, its contractors, and servants from continuing to use its several water rights without fi>6t placing a gauge box or gauge boxeß on the race, and from further interfering with the plaintiffs' right to to have their -superior water rights satisfied from the Teviot stream, before the defendant company's infericr water rights were satisfied, in order of priority. The application for an injunction was founded on an undertakingentered in f o by the defendants' solicitor when the compauies last came before court in March 1890, by which the defendants promised that they would not interfere with the plaintiffs' right, and would put in a gauge box ; and that, in the event of the defendants not complying with the undertaking, an injunction should issue oa ex parte as by consent!. Tbe affidavit filed by Mr Fraser on behalf of the plaintiffs was read. His Honor ordered that an injunction fcsne in terms of the undertaking, and fixed the costs at £10 10i and disbursements. The court then rose.

We have received from Mr W. R. Frost, photographer, two companion pictures — " A Fish Story." In the firot, two well-known local angling enthusiasts are sepn taking a rest, surrounded by fcrophiVs of I heir skill with the rod and line in the ahapo of sooie utca rroufc. Oae ia evidently relating fome former triumph over a big traur, wbile the obher is co deeply interested in the story that he delays putting down the trout ho has been weighing. No. 2 shows the same two gentlemen, bub the attitudes are changed. The story, as fishing stories often rfo, has become too improbable. The listener bag just raised his hands ia a deprecatory manner as a protest, while the narrator, although ho cannot hut join in the laugh, -ia evidently earnestly asserting the truth of his oubrageoua story. The photos are excellently finished, and the two pictures are most creditable to Mr Frost, and should be prized by knigbta of the rod,