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ALLEGED RIVER POLLUTION AT LLANRWST. (Continuation from last page.) vious witnesses, a.nd ba should say that the amount of sewage discharged at t.he outfall would render the water thcrci unfit for drinking purposes. The deposit would), however, soon disappear, and a lit-do lower down he thought it would be quite possible that the w a tier would be perfectly safe for drinking* purposes. lie should certainly object to the water immediately below the outfall. He had 'heard the figures given by Mr Loooc.h, ar.d did not the per- centage of solids at all exoassive for river hl-io the Conway. He had received two samples from tho river, and the amount of solids was not more than the water was capable of talcing up and carrying from one point to another. The vary- ing numbsr of bacilli fcun.dinthe water merely indicated that sewage entered tho river at a cer- tain point. The nu,r;b-er was smaller as you ricarod the plaintiff's land. His Lordship: Do you call the number found thore small ? Wiii less said that, it was comparatively small. As the water did contain organic matter, be should not recommend it .tor drinkng purposes. Tho impurities he found were in su.gpcnSio,l1; thai) was to say, they would not pass through a liiter. If s&WAgo matter was oxydised, there would be nothing to deposit. Tho further bearing was adjourned.

TUESDAY S PROCEEDINGS VIEWS OF MEDICAL AND OTHRR WITNESSED. The bearing was continued on Tuesday. Dr. Thresher, further examined by Mr Mac- n.orran, said that one of his analysis of the J river water showed that a little sewage had got into it. Samples were also t-iiksn of the water ■ after it luid been stirred up, with the result that the analysis allowed the presence of considerably more or«panio matter. 'l'hero was also a certain amount of organic matter in ail river water where the water, as in caae, was well oxydised. oxydisat.ioii commencecf to take place immediately. From the presence of bacillus coli in the sample taken at the outfall showed that it was sewage by t-he number of bacillus coli it contained pointed to the jxnvage- having been diluted 100 times. The chemical analysis pointed to the dilution b?ing somewhat higher The average jiuniber of bacillus coli found in eewa-go was 1,000,000 per cubic centiractra Just below the outfall No. i it was found to be 1000, though the average for an area cf 150 yards below to EOOO. At the outfall there was always the danger of the sewage turning down in a mass, and there near the outfall it impossible to get a fair average sample. For that reason he always took samples some distance away from the sewer. Just by the sewer you might find bacillus coli in great numbers, and a sample taken a short distance to the right or lyft show practically none at all. Taking the figures as given en the chart they showed that if tN: rver had any now at all there could be ¡¡.oapPi"co,ah-Je deposit of sew- age matter. lIe did not think it was capable of causing any danger to people Jiving in the district. The access ty for purifying the sewage before it was sent down depended very much upon circumstances. Cross examined by Mr lilomcr, witness said that ijuestions of discharge of sewage must, neces- sarily depend upon loeai conditions. When tho sewage lirst came into tbe water it was not mixed up with anything 1000 times its own volume of water. His calculations were based ■upon a mixture of the proportion of one to 1000, and upon the sewage spreading. itself over the whole area of the water. Sewage would mix more quickly with the water if it was running' rapidly than it would if the water was sluggish. The effect of discharging sewage into sluggish water was that, you got a deposit. If the water absolutely stagnant, you got a very con- siderable deposit indeed The fact that the samples taken lower down showed less indica- tion of savage might mean that not all the sew, age had mixed w.th the water, but. at the same time ir. might. Sewage that deposited: would at tho bottom. In that case, there might be oonK risk from gas rising' to the face. He did not. think that drinking the water would seriously affect a cow. It was jserfectly true that water contaminated: with sewage mi^if. be a carrier of disease. Typhoid bacillus might live for 15 days in the water. What might affect man might not affect cattle, lie had written in a book published in 1901 that "it would be strange if what affected man did not aifcot cattle," but he 'had no evidence that it was. One side of a river was frequently more rapids than another, and of course, the greater volume would pass down where the flow of the stream was most rapid. In discharging a volume o sewage into water 1000 times greater than that volume under normal conditions, you might find sewage fungus. A heap of sewage matter under sewer No. 2 did not in his opinion necessarily indicate that e j her there was a greater aiiiount of sewage coming into the river tha.n he had teen kd to be'.oeve. or the now of water wa; !c-,j;. There might be oilier reasons for it. Five thousand bacijjus coli per cubic centimetre found in water would be a very largo (percentage. If such number was found in t.he pool by the pSaini.ifr* properly, it would show Hw, the aewagft was leas ,Ó!Jutoo there than -at was in rihe middle of 1J",1 river.- It showed that there was more sewage on that slide of the river than the other. It would show that th2fO wail rn-oro rewage- in this pool along ;1 I\ plaintiff's baruk than there was .in other parte of the river.. Re-examined, W.ituers said that t'h.e amount rf ;je>vage coming down afcer a flood would not by any meAns represent the ordinary flow of sewage. RECEIVE!) NO COMPLAINTS. Dr. George Lewis Travis, whooo.id that he had been engaged in research work a.nd medical official of health of the di itrict of Con- way. «ik'» be .had 'been nuv £ cail officer of health for the 'district in- which tihe.e sewers were situated for ever two ye-ar-i. It was iiis du.:y .0 receive complaints as to imperfect euni- tat.:cn or nuisance. lie bad received no com- plaintd wit-h reference to tho seweis in que: tion. Since the commencement of this action he had inadc a. careful'inspection of the river in the. neighbourhood of the sewers and jilaintiff's property. lie had failed '.o find any- thin K that could give rise to complaint. lie knew the stream that flowed into -the river A; tJrj spot, and bad. also examined that. That | stream flowed through the town. Mr Rosner asked what ,his stream bad to do with the (,3.,c? Mr TomMn said the witness wan going to tell the court what came into the stream. Ili-s Lordship asked whether it w&j the de- feadan^ oa^e that tihe river was p'ollut-ed by stream? He thought he said it was their that tilie rivor wad not jioiiuted' Mr Tondin &iid if it was c-iltown that there was some poll/ut.on- i. might- b3 necessary to aliow ihat fituch pollution came from the stream and not from tihe sewer. Witness then pro- oeec!