LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. |BY TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Public Works. Auckland, Wednesday Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2112, 21 January 1886, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. |BY TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Public Works. Auckland, Wednesday Night.

Auciclvn'D, Wednesday Night. A deputation of the Ch unber of Coutmnce waited on the Minister of Public Works today, and repiesented the impoitanoa of continuing ths line via Penrosj. They also urged an increased number of trains on the X ii|>.ir:i railway and the opening of tlie Aroha railway. Mr ll'chauKon promised careful consideration. Itegaidin? the Aioli.i line he slid instructions hi,] been given to open the line Mvm as c»uld hi safely d me, provided salKfactoiy arran^oinents could ba made with the contractor. He hoped the line would be opened by the first of March. By the smid date he hoped the R)tuiUt<> line would be opened.

luauest. The inquest on the body of Fanny Ve^ey, showed that she was a hervant in the family of Mrs Paul, staying at Motuihi fur the holidays. She want bathing alone, and doubtless was accidentally drowned.

The Cambria Mine. The Cumbria Company has. declared a dividend of 5s per blure, and carried £3000 to the reserve fund. A telegram was received this morning, as follow*: — "Retwit on fire, Gl2B ounces amalgam." Later in the day a second telegrjm was received :—: — •'•130 loads, and 1000 His specimens crushed for 2641 ounces retorted gold."

I nportant Decision. An important argument was heard in the Supreme Court to d.iy, involving the question whether damages could be recovered for trespass of cattle on unfenced land. After hearing count-el, his Honour said it seemed to him peifectly clear what the intention of the legislation was with regard to section .">. The words used were so .specific that they could not be leasonably understood in any other way than what they repealed the 1 ight to recover damages in common law for trespass upon nnfenced hnd. The section provided that the owners of unfenced laud might impound fur tie>pas«, but tint they were not entitled to recover any damagei whatever, and this word "whatever" shewed that although they impounded they were noi entitled to recover damage* according to the beale in the first schedule, nor any actual damage as indicated in the ne\t section. Clearly the intention was that in casi of unfenced land the owners should recover no damages for trespass, while iv cases of fenced land the owner could either tak3 impounding fees or trespass rates, or, if ho chose, recover any actual damage sustained.

Accident. A two-year-old son of Mr Hew, grocer, fell fr >n> the back balcony of his father's house and fractured his .skull.