IMPORTANT DECISION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3039, 7 January 1892, Page 2

IMPORTANT DECISION.

THERnilwiy Commissioners recently made a bv-hvv. Nil. 13, which adowed theui to criminally prosecute auyone whose cattle strayed on the railway line, whether fenced or not. Thin has caused great conflict between the settlers along tho railway line a-nd the Commissioners, as not only were the settlors' cattle killed hy the tr.-uns, but) the iiWMtr< were also pr Kecnted hy the liailwav D'pi.rtiuei.t f r the tre-pa-s of fieir iatt i>, Tne w-t 1- vi mi the K.iipun lino d.t r ni'ict t>» r'si-t the by law. and vt'-t r.l.y Mr J ck-n P liner was letained t d-ti-nd J..hn M~D maid, a settler whose cat \: «er-killed, and who «a* -miiitnoner] in itvP .lc- O-'iirs. at H-l-nsvll- for his cattle tre-iasiner. Mi P.lmei contended tint tin- by- a v was nltr v re-, a- t w.is in cumrav -i ti hi t ■ -übsec-teiii 2 "I se.cti.ii Ifili if tii- P.n.! : c W v\< Act, ISS2, «n.l it was .1 o c .i.t arv t.i t io r.;cei.t deci.-i n of the late Mr Justice Glides under the ImpoundiiiL' A tas we I a< r.'P'iL'iiniitt.. tho Public W iiU- Ac , ISS». The B-Mirh diMnisseJ tlw c se dec ding th t the bv-law was uhra viro-', i.nd stated that f r the s.ifety of tli- trav -liiiik.' public the N, til way Department might u-fence the, line at Kiwiti as soon as p'swhlp. The elfeif. of tins decision wil' be in i t iuip.rta t 11 the whole of the sei'l r- al eg the r.ti.uav lines in New Zealand.-Star.