MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 223, 21 September 1888, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

(FROM OUR OWN COREESRONDiINT.)

,-■,;■■:■'. '■: -■' ' - 'Thames, this!day.: PEGGING OUT" SHEEP-RUNS."-AN INTERESTING CASE.

The Warden's Court was occupied until a late hour yeßterday afternoon, with the hearing of appHoacions for .the surplu 8 ground contained in the Mkriposa licensed; holding at Waitekauri. VV. V. Ralph apj plied for a license for the Mariposa holding, j and upon it being called.on for disposal the ! Warden pointed out that the quantity of I groiiind for which - applications had been ! made to the Court was 20 acres, but the i arbai pegged but weis 70 odd acres. He certidnly could not allow this kind of thing, as whole country sides were marked out, and then the.pegger,-put. got his friends to apply fbr the surplus ground. Were this practice continued lie would refuse to grant the licensed ho.ldmg, and would,throw the whole area back intb the goldKeld. A man might as well put in a peg at Te Aroha and another at Cape Colville, and take iip the whplePeninsula. The Warden, however, decided to grant.the license for SO acres. At a subsequent stage of the proceedings a plaint by J. M. Chambers, of Auckland, agaiiist W. V. Ralph, fpr the surplus gi-ound contained ih tlie Mariposa licensed holdine-, came on for bearing. This,hbw- ;- ever, was struck out, as Mr Chambers \Vias not present, and his lhiher's right was hbt produced. A complaint by Frederick Challis that he Should be awarded this; surplus ground was next dealt with, but an objection was put in by Edwin Edwards arid I J. Neal, owners of the.Saxon claim (late J Eclipse), on the ground that this hold1 ing was included in the surplus. The evidence of complainant (Challis) disclosed that the Mariposa had been marked out by Mr Ralph, .enr., that the area contained 76 acres, and that Ralph's son had "laid On "Challis to lay the plaint to gain possessiohot the surplus ground. In "giving his decision the Warden said that first of all they had a man who pegged out the whole country tide. This, hb'vyev rer, was not so bad, as ho had stated that he intended to apply for a special claim of 100 acres. But then there Was a son, who, although in partners with his father ih the Mariposa dlaib. actually laid oh another man to take up the surplus ground contained in the Mariposa, and this man was employed by the son. He {the Warden) had taking the - whole ■bf the circumstances into cpn^iderafcion, to arrive at the conclusion as to; whether thorehsid been, such a thing;as collusiom He would resorvo his decision on this point until to-day, in order to allow him to look up authorities on the subject in the meantime. He was quite satisfied that/ the Saxon people had n_ox*e right to_ the grpurtd than aiiyobb elcb, ancl wpiilc] therefore grant a license to. them for it when .the necessary plftus were before tho Court. He wouid not %iy> however, whether he could award the surplus ground to Challis or throw it back into the gqldfield,' but would decide this point to-day. Costs ampuntibg to £7 were allowed to the objectors, This morning the Warden gave.his decision re the Miiripo... surplu.. giound. lie held tjiat there had been collusion aiid refused to award Challis the surplus, but said he would thro . tHe ground bs-1- into the gold field, so that anyone could now mark i. out*;' ""A"., 'A '~ -.: ; i .

New Albbrnia.—Colours of gold are freely s6eb in the stopes on 3obe. leader; ,/ : Saxon.—Four,o . five pounds picked stpne obtained yesterday from tenth stope ftom No. .4 level oh main reef. In .drive from fourth stope on hangingwall reef, No. 3 level, tho reef is about lft thioki .and shows colours of gold. The crushings are shaping better "at .hdbatfcbi'ies. Amalgam on hand to date, 3920z. 19dwt.

i WABDENYGoiffe._--Ih the cburse of the pirocoedingß in the; Warden's Court yesterday, the Warden saidthafc before granting any licensed.holding in the future he would make it a rule fchdt applicants must lodge _. ith Mr! "Burgess the whole of the chfei'ges and rent just the same as the hearing foe was, paid in bivil cases. In the:o.ent of such not being done within a reasonable time, he would refuse, to grant the libe_._e, as he did not thinkthe Registrar should be placed in the position'.of-"a-Rate Collector ahd be obliged to dolleot the rentatid charges. . . ~ •■•■'- Gem . (Waiomo).-—The brushing of 11 tons of quartz from this mine was finished at the Paroquet battery to-day ibr 13oz ißdwt pbld. Five, tons of. this were 6b-; tdined from the rise, which yielded about 2bz per- ton, the baliince boirig froih: 6 tons from tho old stopes.

'••■ ■-•■ - Cob6manijel, this diay. ~'. . TokAtleA G. M; Co.—iDuncan and pnrty,_, ob No. 2tfibute, have obtained about half; atdii of payable quartz. The leader herois greatly improved, in size, it being now fully six inches thick itl placeaj aiid bccfiAiODally showing strong dabs of gold in the stone. Thesb indications give good hopes of discovering; * big haul of specimens. Dick ahd Cbwsin, ort No. 6,' in opening their low level drive, hftVe met with the big-lodo thab traverses the ground In a north and south direction. It hfu. the Appearance of strong stone, with great thickness',; which ihaketT progress very- slow. "No gold has been seen yet, but I shall care-1 fully watch the stone broken while they are driving through tlio lode. , Roberts nhd' Sbott on No. 17. tribute have commenced, work at the back of your No, 7 level driye. Their present work is taking away the lead;, iiig/stdpe hear to the Bismarck ..boundary'! in the hope of coming on payable gold, eiitiilf.. to that from the intermediate level.;. The stbpe in hand looks poor, nevertheless gold was seen in the.'lodo yesterday.—Jno. Benney. ' /".", RoYAii Oak Mine.—Since last report, iirospecting oh the branch reef towards the . orerty lode has been .'discontinued fot; tho^ present. I have again 'started on the. main rise No. 2 cross-he«d to get up. There is a fibo lbokirig'reef in hand at present, and the. ground is getting. moro fayourable-lbokiug going up. Iti breaking down the reef in the west end of .the rise) there^as a little golcl met. with on a different cross-head,,and seems to be of a mhch coarser, nature than was got lower down. There is nothing new, to report from the tribute.—Peter Reid.