«d to doxabo how various things were likely '.0 find Ureir way -;ir/o that stream, in- cluding tie wage. lie had, he said, visited the sewage oat fails. lie found tho vviter from sewer No. 1 running away with great rapidity, -and ten yard.; below there was drinking- water. From what be saw at' sewer No. 2 hie ca-rn/e to (the 'oormiiusjion Jliat the ^.y.rago; was ljemg efTee-tivoly carried >awa:y. Between the town and the tewer the ground was wooded, and therefore they coudd not have anythini'- tnore perfect. He oould not ¿.et.e2ta.;lV smell more Shan .en yards away from (d10 tArea.m. He examined the gravel bank on the plaintiff's sue.? of tho river. He had examined the }K>O!S to be> :foa-nd rn ,ih:1t bank, S-riid had .found no- thing objectionable. He had never found anv trace of sewage there. He examined' tho bed of the stream by Oid Bridge on May 24t.h. The lirst ixtint. he examined was above the bridge. The bed of the river was gravel throughout. The samples he tootk showed it to be pure gravel with very little deposit. The second place at- which he uotMt eamples was be- tween the mouth cf the stream and sewer No. 1. There was a little mud. The next taken ju t below sewer No. 1. and there they found gravel with a little sedi-menf. evenly distribu- ted over the bed. The river was quite clear c'll fthe way along. He d':d not know what the height of the river was on that day. What was the mature of tive sediment? — I do not kno .v. Whait did it look kke?—Like ordinary grave]. In answer to further queetioiLS, Witness said tha.t -he other samples taJceai lower down the riveir showed gravel a little mud. He m w nothing that. indicated s(\wa.in any quan- tity. He did not see a heap of sewage de- posit under outfall No. 2; in fact he did not see any deposit of sewage. He made an examina- '.ion of the land lying in land from the gravel bed., but could m t speak to trace of any fenoe. When ho was there he saw water running under pipe No. 1. He could not say wboiber or not. it ran underneath the for its whole length. In cross-examination, Mr Romer suggested that it ran under for a distance of two feet. Witness said that lie could not say, as he had never measured it. He had never seen the spot as shown in the photograph produced to him, though be had been there when the water was even lower than was shown in the photograph. With regard to 18 workmen's dwellings on the stream flowing into the river the District Coun- cil had had considerable trouble. The sanitary authorities bad tried to stop the draining of foul water from these dwellings into the stream. It was quite passible that foul matter might come from thero and get discharged' on to the plain- tiff's bank. When he examined sewer No. 1 on April 25th there was a considerable quantity of water in the river. Sewer No. 2 was submerged, and of course, was sewer No. 1. He did not then examine what wes coming out of the sewer. He did that in October. It was on that occa- sion that- he said that he saw the sewage going down for a short distance, and then everything disappeared to sight. He saw a slight swirl or eddy on that occasion, but that also soon disap- peared. He did not go down to tho end of the pipe. He had not tested the stream with corks. You were sufficiently near to see that the water was quite clear after a short distance' Witness: Yes, -(cya.rdr3 away frpm the-pipe. What happened &) the paper? Witness said ho saw no paper. Mr Romcr; But Jou tolcfcus you did just now Witness: From the inspection chamber- not from the end of the pipe. And you want us to believe that everything had djaappcarod. within ten yards Witness: Yc3. And you wish us to take your evidence in tho light of that evidence? Witness: Yes. Further cross-examined, witness said that lie did net know that the tip was not now being used. He was not giving his evidence a.s an expert. He was merely medical ofiiiccr of health. He gave his evidence merely a.s someone looking on. He intended to tako the samples in April 25th, but they had not got the bottles. They then proposed to take them on May 3rd, but they had to wait until the water had gone down. On May 26th he was tobphoncd to that the water had gone down. He took no samples 'from tho bottom of the river on October 10th. The 10th of October was the end of a long drought. AAed to explain why he took the samples at the end of a long flood instead of at the end of a long drought, witness said that he took his samples at the earliest possible moment that he could. He went there for the purpose of finding any trace of sewage if he could. He found none. His instructions were to find sewage if h could Those instructions were nor by let!.er, but by telephone. He went down the banks for the pur- pose of finding traces or sewage. He had seen on the plaintiff's bank, but one found that all over the country. He did not know that he saw peper every time he went there. He saw no trace cf sewage fungus. But that he knew that the sewers were there when he visited tho spot on October 10th he would not have known that there was any discharge of sewage there. No gulls there? Witness said he had never seen a gull there. Counsel referred to an outbreak of typhoid at a school at. Llandudno when wiine.-s lemarked, "We all make mistakes, Mr Romer." Mr Romer: And you have made mistakes ift this case. Witness said that if counsel would point out any mistake that he had made ho would at once admit it. He had had no complaints at Llan- rwst, and never had had any with reference to the sewage d:s^o;al. Counsel pointed to evidence of Dr. Eraser be- fore a Comtnics:on to the effect tlr-d (here was nuisance caused bv the.;e sewers in drv seaso is to a small ext.: nt. Witness fud he had spoken of the smell of sewage, but he did not agree that, there was any nuisance arising from those sewe-rs-not, even a slight nuisance in dry seasons. Jlo did nOt, agree that sludge formed in the- neighbour- hood1 of tho sewers in dry feasors. He did not know that there had boon complaints from water bailiffs as to the damage to lish 1 fe caused by these sewers. EVIDENCE OF A RIVER CONSERVATOR. Dr. Richard Arthur Pricha-rd. J.P., of Con- way, said that, he had lived in the -neighbour- hood for 40 years, and was weli acquantod with the river Conway. He WAS a member of the Board of Conservators, and p-ino? he had been a member he knew of no complaints with reference to this sewage outfall. Mr lsgocd Jones was him- self a member, and- so far as witness knew, Mr Jones had made no complaints. lie had certain- ly madie no complaints to witness. Witness had been to Llannvst to inspect the outfalls. He iiist went on September 3th. On that day the river was low. He looked at- both outfalls. He was able to go very near to the end of No 1. He saw them from both sides of the river. He was close enough to so? sewage coming' out of the pipe. Ho inspected the inspect.ou chamber. Atier leaving the outfa-ll tho sewage dispersed within a few yards. IIo inspected; tho bank be- tween the two sewers. He looked carefully, but saw nothing offensive. There was nothing in' the nature of sewage in tho stone3. He saw no deposit on tho bottom of tho river. That was when the river was low. He noticed that at one part the water was running under the pipe. Ho taw nothing in the nature of nu.sance. There was no nuisance that you could either see or smell. lie certainly saw nothing that could cause injury to health. He vis.ted the spot again last week when the river was very high. The river was subject to sudden changes. When the river was