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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3862, 20 July 1891, Page 2

Sara Serahar&t.

Auckland, July 18. Mr Abbey, theatrical manager, states positively that Sara Bernhards j, will not perform in the colony, at \ such a tour could not but prove ■■; unreraunerative. i An important Oommerolal La* suit < Christohurch, July 17. } A case of importance to the mer- > cantile community occupied j Supreme Oourt to-day. LAn ) injunction was granted to restrain 1 Arthur Briscoe and Co. from infring- ] ing the patent of the Washburn and | Niven Manufacturing Company in respeot of the manufacture of barb wire. The Company had obtained ' letters patent in the United States for machinery for constructing barbed ; wire, and registered the patent in this colony. Notwithstanding which, large shipments of wire made by their , prooess are understood to have been received in the colony. The decree . ' made by the Court inoluded orders *' • for (1) delivery by Briscoe and Co. of j" ; all the barbed wire in their possession ( } manufactured by the patent maohiney, 5 1 (2) for an enquiry as to the damage {< i sustained by reason of the sale and ! \ importation of suoh wire, as a number ]'[> of other merchants in the Colony have imported wire manufactured by tLe Company's prooess. The effeot . '' r ; of the injunction is likely to be far ' <'" reaching. / v ' "i