27th April, Mr. Harpoon has won his suit against the Municipal Council. By the judgment of the Court of Consuls rendered yesterday, it will be seen that permission has been given him as the owner of land adjoining the Yungzeenpang, and part owner of the creek, to obtain the necessary rights to culvert the creek and also to erect the boundary wall along the line of the Bubbling Well Road—two proposals which the Council endea-youred to prevent him from carrying into effect. The Court came tot: conclusion that while Mr. Hardoon's property will be benefited, the rights of the public will not be interfered with. At the same time the right of the Council, in its wisdom, to protest. against the proposal has been. sustained and our municipal representatives have not been mulcted in costs. Although and appeared to present many com-the case was gone into at great length plications, the main issues were extremely simple, and they have been dealt with in a judgment as brief as it is clear. To those who followed the arguments and evidence, the decision must have been foreshadowed, and it isa little difficult to understand how the Council came to take up the attitude they did. That they acted in what they kelieved to be the best interests
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