A TOWN ARRESTED

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5157, 14 November 1912, Page 6

A TOWN ARRESTED

Port Erin, the well-knwon water-ing-place in the lale of Man, was put unaer arrest last month by the Coroner, acting under an order in Chancery in an action against the Port Erin Commissioners. Some years ago the Commissioners agreed with the late High Bailiff of Peel, Alfred Nelson Laughton, to purchase the “Brows,” a property overlooking the bay. A new Board of Commissioners refused to complete the purchas, and litigation resulted in an execution for £2250, the purchase price of the proprety, together with interest at 4 per cent, from 1006, and £4OO costs. In July a member of the House of Keys moved a vote of £100') from the revenue in aid of the Commissioners, but Lord Raglan refused to accept the motion, and a constitutional question arose, involving a deadlock betweenn the two branches of the Legislature. The Tynwald solved the difiieully by allowing Port Erin to borrow for 25 years a sum sufficient to meet their obligations, and as the Commissioners failed to take prompt stops to raise the money, the execution was put in the other day. All properties, moneys, and rights in rates were arrested.