WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11739, 12 September 1890, Page 2

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

— - — ♦ ' [Per United Press Association.] Wellington, September 11, In the Supreme Court to-day judgment was given in the case of Hadfield v. the Public Trustee, in which the plaintiff, Ann Isabella Hadfield, sought rectification of various alleged breaches of trusts, acts of neglect, and wilful default, entailing loss to the estate, which were said to have been committed mainly by the predecessor in office of the present Public Trustee as administrator of the estate of her father. As to the charges of letting the hotel at under rent and unauthorised expenditure for an agency in collecting rents, the Chief Justice held that the evidence did not justify a finding against the defendant. Regarding the claim for the loss sustained by the plaintiff through defendant rebuilding that portion of the hotel on a leasehold without securing an extended lease, his Honor held that the claimant was entitled to charge the Trustee with any loss she may have sustained by reason of neglect to obtain in 1878 a lease for 21 years of land which is now in the freehold. As to architects tees for preparing plans for shops which the defendant did not proceed with, the Judge hsld that the Public Trustee at the time the liability was incurred was not justified in doing so. It did not apVeax that any application was made to the Supreme Court to obtain anythin" to carry out the schemes. If any had b°een made jt was certain not to have succeeded As the liability ought not to have been incurred it ought not to have been discharged out of the trust funds. The Public Trustee mußt therefore account for several sums paid to Mr Tringham in respeot of the plans, stated to amount to over £200, with interest at the rate of three. per cent, from the time of the payment of the several sums, As to the loss, the plaintiff must have general costs of the case on the claim of £500, but without any extra damages, and second counsel and witnasses expenses, called in support of tho allegation that the hotel was let at an under value. An election for a representative of Thorndon Ward in the City Council took place to-day, when Mr W. F. Parsons defeated Mr Martin Chapman, the sitting member, by 340 votes to 204. °