SUPREME COURT.
IN CHAMBERS. Thursday, April 15. (Before his Honor Mr Justice Williams.) IN RE J. B. BLAIR'S CLAIM. The hearing of this case was resumed. J. B. Blair, contractor for the Upper Waitaki bridge, seeks to recover a sum of £9492 5s 'Id from the Duntroon and Hakateramea Railway Company, the amount beiug made up as fol lows :—Balance due on contract, £7166 12s Od ; due for timber, £1215 4s 6d ; and for interest, £1910 8s Id; less £SOO cash received, leaving a total of £9492 5s 4d. Mr Blair now appeared, in pursuance of notice, to substantiate his claim.
Mr W. D. Stewart appeared for Mr Blair; Mr Sim for the official liquidator (Mr G. S. Brodrick), and Mr Haggitt for the Hon. Mr Campbell, who is largely interested in the matter.
Mr Haggitt submitted that the evidence adduced at last hearing was conclusive that Mr Blair had nothing to do with the Railway Com pany at all. His contract was with the com missioners, and the whole of the work he now claimed for against the Company was originally done for them. They deputed that there was any liability on the part of the Company; and if there was auy liability on the part of anybody, that it was not for anything like the amount claimed.
