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and Wood at 30 Rosemary Street, Belfast. He was Crown Solicitor for the County Antrim and City of Belfast from 1912 to 1921 and Chief Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1928, when he retired. Miscellaneous Professional Information. Charles St. George Orpen, Frederick John. Waller Darley, and Dermot McGillycuddy have entered into partnership, and will carry .on-the business of Darley, Orpen and Synnott at 30 and 31 Kildare Street, Dublin under the name of Darley, Orpen and McGillycuddy. COURTS OF JUSTICE BILL, 1934. On the 19th July, the Committee stage of the Courts of Justice Bill, 1934, was taken in the Dail, but by arrangement only Government amendments were considered, these being moved by the Minister for Justice. On the next stage the Bill will be re committed in its entirety, it will be taken again in Committee, section by section, and amendments may be submitted as for a first Committee stage. It will be necessary to give notice of all amendments intended to be moved, including any of which notice may have been given for the Committee stage which has taken place, but which amendments have not yet been dealt with. Some of the amendments submitted by the Council to the Minister have been, at his instance, incorporated in the Bill. The Bill has been reprinted, and is now on sale as amended in Committee.

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.

llth July. Twenty-eight Members present. Damage to Property (Amendment) Act, 1933. The opinion obtained of Senior Counsel was submitted on the question as to whether the Minister under the Damage to Property Compensation) (Amendment) Act, 1933, has legal aiithority to apply the costs, as well as the compensation, awarded by . him in Report cases, towards payment of debts due by the applicants, to the State, or to the Land Commission, or for rates. Counsel advised that if a Report under the Act of 1933 provides for costs, the Minister's dis cretion to pay, or not to pa}', under Section 6 (2) of the Act of 1933 applies to the costs, and also that the power of deduction given by Section 13 (3) of the Principal Act also applies to the costs. (Compensation) OBITUARY. MR. HENRY P. BRIDGE, Solicitor, died on the 2nd Juty, 1935, at Galway. Mr. Bridge served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. William Bridge, Roscrea, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1910, and practised at Roscrea. MR. JOHN R. MOORHEAD, Solicitor, died on the 3rd July, 1935, at his residence, Hazelbrook, Knock, Belfast. Mr. Moorhead served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. McMordie, Belfast, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1886, and practised as a member of the firm of Moorhead