TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 16 May 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Press Association. WELLINGTON, yesterday

Judgment was*given this morning by Judge Cooper on a motion for a writ of mandamus to compel the Napier Borough Council to supply water from the municipal supply of the Borough to the Government buildings at Napier, or alternately for a writ of injunction restraining defendant's from cutting of. '.'tJni supply. The Court held that'the Government had a right to expect the municipality to supply a public building with water from the public service so long as the Government was prepared to pay a reasonable charge. Defendants had, without reasonable grounds, cut off the supply, ami the Court had power to make the injunction claimed. An order for injunction was issued, with ten guineas costs. His Honor during the judgment expressed the opinion that the Borough water meter did not register correctly, and that, the Government had been asked to pay for what it did, not consume.

OAMARU, yesterday. The Hon. Mr. McNali will"arrive at Oamaru by to-morrow afternoon’s express from the north, and be met by a deputation representative of the local bodies and others, who desire to confer with him on tlio Kurow forect plantation question. The Minister will then go to Kurow, where he will deal with the matter exhaustively. There is a determination on the part of the chief residents of the locality and others interested that the nursery and forest plantation shall not be abandoned if they can help it.