iiic L'OdLd weld ijww I ••• « ,When Mr. Harradtne came to take out the sum* mons on Wednesday last, he tound he (Mr. Harra-dine) had served a notice upon Mrs. Ingold, as distinguished from Mr. Hejiry Ingold, find as no clj-lgi had been made against Mrs. Ingold, he amended the Board’s claim, demanding from each the proportion of the £%.Mr. Ewer said the Board's instructions were distinct that the ;^8 should be claimed from Mr. Icgold with certain costs.The Clerk asked how that could be done under the circumstances explained.Mr. Cardo said they were in this difficulty that the Clerk had made a fresh demand without consulting the Solicitor.The Clerk said it was because the information was totally wrong.Mr. Cardo: Who did you not tell him so ?The Clerk ; I did write and fell him.Mr. Cardo : I don't really understand.The Clerk : You won’t understand.Mr. Ewer: I consider the matter was placed in the Solicitor’s hands, and the Clerk had no right to act.The Clerk : If the Board would likean order made against them by the magistrates, well and good.Mr. Anderson ; Let us have the information.The Clerk here read the information, and also a letter from Mr. Soames, in which the writer said the figures would have to he altered to 5s. in the case both of Mr. and Mrs. Ingold.The Clerk said it was on that that he made the fresh demand.Mr. Anderson : I think we must allow that in a matter like this the Clerk must use his own discretion.Mr. Ewer: We have got into a hopeless muddle, and now the only thing we can do is to accept theZ8.The Chairman ; From all I have heard, I think we have all been wrong.Mr. Cardo : It’s the old position.The Chairman : The fault is that we began too soon to instruct our solicitor.Mr. Chapman : My advice is—take the £8.The Clerk ; What would the Boardsay if I allowed them to fill into an error.?The Chairman : It comes to this, I think we ought to look to Mr. Tootell to do more than he does.The Cleik ; Surely it was in the interest of the Board that I did this.Mr. Carlyor : I took down the resolution at the last meeting “ That proceedings sheuld be taken,” but not by Mr, Soames, but I am willing to withdraw my objection.The Board then instructed the Cle'rkto amefid the amendment with reference to the notice on Mr, Gwynne and Mr. Walters in the way Mr. Carlyon had suggested.THE EFFLUENT AT GRSENHILL.A letter was read from Mr. Capon, surveyor to the Harrow Local Board, in which the writer spoke of the satisfactory character of the effluent from his Authority’s farm at Greenhill. He said it had been satisfactory for six months, and the Thames Con-servaacy Inspector had expressed his entire approval of it. In conclusion Mr. Capon said he did not see how tons of sewage could be put on the Hendon Union Rural Sanitary Authority’s farm without the effluent running away somewhere.Mr. Woodbridge said their man at the farm had