PRESS TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12618, 1 December 1926, Page 9

PRESS TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

Eight Auckland ratepayers are claiming compensation totalling .£5392 for alleged depreciation of property owing to aromas from the Nortncote Borough Council's sewerage system. • * * • The Takapuna Borough Council is appealing again it the magistrate's decision respecting the dismissing of a charge brought against, thj Waitemata 'Bus Company and A H. Smith for running 'buses in contravention of tine Omnibus Traffic Act. Logoi argument was heard ut length, and the hearing was adjourned. • • • * An unusual point was involved in a compensation claim by Edwin Hurst against the Glenafton Collieries, Limited, which was heard in the Arbitration Court, Auckland. Claimant received compensation for an injury to an arm on October 22nd last year. Early this year ho was informed by Dr Carriek Robertson that if an operation wero performed Hurst would be able to work in two oi three weeks. Being a Waikato resident there was delay in getting admittance to the Auckland Uosoital, and he entered a private hospital, where an operation was performed, and was successful as predicted. The claim was for £B2 0s 2d, and the defendant complained that unnecessary delay had taken place. The court* in granting the full amount, considered the claim was reasonable, especially as doctors at Hamilton had informed plaintiff that an operation would not be successful. • i • • The inquest on Daniel Casey, who died in Auckland Hospital when being givcu an anaesthetic, wa« adjourned sine die, in order that a doctor may carry out un examination on behalf of the dead inane relatatives. * * v * • Ilcnrv Denham, the driver of a motorcar which ran into a tramway pole in Christchurch, with the result that two passengers were killed, was committed for trial yesterday on charges of killing by an unlawful net. The death has taken place of Mr« Kate McCosb (’lark, aged 79 years, widow of tho late Mr James McCosh Chirk, Mayor of Auckland from 1880 to 1883. The deceased wrote a number of works on Maori folk lore as well as books of poems. • • « • l ive challenges have hcon received by the Takapuna Boating Club- for the annual Cornwell Cup contest, which will be held at Lyttelton next February, about the same time as tho Saunders Chip races Canterbury is the bolder of the cup, and the challenging tuovinces nro Otago. Wellington. Hawke’s Bay, Auckland, end Taranaki. The challenges i constitute a record. J