-398 LEGAL. [March 



THE ARBITRATION CASE BETWEEN LORD BLANTYRE 

 AND THE DUMBARTON WATER COMMISSIONERS. 



LOED BLANTYRE opposed the Water Commissioners two years 

 ago when they applied to Parliament for powers to take 

 the waters of Loch Humphrey and Loch Fyn to augment the 

 water-supply of the burgh, and latterly an agreement was come 

 to whereby he was to secure a large quantity of compensation 

 water daily. The Commissioners, in the prosecution of their new 

 water scheme, found it necessary to take certain land and to get 

 Avayleave for their pipes, and for this his Lordship claimed ■ 

 £7000, reserving his proprietary rights in the water. The matter 

 was referred, and went at once to the oversman, who has just 

 issued his decree arbitral. In this he finds alternatively — " (1) 

 That his Lordship is entitled to £50 in respect of the land 

 taken and the wayleave or servitude set forth in the statutory 

 notice served upon him, and for all damage to be sustained by 

 him by or in consequence of the works of the Commissioners 

 under his claim other than his claim for the rights or damages 

 on the assumption after mentioned ; and (2) that in the event 

 of its being admitted or judicially determined that his Lordship 

 had, at the date of the statutory notice, retained any right or 

 interest in the waters of Loch Fyn and Loch Humphrey, and 

 the streams called Loch Humphrey Burn and Duntocher Burn, or 

 any of them, and that he is now entitled to compensation in 

 respect of such right or interest, notwithstanding the provisions 

 contained in sections 9 and 10 of the Dumbarton Water Com- 

 missioners' Act of 1883, or either of them, he is entitled to the 

 sum of £3000, besides the said sum of £50, all with interest 

 and expenses." 



Distinction. — Mr. John Murray, Director of the Challenger 

 Expedition, and well known to foresters for his services on the 

 Executive of the late Edinburgh Exhibition, has had the degree 

 of Doctor of Philosophy, through merit, conferred upon him by 

 the University of Jena. 



Andrew Eoss, for fifty years a forester with Sir James 

 Dunbar in Nairnshire, and of very temperate habits, died last 

 month aged 108, and was laid in the same grave with his father, 

 who had died twenty-nine years ago, aged 109 years. 



