Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 155, 28 May 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

There is no rest for the weary. Last Saturday a deputation pareora from the Pareora settle.water inent waited upon the supply members of the Canterbury Land Board in Timaru to inquire whether .they could do anything with regard to the water supply in the settlement. The settlers have to pay a heavy interest rate to the Waimate County Council, and when they took up the land they .had no idea of this. The deputation asked the Commissioners whether they could do anything in the matter. The water supply is very defective and a number of people have been obliged to erect mills, the water running in the races for only. three months in the year. The reply was that they (the Comihis. sionors) could not.. They recommended' the deputation to ..write to the Hon*" W.J. Steward, M.H.R., which was done in a letter explaining particulars of the case, and asking him if he would come down and inspect the race and headworks. YVith the promptitude that has always characterised him the Major sent tho following reply; " Your letter just received. I only returned yesterday after three months' continuous travelling and I should like to have rested a fortnight or so, but I will run down to St. Andrews by the express train on Tuesday n«xt, May 28th, if you will meet me there. I propose to stop at St. Andrews and go out with you to see the water race on Wednesday morning. I understand you will drive me out." So there will be an inspection of the races and headworks on Wednesday morning and the near future may see a vexed question permanently settled.

The Perthshire's disablement, though now but a faded the memory, was again to shjre the lore on Friday in Wellington, when the Court of Appeal delivered judgment in the case Union Steam, Ship Company v. Jenkins and Bower, an appeal against the judgment of ex-Judge ! Martin, who had awarded the respondents damages for loss on a cargo of onions shipped from Lyttleton to Syd-. ney last year, da the voyage in which the Talane searched for the disabled | Perthshire, Hie Honor tho I

Chief Justice held that tba deviation made in the voyage was-net-unreason-able, and that the appeal would be allowed, with costs on the lowest scale. The written judgment of Mr Justice Williams held that a natural' result cT the deviation was the cause of damag 6 10 perishable goods, and that -the appeal should bo dismissed. Mr Justice Conolly also held that the appeal should be dismissed, being of opinion that the Company was liable for any damage caused by deviation. Mr Justice Edwards and Mr Justice Oooper concurred with his Honor Ihs Chief Justice that the appeal should be allowed. The appeal was allowed accordingly, with costs on the lowest scale. Seems funny, too. The onioa owner stands the loss in any case while the steamship owner gets his freight and any silvagß he may pi.-Ij up while ".monkeying round" tta bvirty d«ep.