The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday July 22 1907

IN THIS CONNECTIOR MAY WE ENQUIRE WHY THE office of the Assistant Secretary to the Legislative Department of the Government of Bengal should not be again separated from the office of the Secrtary which is held by a Civilian and a lawyer appointed to the former office ? Formerly the post of the Assistant Secretary used to be filled.by Barrister who enjoyed also the liberty to practice or to h [...] ship Brett J. held that wtlen goods were consigned to the River Steam Navigation Company to be carried to Calcutta and part of the journey was by the Steamer of the Company and.the rest by the train of the E. B. S. Railway Company and the goods were lost during the transit by rail the Defendant Steamer Company was entitled to claim the prtection afforded by the Railways Act. [...] (3) Or the contract may be regarded as a divisible one consisting of two parts—one part in respect of the carriage of the goods by the steamer made with the River Steam Navigation Company and the other part in respect of the conveyance of the goods by rail made with the Railway Company through their agents the River Steam Navigation Company. [...] The zemindar claimed to be in khas possession of Jhikra and the foreshore of the river and wanted to levy certain cesses upon the traders for the use of the land and the foreshore. [...] Where its exercise may lead to the infringement of an undoubted civil right where an obligation which the law of the country imposes becomes incapable of being enforced owing to the exercise of such a jurisdiction and where the breach of the peace apprehended by the Magitrate is a likely result of the enforcement of his legal right*by a party in a legal way and the illegal denial of the corre