in flood the current in tho neigh- hourhoed of the outfall v. e-s very strong all over. On t-ne banks he found traces of what had once been a hedge. Cross examined, witness said that he was R Conservator of the Fishery Board for 15. years. He remembered a complaint in 1902 by a. water bailiff as to a now sewer coming into the river from the workhouse. The conservators thought that it should bo drained into tne town sewer. His idea was that the fewer opening>! there wcr into the river the better. It was the duty of the water bail'ff to report such a thing, bat, he did not know whether the bailiff reported that it was contaminating the river. He still thought the local authority cc-uld prevent, sewage irom being discharged into the river, out- after hear- ing the evidence in this case he d:d not think that it was necessary. In 1902 be. said this out- fall was dangerous to health, but bo bad changed his opinion since seeing it. Until recently he had never seen it. in 1902 he was acting on the report of Ole wati." bailiff. Cross-examined at cOTI5iderabJo length upen a report of a meeting of tihe Conservators w. t ness said that lire agreed that tho throwing" ox refuse into the river did create a nuisance. What he saw coming out of tho sc-wer was ordi- nary sewage. It was milky white in colour. Ho had never locked into a sewer before. It was discharged from tho smver into the current of tile river. He traced the sewage for some few yards, but after that h.3 dijd not know what becan:e oi it. He only saw it from the Anoaster side as the trees -prevented him from getting on to the bink on the plaintiff's side. Mr Wynne, who lived at Llanrwtt, said that be was an inspector of nuisano?s anct surveyor to the defendant Council, amd had held that post for twelve years. He had known tho district for same years before he was appointed inspector and surveyor. He bad; known the plaint.fi's land since 1881. When he first knew it it was used1 as a rubbish tip. He. remembered a hedge being on tho land. The sewers bad discharged into the river ever since he had been inspector, He had had no complaint whatever about t! cm. It waj his duty to inspect any nuisance in the district, and also to inspect the sewers. So far as bo knew the discharge from t.bo sewers had created nuisance. He had never heard of them creating any nuisance to the senses. He put the popularion of Llanrwst now at 2441. That was the result of a personal calculation. The number of water cloyr-ls draining into *ewcr No. 1 was 425 and into No. 2 12V, making a total oi 552. On September 22nd and 23rd,° he watched the outfall for the flow of sewage, and furnished the results to Mr Lccoek, who pro- duced them on a diagram. He watched through- out the niyiht. lie found no nuisance either at or below tb3 sewers. Below the sewers there was an extraordinary growth of weeds— beautiful weeds. He had examined the course <jf tho river, and the flow of the sewago from the outfall. Sewage was only traceable for about eight or nine yards from the outfall. There was a How of water under the pipes. It was shown from the photographs produced to him, one of which showed the water flowing under with a rush. His Lore'ship said ho did not understand that it was disputed that water did find its way under SDme parts of the pipe. Mr Macmorran said that he went further, and suggested that these photographs h >w a ;le-v, and a good How of water under the pipe. His Lordship said that it was perfectly i.Wh us that this pipe must offer some obstruction to the flow of water. Mr Macmorran' said that what had been jut against him was that below this pipe was some- thing in the nature of a, settling tank, the water of which was perfectly still. He submitted that these photographs showed that it was nothing of the kind. ° TESTING THE FLOW OF WATER. Witness continuing, said that he saw no eddy there. He had fished there, and had caught there. He had fished right down the plaintiff's bank. He had never seen anything in the nature of sewage thoic. He had never seen any accu- mulation of the deposit at sewer No. 2. He had been to the spot once since the action was com- menced. The water was low and clear, and he could sec to the bottom. He saw a pile of stones there—a "conical heap. Besides those stones there was no heap of anything at that spot. There was nothing in the nature of a heap of sewage as had been described. He had never seen lolli, deposit there at any time. He had made experi- ments for the purpose of testmg the direction of the BOiV of the water. He put in Beats-some through the manhole of the sewer. He had never known any of the floats to come back on to the plaintiff's side. He had traced them down 300 or 400 feet. He made the test several times. The river was subject to very heavy floods. The floods affected the plaintiff s land considerably. They had 12-foot floods four or six times a year, and that would submerge the plaintiff's land to a,depth of about- two inches. Cross-examined, witness said he had no degrees or diploma. He called himself a surveyor be- cause he was appointed ore. Without any qualification? Witness said ho had had considerable expcr- ience in the building lino. The ease was nothing to him personally. In days gone by people used to tip their refuse in the tip on plaintiff's land. Sir Thomas Williams, who was the tenant of the property gave them considerable leave. He knew they got leave because he had lived there for 30 years, lie got leave himself. The tip was now partially covered with grass. He did sug- gest that tipping went on there now—above, but not below. It was house refuse that was tipped there. It was his duty to report nuisanoes to the District Council. He was a servant of the Dis- trict Council. He should report to his own cm- ployers that they were committing a nuisance if he thought, that they were doing so. He did not report anything about the sewer from the work- house discharging into the river. There were a number of water closets decided on 1)1; the Feb- ruary meeting of the Council that had not yet been connected with the sewers. He had no note of the dates on which he put the floats into the river for testing the flow of the tide, and could not say what the condition of the river was at the time. He bed seen the water higher above the pipes than it was below it. He tried the river en Monday, the 7th, when it wa¡¡like that. 'That was after he had heard the plaiintlff's evidence as to what was taking place there. He tested that time with apples. The river was in flood. He had never suggested that there was a. conical heap of stones at the sewer outfall to anyone because ho had never been asked. It was thero now, and came to within two feet of the surface orf the water. Tt had always been there, but ho did not call it a conical heap. He had put a stick into them. The stick did not go in easily. He had others with him when he saw the heap on November 7th, but- he did not know that the others saw it. There was four feet of flood there at the time, and sewer No. 2 was entirely submerged. There were six or seven present at the time. He had never seen anything like the samples of sludge produced by the plain- tiff taken at the spot in question. You oould get stuff like it higher up the river.

