The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

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WATER.RATES ON COTTAGE PROPERTY.

-,Yesterday, at the Police Court, before T. Chilton,
Esq.,. and C. J. Corbelly, Esq., Mr. Henry Rook and a
large number of owners and tenants of cottage property
were summoned for non-payment of water rates.
Mr. M'Gowen appeared in support of the summons
against Mr. Rook, and stated. that the case had been
twice before'the bench already;and had been adjourned
for the purpose of enforcing the attendance of Mrs.
Phillips, who had been tenant of the house in question
at the time the rate was laid. The question was, what •
was the annual value of the house. Mr. Rook had on
oath stated it to be one sum, and the collectors were
informed it was more. Mr. M'Gowen, who had now
secured the attendance of Mrs. Phillips before the court,
would call her.
Mr. Rook objected to the case being proceeded with.
He held in his hands a newspaper report of the Council
proceedings yesterday, by which it appeared that Mr.
Jeffery said Mr. M'Gowen was summoning parties
without any authority; and he wished to know, there-
fore, by what right he was brought there.
Mr. Chilton : We are not the Water Committee, and
cannot inquire into the matter. You are here on sum-
mons, and we must adjudicate.
Mr. M'Gowen stated he was quite willing to hive
the question discussed. It was a very unpopular
duty, he knew, to make people pay rates, but that
would not deter him from doing what was right.
The remarks to which Mr. Rook alluded were not
intended to convey any such impression as he supposed.
Gentlemen in the course of argument illustrated
.their views in a variety of ways, and the observations
referred to by Mr. Rook were much in that spirit,
not in the way of censure or unkindness. The collector,
Mr. Morris, would state that no summons for water rate
was ever issued against a rate-payer without explicit
instructions from the Water Committee, and all those
heard before the court on this and former occasions
were so ordered.
Mr. Morris, collector, stated that such was the fact,
and the summonses havinc, been ordered he was bound to
proceed. Without them he would never have got paid.
Mr. Chilton—We have simply to deal with the sum-
monses before us.
The cease was then proceeded with, and it appeared
from the evidence of Mrs. Phillips that she had origi-
nally paid ss. 6d. per week rent for the house, of which
6d. was to cover taxes. That about April, 1859, Mr.
Rook made an alteration by which she paid him only
4s. 6d. per week for rent and 6d. for taxes, making ss. ;
but she collected his rents for him from neighbouring
property, and he allowed her 6d. a week for so doing.
To the end of her tenancy the rent book contained an
entry of ss. 6d. per week, and the way it was discharged
was 6d. allowed her for rent-collecting, 6d. for taxes,
and 4s. 6d. for balance.

On this evidence Mr. M'Gowen contended that the
value of the house would be ss. 6d. per week, less
what the landlord, Mr. Rook, paid for taxes.
Mr. Rook contended that he ought only to• pay on, a
rental of 4s. 6d. per week that he was entitled to de-
duct from the gross rent whatever he paid; that in this
case he did not in fact receive ss. 6d. per week, but only-
-55., from which 6d. must be deducted for taxes; andi
that the other 6d. he had allowed Mrs. Phillips on ac-.
count of some inconvenience she suffered from noisy-
neighbours and to keep her as his tenant.
Mr. Chilton : Suppose you allowed her to live in the
house rent-free. are the corporation not to be paid for
the water ? You really got ss. 6d. from the house,.
Her services, as stated in evidence, were considered by
you as worth 6d. per week, which sum you allowed her
to retain out of her rent. If the corporation object to•
allowing you to compound for this property because, it
is above £lO per annum, they are entitled to do so, and
to call on the tenant to pay. Then the value of the
house is that contended for by the corporation, namely,
the yearly rent produced by ss. 6d. per week,:less what
you may have to pay for local rates and taxes, under
your agreement with the tenant to pay such taxes. -
Mr. Rook stated that he was dissatisfied with the
decision, and his present intention was to appeal.
A number of other cases were heard, but they pre-
sented no feature of interest to any but the parties
concerned.

sP•orting luttltigtact.

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Heads or Tails 1...10 2 1
Greenwich Fair
Yorkshire Miss
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One mile, on the flat. .
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Irish Emigrant
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HUNTING FIXTURES.
The WYNNSTAY PACK will meet on

Monday, December 17, at Broughton Hall
Tuesday, December 18, at Penley Ran
Friday, December 21, at Rednal Station.
Saturday, December 22, at Styche
Each day at half-past ten.
Master, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P. ; Huntsman, J.Walker.,
The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet on
Saturday, December 15, at Delamere
Monday, December 17, at Crewe
Tuesday, December 18, at Sandiway Head
Thursday, December 20, at Tabley
Friday, December 21, at Peover
Monday, December 24, at Wrenbury Station
Wednesday, December 26, at Warmingham Mill
Thursday, December 27, at Vale Royal
Saturday, December 29. at Twemlow Hall
Monday, December 31, at Three Greyhounds, Rudht ath.
Wednesday, January 2, at Duddon Heath
'Thursday, January 3, at Appleton Hall.
Saturday, January 5, at Oulton Park
Each day at half-past ten.

Mr. B. Nightingale has been elected Judge of the South
Lancashire Coursing Meeting, to be held at Southport on the
9th of January and following days.

IMPROVEILEAT 111 GENTLEMEN'S HATS.

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I have worn for some time one of the Patented Easy-fitting
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This letter is from a first-rate English admiral. The name
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PLAYING CARS.—Hitherto the keenly contested' whist
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Now, however, the beautiful, instructive, and chaste designs
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Those manufactured by De la Rue and Co., are peculiarly rich
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CONSUMPTION, COUGH, ASTHMA, AND BRONCHITIS CURABLE.
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