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before the Council very soon, it is fervently hoped that all the Unofficial Mem- hers of Council would lose no time in going through this Bill, a combination of two lengthy Bills, and meet together and discuss it clause by olause, allowing no tinkering whatever.
It has been suggested that a loan of $10,000,000 raised locally on silver basis at per cent. to u per cent. interest would suffice for the whole sale 'resumption of insanitary properties: and it has also been suggested that only a minor portion of this vast sum of money will be lost to the Colony, as a greater portion of it will be recovered through re-sales of the improved resumed areas. Taking it for grant- ed that half of this sum is lost, with the Colony's surplus revenue--$1,000,000 annually and with increased taxation, this loan will not take many years to be wiped off.—Yours, etc.,
AHMET RUMJAHN.
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, 9th June.
IN ADMIRALTY, JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THEIin Honours W. Meigh GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE) and, T. SERCOMER SMITH (ACTING PUISNE JUDGE).
TAI CHED G V. 'SKRAMSTAD." This was a motion for leave to appeal against the decision of the Lower Court in the Skram- stad collision case, in which judgment was given in favour of the Skramstad.
The nautical assessors wera Commander George W. W. Dawes of H.M. Naval Yard and Mr. Richard Unsworth, master mariner.
Mr. M. W. Slade, barrister-at-law (instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, of Messrs Dennys & Bowley, solicitors), appeared on behalf of the Tai Cheong; Mr T Morgan Phillips, bar- rister-at-law (instructed by Mr. G. C. C. Master, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, solicitors), on behalf of the Skramstad; and Mr. E, H. Sharp, barrister-at-law (instructed by Mr. V. Deacon, of Messrs. Deacon & Hastings, soli- citors), watched the case on behalf of the Perla.
Mr. Slade stated that before referring to the case he would ask their Lordships' permission to, if necessary, call a witness to prove the dis. tance from the Metropole Hotel to Braemar Point. As their Lordships would remember, the judgment of Mr. Justice Wise very largely turned upon the evidence of a first-class petty officer of H.M.8 Humber who stated that he was lying 100 yards from the hotel and from that point rowed to the ship. But as no evidence appeared on the notes as to the distance from the Metropole Hotel to Braemar Point he wished to call evidence on that matter.
Mr. T. Morgan Phillips said he objected ou principle to any further evidence being called. Their Lordships well knew that leave could only be granted on special grounds. He was not quite sure what evidence was proposed to be called, but he objected to it on principle,
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The Chief Justice said they had better go
until they heard something about it.
Mr. Slade, after referring to the appeal case Coghlan v. Cumberland, Ch. 91, c. 704, s'ated that the rules as to appeal here and at home were the same order 58, rule 4.
The Chief Justice asked whether it was his intention to argue upon the evidence and upon the decision of the Lower Court and then to bring tome additional evidencë ?
Mr. Slade replied that that was his intention. The Chief Justice also asked whether Mr. Slade had considered the question whether the Admiralty rules were the same as in other sppesis..
Mr. Slade said they were under the same
The Chief Justice remarked that he only mentioned these matters because he was not that they had had an Admiralty appeal since the Còdo. Under the Admiralty rules. Full Court had full discretionary power
evidence upon questions of fact. ade further submitted that he would he hoped successfully to show ons given by the learned Judge case in the Court below for the who judgment he found were untenable on the
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evidence; they were not in accordance with the evidence. If he showed that the reasons given by the learned Judge were wrong, the inference was that his Lordship had not properly treated the evidence and that his judgment was on- souud; and then their. Lordships would be thrown back upon 1 re-bearing of the evidence which was before them. Mr. Slade went on to discuss the evidence originally given in the case. The case continued on Tuesday and Wed- nesday.
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