YESTERDAY S PROCEEDINGS. COUNCIL MEMBER'S EVIDENCE. CLOE OF THE DEFENCE Mr Justice Parker in the Chancery Division yesterday continued the hearing of this action, Mr Wynne, further cross-examined, said that on every single occasion that he saw it the sow. age from No 1 sewer was going straight down the stream without any deflection or any holding up. The pace might alter slightly, but it was always going down. He could not say whether the river was tidal or not. The sewage might be hehl up when the tide was coming up. Mr Romer: Then your answer to me just now was untrue? Witness said it was not. He had never SOCVJ it held up. But you have been there every day? Witness said that was so. He lived in the town in 1882. but. was not then a member of the locid Counci!. What he had said with reference to the construction of tho sewer at that time was simply from what he had observed. Though ho had nothing to do with it he could say after all these years that one pipe was a 12-inch pipe, the other- were 9-inch. He had no special reason for remembering it. Re-examined: He had fished the river, and for that purpose had fihing" tickets, but he had never asked leave of Mr Isgoed Jones. There was no water on Mr Jones' land. Mr Thomas Griffon said thai he lived at Llan- rwst, and was in the Gwydr Estate office.- He had been there for 19 years, first as an assis- tant, arid he was now in charge. He knew the river. The keepers whose duty it. was to look after i ho part in question was Thomas Hughes. At one time tho river on both sides formed part of the Gwydr Estate, including Pcni32\d,c. In answer to the Judge, Mr Macmorran said ihat- the object- of his questions was to show that for many years Lord Aneaster had let the fishing right? over the whole of the river. He wanted to show from this witness that Lord Ancestor granted fishing rights over the river on both sides. Further questioned, witness said the (state had always exercised rights over the shoal by send- ing a keeper to examine the fishing there. He did not hitnsdf know of any fence on the plain- tiff's land. In 1908 they prevented Mr Wynn from taking stones from the shingle. Cross-examined: He had given leave t" fish over the whole river. Leave was given by ticket, but h. had not. one of the tickets in court. Tho liccncc, did not give leave specifically to fish the plaintiff's side. Nothing was specifically men- tioned. To his knowledge the estate did not. pay any tithe in respect of the bank on tho plain- tiff's side or receive any rent in respect of it He had never been asked permission by anybody to go over it. Mr Jones' cattle went down to the bank to drink, but Mr Jones never asked for permission for them to do EO. Re examined, witness said the tithes were paid generally. A fishing ticket was produced, and Mr Romer remarked that it was an ordinary fisbrg ticket, and Mr Macmorran said that it gave a general licence to li-h in the River Conway. "FAVOURABLE CONDITION OF RIVER." Mr Prod. William Hugbss, who lived at L'e.nTwst, saild that he was -a J. lor 0:> County of Denbigh, and member c.r.^ chair- man of tbe local Council. He ihad lived at Llanrwsl for 36 years. He actuary lived n-ee.r the l iver, and had d-oao <so for 30 years. He was only a. field's length lie was ap- pointed member of the Sanitary Committee in 1900. He was acquainted with tbe pJcint-iiT's land, .and knew well the of grave). That bad bon to his knowledge- used -as a rubbish tip. Between the gravel bank and the plain- tiff's land, there wero the remains o £ an old hedge. There was also an 02d embankment there. The reiruvins of tlie hedge were on tho river side of the embankn>cnt. He was well acquainted with the river and its banks. He had never noticed anything in conBcc- with t'nes: sewer.a giving cause of complaint. He had watched the condition of the river all along the plaintiff's side, and had never no- tiord anything objectionable either by einell or otherwise. He was not Qtimself a fisher- man, bat had s-cen a good, many ILs-brrxn-rn all (\lü:2£; the bank by the plaintiff's property, lie. bad himself seen the tide come up the river as iar as the bridge. Cro~s-exemined: His property was lower down-'the river than that of Mr Jones. The iLeld between his house was a long held, and his house might be a quarter of a mi'e away from the river. The feM between bis bouve and the river odjoined Mr Jones' property. He had e:en people fishing in the river from .his house. He could not eay whether from his lioxice he could see the land lying between tewer No. 1 and sewer No. 2. The tipping -n the river was on the south side of the stream, and had referred to. Ho had walked along- the plaintiff's bank pi-ior -to the om- mc;ncen:Mit of the action. Since he 1x.!1 ther e for the purposes of the attioTi. He was there on April 12th. The weather was not then vet. He could not say whether or not the eewer was out of the water. That was the only data he could give. Asked whether be been since the drought, witness fsaid that he believed he went there in September. On that- occasion hr stood and watched the eewer for a few minutes. He saw æwagoØ come out and drop into the river—a drop of two or three inches, —and then flow down the river. He did not notice any of it going up the river. Th water was very still." The water was e1-<'• on that occasion, though he had !t cloudy. He walked <a!l along the bank be- tween sewer No. 1 and sewer No. 2. He wov'd not«way that it was quite clean. K0 d-'d -ot mean that be had seen the tide coming uo but he had &oen tlie tide holding the wut'- up, and .the water hacking up. He had'^e -n that many times, and bed noticed it on both sides of the river. He would not pkdge his oath tnat he had seen that state of i 'lino* more than once <a year. Mr Thomas Rogers; Jones sp-id 11 lived at Llamrwst, and carried on business of auction- f.'é'T .ad v,u:eor.< H.e Wa.s !Q. mo:m.h:"r of tll(, D'llb!g.h.s.h1ro (unty Counil and .d.so Ú' -t.,f.P1è:d.nt C{)unI1, He had nc\l' IH'<1rd a.¡lY üomp,:tlllt "b()uv toh: &0W.('s. H.11".rJ "11'd ,a.O!l< bth b:mks m:ny tiillA<' H-'h"a- ;J' 'L L'' ',t >u n-CVC'f :noOv:,ücd.anj lJllng ofl'l(?Jli:;t ve to '(.it.h, s:ght 01' ;};nE';) lêlthr:>r a.long th. banks 01' in th, ri V'l' Smc<J .tha comm:>llocm-e.nt of tbl(' tl<t.iml he> ù.d 'CX::l,d the banks or tJl'20 pkilltiff' :,i ('r'é'IU,:Jj" 1hads.coCn nothing in thenatur.' .01 \w.a,ge, .at.Uf'r {)Jl tho hanks or 1ioat>n th.e rIno'l'. He hadlooke"J )'n t11" 19 ,J.'1 u. c J.l ''P1Til'' 3: not ,bc.eI?