316 LEGAL. [Feb. 



WALES. 



HERE we have been road-making, trenching, cutting underwood, 

 and thinning plantations, faggoting, etc. Tlie planting of 

 forest trees should, as far as possible, be brought to a close this 

 month, especially those of the deciduous tribe. Finish up the 

 thinning of deciduous plantations, and the cutting of hedgerow 

 timber where not already done ; as also the removing of the same 

 before the stools begin to break ; also clear out all open drains and 

 ditches, and put the fences iu good repair. Eenovate old hedges 

 by the planting of young plants in the gaps, having first loosened, 

 cleaned, and improved the soil by fresh compost, and cutting over 

 and breasting where necessary. Continue to plant young hedges 

 on well-prepared sites, and attend to fences of all sorts, tree guards, 

 and rabbit-proof netting. As time permits, continue transplanting, 

 and filling up of all vacant ground. Lewis Bayne. 



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EGAL. 



RAILWAY BATES FOB TEE CARBIAGE OF TIMBEB. 



GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. LOWE. 



AN" important test action, between a timber merchants' associa- 

 tion and the Great Western Eailway Company, has been 

 before Justices Grove and Smith, in the Queen's Bench Division, on 

 an appeal by the Great Western Company frum a decision of the 

 County Court Judge of Dudley. The respondents were Messrs. 

 Lowe, timber merchants, Dudley, and the amount in dispute was 

 £4, 10s., the difference between the sum charged by the Company 

 for the carriage of a consignment of timber trees and the sum 

 which Messrs. Lowe said they were entitled to charge. The Com- 

 pany were, under their Acts, authorized to charge for timber in the 

 form of trees by measurement instead of by weight, it being 

 enacted that 40 cubic feet of oak, mahogany, teak, beech, or ash, 

 and 50 cubic feet of any other timber, should be deemed one ton. 

 The difference between the parties had reference to the mode in 

 which the cubic contents should be ascertained, the Eailway Com- 

 pany using tape measurement, and the respondents contending that 

 string measurement should be used. One of the differences between 

 the two systems was that the tape took in all the protuberances of 

 the bark within its breadth, whereas the string went into the 

 crevices, thus making the bulk less. In ascertaining the quarter- 

 girth also, instead of, as in the tape measure, taking a fourtli of the 

 length, the string was doubled twice, and then measured. The 



