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land. The plaintiff brought the action for damages, and an injunction 
to restrain the defendant from cutting any of the branches. There 
was no evidence that the overhanging branches were likely to be 
dangerous to life or health. The action was tried by Mr. Justice 
Kekewich, who held that trees overhanging the land of another 
constituted a nuisance of omission, it being negligence on the part 
of the owner of the trees to allow them to overhang, and that the 
person who suffered from the nuisance was entitled to abate it, hut 
only on giving reasonable notice to the owner of the trees , unless there 
was danger to life or health. The object of the notice was to 
give the owner of the trees a fair opportunity of abating the 
nuisance while preserving his own property. The defendant had 
acted wrongly in cutting the branches without giving notice to the 
plaintiff, but the justice of the case would be met by ordering the 
defendant to pay 51. damages and the costs of the action. And his 
Lordship gave judgment accordingly. 
S. B. L. Druce. 
9 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, W.C. 
THE WINTER OF 1893 - 4 . 
The ruling element in the weather of last winter was the passage 
along our extreme northern coasts of large cyclonic disturbances, 
on their way from the Atlantic to Scandinavia and Northern 
Russia. As a result of these movements the United Kingdom was 
exposed to an unusually strong current of air from the south-west 
and west, with frequent gales, especially in the more western and 
northern districts, and with mild, changeable weather over the 
entire country. The only serious exception to the prevalent condi- 
tions occurred during the early part of January, when a strong 
easterly wind spread over our islands from Central Europe, and 
brought with it a brief spell of intense frost, accompanied in many 
places by gales and snowstorms. The weather appears to have 
been most severe between the fifth and seventh of the month, the 
lowest temperatures recorded over England at this time being 
shown in the second column of the table on p. 176. It will be 
seen that, with the exception of our north-western and southern 
counties (including the Channel Islands), the thermometer fell 
belowlO 0 in all parts of the country, and that in the Midlands it 
descended to zero, a lower point than any attained during the severe 
and prolonged frost of 1890-91. At several stations situated in the 
western and south-western parts of the kingdom the weather 
is reported to have been the coldest experienced for very many 
years past, and in some cases the truth of the statement is amply 
supported by scientific records extending over more than a quarter 
of a century. It may be noted in passing, that although the table 
fails to give any temperature below zero, there is evidence to show 