- abl:e to £>[.3 :m.thjng. He -ll';â. ;n !1th1llg ,m tho natm of .a clC'I)<J.:j ()O[ fL:.(' 6'ton': lbe wa"r>r ûf tho flver \3, <.i: :¡ t"I'o(J' and you e'Ldd the bc..tt')1ll, Hú :a1: 'r¡Jbe- et );'Ø !œal auth.orit.yi;n Iff,n. iI .hn.d f:luen d:.e tide oomrn<g 'Up ma;IJY tim.> A,1 .hO\' hrgh l ca'lc. W'lt.I1<e3S :>:t:d t:hoat. ¡, h:1Cl S08n it í1"t.lll tDe .C¡¡lLroh very ofte Ú 1:c:1d r¡.3'(:¡- 5130'11, an.rthJ,ng in ti10 riv.r (). en II: ba:J.1Œ t.ha.t cou.;ù prcJud'iually afr02{t:, tht' 'pln: 1:.1,11, p1'o!rl.v. r Ic knew 1.h<3 PWpc.rty v>ery \.<1. 1: <11 t, 0- Jt wa>. &ubjœt to flood:' bat PTt of JI had a. bu¡d'JH "tJ.ue'. Tht p1't\ as t.he part nearest to t.hs St.:1 tion,ro3.d. J.(',l:ng mor. !;Ie w r'Ú>t 4 fis'h0a;w..n. C !'C't'eX:.1Hl.1f1od: ,h, 6aHI '!J'e. (}'1d ('I tlù more ,.ha.n "n-d-e 1J.f01Æ,rt). Tho(} J::tSt PTon.ed:v h .oJd was 1:11. August Jil.3--t. '1110 lQp"cÎ; at M 1': fiFf:t C1.:n to ,tih,() ,riv,e¡', d "h '6reLJ L.,a.t <1 hy-ùGO were ;l:Jtt {,,¡, tb. 13.1)('( 1,t wo:¡J-d \'e,y meo to a.. g'I.d.n l'in,¡j u' .o\a, t.o tf'1), rlver. 1I <-hod not. 1;GIVoCH'f, :.<)W It <<dd. i: <k>ne 'be'e. \b-('ll he .}aid 't.e 11".1 i'V:\¡¡JK;'<lllilg' tilat 1l'Oul l)r0j'udicaiv aJít tl10 p.am 3 propørty ho dNl 'not t:hin;l\. tr1'lt. one or two .oJ ;Üwag-oe alOJ.l'g" tho ba'nk WQwd. ù,? &D. ben ho s:¡ w t,he r¡ cr l"UIln:¡¡'T U'í} he d'lt! nvc, -c-c tho :e\'ag-o runnmg urp. 1 h, sun- p:e-d rJ1'C ¡:;ÜW1't'ge <lrCijA¡.>8d <1Dwn. 8ù'A1a.lTo:) .l' way.> orc.p¡x.d down. And thai would bo tlie case at. No. 2-eeww?- Wibnojcu: Certainly. Re examined: lie had never seen anv l-u^ of se>r;(.go on the bairaks. Mr Hvp.y John Wywtt Watkin, ,auotion«>r and vauier, of Wirw.yt, J.P. 0f Denbigh and cbaj.rma.nr of tbe oeuonda-ut Council, siij ho Lai been a member of the Council for about ton years. He had seen the river frequently since t^o 'oammenoomen.t of the aotion, buifc had not water.od it very carefully. Ho had not. been on Lae plaintiffs bamk. but be bach boon on the Anaast-er bank, and he had never econ anything objectionable. He considered tho river tidal. He considered (the plaintiff's land. jiTjpoosib.e for building purposes. lie was on t no A near;-or bank on Saturday last, and sa w that part of the plaintiff's land wiaa under water. OTOSJS^examined Witness could nn say how many auctioneers and' valuers thero were in Llanrwst. He could not say when last ho had bean concerned in laying out an citato for building -purposes, but lie oould give the namo of Ü. Ho was a very large ratepayer i:n the district, and nacurally was anxioua that not more expen -e should bo incurred thjam was nc- cessary. Mr Blaoktnoro also lived at Llanrwst, and was also an auotkmoer and valuer. He "said he knew the river woll, and had. oftron fished it. HiJ brother had a fish- ing right higher up. He had fished" the riveT •at tbe spot in. question. Ho wiadod. From the outlet of sewer No. 1 it was practically all wading ground. He bad seen tide in (iho river. There was a considerable stream by t-bo sower outfalls, both on the Aneaster aide and the plaintiff's side of the river. Ho ha.d never seen anything ia the river which he considered ob- jecftiandble. He ha.d been right '.I.P to No. 2 outlet when fishing. He had beerl frequently firiiir-ig tbere. He bad seen tbe discharge from that sewer into the water both before and sineo (the cornnnenoementt of tlie action. At f.ew^'r No. 2 he had never Ûil any deposit on the river bed. On an oooarion wfaen a child was drowned, when looking for the body, he walked one day in every part that was wade- able, and on the next day took a boat to the parts that he could not reach the previous day. He had frequently got on the gravel bank bet- tween sewer No. 1 and sewer No. 2. He had noticed no deposit there and had never noticed any objeetional smell. For some time he lived at the Brewery at Llanrwst. Thst was the next property to Mr Jones'. While there he never noticed any smell coming from sewer No. 1. Cross-examined: While fishing he had been quite close to No. 1 and had never noticed any smell there. He usually went to the river for the purpose of fishing, and would not go v.hen there was no chance of catching fish. He had never said that the fishing at the pool bad owing to the pollution caused by these sewers. Asked whether he was aware of it he said he had no recollection of saying anything of the kind. When looking for the body of the child he would naturally be hurrying from place to place, but noted the condition of the river and the river bed. Mr Harold Mills, a resident cf Llanrwst, said he rcs;ded just above where the stream joined the river. He bad lived there all his life. He knew the gravel bank and had been on it thou- sands of times. As a boy he had played thero. They used to play upon all parts of the gravel. He \25 never turned off, nor was any complaint made of their using it. He bed never at any tune seen filth on that gravel or anything that a detriment. ( ro s examined He was 27 years of age. Ho a photographer and had taken prizes for pnotography. He had taken several photographs of th;) river which were produced. He was an amateur photographer Mr Latimer Jones asked him to take th A photo- graphs, but did not tell him where to plant the camera or on what day, to take them. He took, he thought, 72 altogether, and handed them all over to Mr Jones. Th ? 24 produced were a selec- tion not made by the witness. CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEWERS. Mr Edward Mills said that he bed resided at Llanrwst for 42 years. He had been acquainted with the river during all that time. He was a member of Sanitary Committee in 1886, and before that t me he had been a member of tho Council. At the time he was appointed a member of the sanitary authority Mr Jones was also a member. He remembered the construction of the No. 1 sewer in 1891. It was inspected both by Board of Trade and the Local Government Board. During the whole of the time he had resided at his present house he had never expe- rienced any nuisance or annoyance from the sewer. He had never seen anything unpleasant whatever upon the shingle. He had had occa- sion to go on the shingle. Ho had never heard any suggestion of a deposit of filth upon that shingle until this action was brought. So far as his own observation went, there was no such deposit of filth. He