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Mr. Justice Channell further held that even if the connection
had been made without authority, the present plaintiffs, not being
purchasers for value, could get no higher rights than the original
owners had as against the public; and the pipe would still remain
a drain, as it was impossible to say that the wrongful act of the
owners could make the drain a sewer.
HOUSING.
The Council decided not to proceed with the scheme for the
erection of a block of dwellings on their land in Townmead Road.
plans for which had been prepared by the Borough Surveyor.
Houses Let in Lodgings.
The Local Government Hoard have expressed their willingness
to sanction some new bye-laws which have been framed to meet the
difficulty caused by the decisions of the Court of King's Bench in
the cases of Stiles v. Galinski and Nokes v. The Mayor, &c., of
Islington.
Certificates under the Revenue Acts.
Applications were made for certificates in respect of 487
dwellings, of which 304 were granted, 137 were given after
certain specified works had been completed, and 46 were refused,
REMOVAL OF MANURE.
Complaints were received respecting the nuisance arising
during the removal of the manure from the stables of the Star
Omnibus Company in Filmer Road and Grimston Road.
At these stables, both of which are in populous localities,
the peat litter was first placed in fixed receptacles and thence
transferred into vans for removal, and by the turning over of the
refuse a most abominable stink was caused. Proceedings were
taken by the C ouncil against the Company under Section 21 of
the Public Health (London) Act, which provides "that where any
building used for any trade or business causing effluvia is certified
to be a nuisance, proceedings shall be taken by the sanitary
authority, and if it appears to the Court that the trade or business
carried on by the person complained of is a nuisance, then, unless