GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 287, 28 April 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

AN APPEAL JUDGMENT. Wellington, Thursday. Delivering judgment in ve Collins, a case in the Appeal Court, Mr. Justice Edwards said that owing to the facts not being properly brought before the Chief Justice in the court below, he had not ordered certain interested parties to be served. The court therefore advised' that these interested parties should be served and the appeal would stand over sine die in the meantime. A LAND BOARD CASE. Wellington. Thursday. The Land Board d".i!t to-day with an application by J. « I.aciv, a, settbr in Te Rata Valley, off the Warganui river, for consid-SMtin-i on account of (he !o,:s of £7OO thmsh a fre vnicii destroyed his crop of mpe seed, which bad (.nsfc fISO to put in. Laci-y admitted that he had received some benefit from t!u 'fire, which had cleared the land of some usele?* vegetation, I7e Cim»& thai, he had taken a risk in sou.ng unusual!v early. Tbc Rmrd decided that it could not grant any remission of rent, but promised to consider the'matter if the proposed legislation concerning the rentals of sectiocs in the district wore passed.

RAIN AT GREYMOUTII. Greymouth. Two days' successively sharp electrical storms have aroused the in'- abitaiits at four in the morning, after which a heavy downpour of rain confirmed rill daylight, when it ceased.