had seen part of the plain- tdFo land used as a rubbish tip. It was the part- adjoining witness' property. He should say it was so used for 18 years. The land opposite his property was frequently covered with water. He bid seen the tido come up the river on several occasions. He had also measured it under the old bridge. It was q inches. He could not say how many times he had seen the tide rise there, but thought once or twice a year. He had never seen anything in the river or along the banks that coulci prejud-Cially affect the plaintiff's pro- pprty. Cross-examined: The occasion on which he measured the tide was in 1891. Tho tipping had not ennre'y oca-red on lbs sk!js of the stream., H.s children played on bo.ii sices of the stream but more on his side and then, mostly in tho sum- mer. He did not know that the ciirell from the tannery v-as strong; it was certa'-nly not offen- sive. He lived in it for 25 yeers. There was no refuse from tho tt";ntry excopt. grease and water. Tho only thi-n't, t-hey tipped was the spent-bark from the t-an pit.?. There was II notice put up by the pla'ntifi forbidding tipping on the banks, but he did not know that there was any such noticei.at tbe bridge signed by either the clerk to the Council or the clerk to the estate. So far as he knew no one but hin.self gave leave for tipping. Reexamined: He had •seen the iuVe on n.any oora-sions come up the liver "'hen it had not come up so far as the biidge.. On a great many times he had seen it come up as far as PTC No. 1. His tannery was within 100 eras 1:0,11 the outkt. of the pipe. When the tipping t'K)I, place on the gravel bank he gave the people bavo to come through his lodge. lie dù not claim the gravel as his property.* :\11' Join Rchard Jones, veterinarv surgoo-n, practising at Llanrwst., said that be had been in practice there for 6 or 7 yearo. His r.ractioe extended a.mcnget the farmers and he had ex- perience of oattie and oaltb complaints. Ho was. acqua ntod with tho river and tHe plaintiff's land. lie had passed along he banks several times d'lir.n.g the last summer. He had seen nothing in the water to indicate the presence of sewage. He did not eee anything in the water and would make it objeetional drinking water for cattle. He knew of disease whatever amongst the cattle t.ha.t was ntributable to their dnnki.n-g the water. He bad. never seen on s/ioal by the plaintiff's land anything that was ofien- s.ve cr objectionable. He had been on the ba.nk on several occasions. Ho bad never &oca**ny sewage on the bank nor had he detected nny offensive smell tnero that was at all likely to oause injury to cattir. Cross-examined: He did not there for the purpose of looking to fee whether there was sc-wage or not. lie would be there to look at the cattle. When he spoke of ther being nothing injurious to cattle in t.ho river he was speaking of what he saw. "ABSENCE OF OFFENSIVE SMELL." Mr George Jones whose evidence was interpre- t.ed by Mr Thomas Evans Morris, said that ho lived at Llanrwsl and was the tenant at Pcnysa'rdre. lie had been tenajit 12 years the same time as Mr Jones the plaintiff's. Ilis tenancy extended clown to the r.t::>r. There were railings on the river-side, which he put. to prevent the cows from going away. Thev wore a little way from til so river, on the cob, as they called it. gome of the railings were removed so that the tows coulJi have access to the river. Mr Mclntyre objected, 'and onhs objection the rails were moved backward to the place they wore now. lie had seen people fishing in the river there but did not know himself whether they had licences. His cattle went into the river and he had himself seen them standing in the river. They were alwaya in tho river in hot weather. They drank the water of the river, .and he had never known any disease caused by their doing so. The sewer No. 1 had never been ianv nuisance to him. He had never noticed any smell from it. He bad never f-ee-n en tbe shingle anything that he thought could have come from the sewer. He had never seen on the shingle bank anything offensive to either sight or smell. He knew where sewer sewer No: 2 cameinto the river. He bad never been annoyed by smell from that. When he had seen the eewer, bo had never noticed anything offensive coming out of it. He had never discovered anything that could cause a nuisance to his land. He had never seen there anything that had come from tbe pipes. The tide at sewer No. 2 was a little slower than it was at other parts of the river. From newer no 2 the current en down towards Conway. He "had seen the river rising there. It "was not exactly a tide, but a sort of backing. He had 'seen it rising above the bridge, ard bad had to co back in oore-e<|u.eno?. He could not say how often. He had not taken particular notice. Asked whether there were fish on both sides of tbe river,witness said tha.t lie had been told there .are,but be had never seen them. He had beard, however, that pecp'e caught them. lie had never seen any dead fish in tbe river, with the exception of on one occasion, when 'they were throwing earth over the bridge. H-e had never seen the river dirty. He had seen •refuse put upon the land there. It was ür- dinary house refuse. It was used to level up the itand. There was a great quantity of it al- together about 20 loads a week. That did smell. It was a very bad smell sometlm.es There was a drain from Penisa'rdre down to the heap. It discharged into tbe heap. The heap 01 refuse and the discbarge from dram wero much nearer to Mr house than the The tipping was rot going on because Mr Jones stopp.