'15th May. In_the interest that this case and the judgment in it recently delivered by the Court of Consuls have aroused, it has apparently been forgotten that the ease itself was before.the public eight years ago. On the 19th of May 1890 the then 'l'aotai, Nieh, drew attention to the injury dane to the Soochow Creek by the rubbish falling into it from Lot 112, and the Consul-General, Mr. Hughes, passed the complaint on to the Council. Mr. Macgregor, the then Chairman of the Council, replied that all precautions would be taken to prevent the injury complained of; and the publication of the correspondence woke up Mr. Browett, the owner of Int 112, who wrote in to the Council on the 14th of June, 1890, stating that he intended to fence in the portion of his lot used as a garbage yard. Mr. John Macgregor replied that the ground in question was a portion of the fore-
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