-d him He never put lime on the heap, but he had put earth and grass on it. That would be when it got up to a certain level. Mr Jones gave TI-O reason for stoppin? it. Cross-examinicd He had never seen filth or anything offensive on any one of his fields. He put the fence up to stop the cows from going away. There were two meadows, and the object of the fence was to prevent the cattle from the one mixing with the cattle of the other; but it was also to prevent them going away. He did not pay anything to Lord Aneaster for Iris cattle drinking iif tne pool. He paid nothing except to Mr Jones. He first asked Mr Jones whether be should put tuie fence right across the river, and Mr Jones told bim to ask Mr Maclntyre. Mr Maclnt.yre said he might put it half across but afterwards told bim to stop it. H often wont down to the river almost every day m the .summer-time, to look after bis cattle* Fe bad seen paper on bis land but it- WGS clean/ Mr John Pilchard Jonc-3, the son of the Hist witness, said that be knew tbe river that past his father's fields. He had occasion to go there often. Ho had never seen anv accumulation of filth upon the banks. He bad never anything offensive there. Ho knew the sewer outfall. He had seen any deposit of sewage or filth there. He had never oeen anything like a heap of sewage in tho river. Between sewer No. 1 and eewer No. 2 the current was swift, though it wa,a little more still on their side of the river. He had never seen any back-wash there. He bad never noticed any offensive smell in the river. The rubbish heap that waa carted (OD to tho land by bis father's house bad been offensive. That heap did at times contain Sewage. Eo bad seen people fishing from his side of th? river. He had never seen them catching fish, but be had seen them rising there. He had never seen anything in the nature of a deposit- on the bed of tbe river. Cross-examined: He helped his father in his business and was at work most of the day. When he went to the river it was for the purpose of looking after the cattle and not for the purpose of ceding whether the river was clean or dirty. His father was stopped from tipping by Mr Jones, but Witness did not know that it was because his father WAS tipping offensive matter there con- trary to Mr Jones' express instructions. Mr John Janes said he kept a restaurant in 1 Llanrwst He had lived iu Llanrwst all his life, and was a fisherman. There was a good pool for fishing frcm sewer No. 1 down the river. He had fished from the plaintiff's side abng. With a ticket he bad fished both sides of the river. He had recently caught fish in between sewer No. 1 and sewer No. 2 on the plaintiff's side of the river. He had never seen in the bed of the river anything that was offensive. He had stood on the sewer and fished from it, and had never smelt anything Mr David Thomas Hughes, who lived at. Llan- rwst, sod he remembered making the drain in 1882. He did not, see an old drain there at aTI. I The drain he made was carried straight into the river. Cross-oxsmincd: He could not say how much I he was paid for making the drain. It was more than f21 ISs. He paid more than that for material. It went through two meadows and across Station-road to the manhole. He did not see an old drain. In accordance with the contract he had with the local Board, it was not to drain into the old sewer. It was to be a new sewer altogether. He dug it right into the river, and in digging it he did not come across any old dmin. He did not see one. One pipe used was a foot and the others were 9-inch. The one-foot p pe was in the meadow next the river. He had been employed by the Board on other occasions. He made a manhole near Victoria for them. He knew that it was 28 years ago by the receipts which were still in his house, but he did not bring them with him because ho did not think they would be wanted Re~exammed.- He did not make any other drain for the Board, FISHING RIGHTS. Mi- Thomas Hughes, water keeper to the Earl of Aneaster for the last 25 jcars said that he knew well that part of tho river that was oppo- site to the plaintiff's property. He had known it all the 26 years he had been there. As keeper to the Earl of Aneaster he watched that. part of the river. He watched it on both sides. He challenged persons who lie found fishing. He had never known permits to fish this part of the river. being given by anyone but the Earl of Ancasie- or his agents until last- summer. Last summer he found that Mr Jones, the plaintiff, was giving permits. He found two boys fishing with Mr Joiies' permits, and he reported it. Be- fore last summer he had never known anyone else te give permits. He had never noticed sewage or filth of that kind cn the banks of the river. He usually went down the river by the shingle. He would go down on one side ana back by the other. There was no back- wash at- the sewers, but there was something like an eddy. When the sewage came in the water was clouded, but beyond that cloud the river was clear, and you could se^ the bottom. He had never seen any heaps of filth at the bottom of the river or on the plaintiff's land or on the banks on his side of the river. lie had never noticed any offensive smell from the river. Cross-examined: It was a good place for eels—eels were always attracted by dirty water. He had Ix>rd Aneaster's permission to give -evidence in this Lord Are aster had never oaked him what evidence he was going to give. « Presold 'by Counsel, witness said he told Lord Aneaster what- evidence be was to give when he permission, but Lord Al1- easter did cot ask bim. Witness denied that, be &aid that he could give evidence for both I sides. He had never told Mr Malek that he could give useful evidence for tbe plaintiff, but be did tell Mr Malek that be could not give evidence for either without asking hie "boss." His "boss" him to get cut cf giving evidence for either side if be could. He was served with a subpoena when his "boss" toid him he would have to go. He looked alter about 14 miles of When ho found anyone fishing without permission he reported them. He did not often find fishing without leave, but it would be more than or five a year. He knew the water bailiff of the Conservancy—Roberts. Roberts had often spoken to him" about the state of tho river, but had not complained about it being polluted. He had, however, complained about sewage coining into the river. Roberts had been counting the drains in the neigh- bourhood, but witness did not know why. He did rot- often see Roberts. Mr William John Williams, member of the Denbighshire County Council, J.P. of Dcn- bigh&bire, member of the Conway Conser- vancy Board, and .at one- time a member cf. the Sanitary Committee of the- local Council, lid that at the time he was a member of the Sanitary Committee, Mr Jones was a member Tbc-y selected the eite aow-er No. 1. Cross-examined He was a draper, and Mr Jones wae. chemist, and the third member Mr Mills, a tanner. While he was a member of the Conservancy Beard there were objections to the sewage from the Wcrkbouse going into the river. That concluded the evidence for the de- fence, except for the purpose of putting in some formal documents, and th.e further hear- ing was adjourned until to day (Thursday).

FESTINIOG BO Alii; OF GUARDIANS. THE FINANCIAL. STATEMENT. CONTROL OF EXPENDITURE. Mr O. Joke's presided at a meeting of the Guardians of the Fcstiniog Union on Tuesday at Minffordd. The attendance included Mrs Morris, Mrs Oasson, Messrs E. J. Hughes, T. Griffith, Robert Richards, G. Parry Jones, John Hughes, Robert Williams, D. Tegid Jo nes, Edward Llewelyn, Morgan Jones, J. Williams, William Williams, D. Fowden Jones, E. M. Owen. Evans, J. Roberts, Trawsfynydd R. W. Vaughan, together with Mr T. Roberts (clerk), and Mr D. Jones (assistant clerk). THE HOUSE. During the week 16 tramps bad been re- lieved. as.compared with 32 during the cor- responding week last year. A vot/cf thanks passed to Caerwyson for delivering an in tarcsung lecture t.o the inmates. ° BOOTS FOR PAUPERS. Cares of applicants for relief .in kind were considered, and Mrs Casson proposed that the applications -liould not be granted. The jiaupers were quit? able to do some work and to earn momey to enable them to buy ehcacs. The proposition, however, was not seconded, and later on enother application for boots was received. Mr Ov, en propoeed, and Mr W. Williams seconded, that the application be allowed. Mrs Casr-xm proposed that the boots be given, but that the relief be reduced 43 a week i-ntil the cost of the booh had been paid. A.s this proposition was not seconded, Mr Owen's proposal! was paaoed. REFUSED OLD-AGE PENSION. It. was reported that an aged woman in the F-estiniog district lefus.d to appiy for old age pension, preferring to remain as a pau- per. It was resolved to continue the out-relief. STONE-BREAKING PROFITLESS. A discussion took place as to the best way of disposing the stones broken by the casuals in the House. Mr G. l'arry Jones: We must pay 3s per ton carriage it we send tKem per rail. Mr Tegid Jones: And we can .get them at Trawsfynydd for IV, lid per ton delivered. Mr Fowden Jone-s: It is useless to continue breaking the stones. The Master 'Ihe stones cost Board 3s 9d per ton, end if Hold for 4s 3d the profit would only be Gd per ton. The matter was left in the hands of the Mas- ter to make th.3 best he could in getting rid of the stones. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The report for the post ha f-year shoved that 119" paupers had received s-uppoiT, as compared with 1156 for the previous half-year. Tire officers had collected £124 from relatives of paupers. There was an incrcaoe of £291 in connection with the Asieesment Committee: in consequence of tho re-valuation of the Union. During the next half-year, Uie county and education rates would absorb = £ 8499, showing an increase of .£ó;H..£3787 would be rè: quired for general purposes, making a total expenditure of .£10,Z2ü. The average sum spent was 17s 2,d per head of the population. Festiniog contributed £11,000 towards the total amount expended during the year. Tlie amount paid to the Treasurer The maintenance showed an increase of .£38, and the in-door receipts showed a decreased .£13. During the last half-year, the number of inmates averaged 701, and tho average cost5 of each inmate was 6s 7¥!. Out-door paupers cost £ 436X, it being a decrease of £ 7fi. Iu Tremadoc district, there were 298 paupers, tho cost of maintenance being £971; Fes-i tmiog district, 471, an expenditure of .£1402; I>eudraeth., 284, the cost of maintemeooe being

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£876. Tbe expenditure in connection with non-resident paupers was JE129 children kept in certified homos, £36; lunatics (45), .£494 niedical officers, £137; relieving officers; £13:3; loan account, J8324. The demands pajd by the parishes amounted to £ 13,050. 'Ilia Chairman, in making observations 04 the financiail statement, said that, in his apin* ion, it was very satisfactory considering tbe state of trade 'in the Union. It should be particularly noted that cent, only of tbe amount collected by the Board went to wards the maintenance of the poor. Sixty- eight per cent, was going towards county anti education purposes. During the year, tbe Board oolkcte:! for tho County Council £14,D3a, and £9101 towards poor-law expendit turo. The Board had no control over thl £14,.931, this being the coilections only oa behalf of the County Council. Mr R. Richard?; We have no voice in thi expenditure of practically £15.000, and spo Ó,3J. notice should be taken of the fact. ) always understood that taxation should haŸ, representation. THE CENSUS. A letter was received from the Registrar General in regard to the forthcoming.census The Guardians were asked to make the neoa sary arrangements.