MINING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 11

MINING NEWS.

ZEEHAN CONSOLIDATED. API*LICATIOX FOB TBIBUTE. BEFCSED BY WARDEN". Ri« hard hn Hasting* Olr. A. (I. T. Bryan i applied at the Thames Warden* Court yesterday. he-ore Mr. K. W. I'lutts. f S-.M.. for The rieht to tiibnte on the pro- - ix-rty known as The JCeehan Consolidated. * no* - owned by the Dominion entities, Wel- . ling-ton <Mr. J. Clctidom. I'laintiff, who is an old miner. e*ainsed he wii« ent:tl<-d :« be granted the right to work uu tril.uie on any part of the Zeehan boldi'-g. He asked for a trifcnte orer a small block on Xo. 4 and Xn. 5 levels. In answer to Mr. Clendon. plaintiff stated he c.wnM the Hidden Treasure fbim at Thamc>. which bad cot been worked for some years. Hp s*'d he was not prepared to tribute on any ;.orti»n of the other 4Srt acres suggested by the defendants. He ndmitt.-d that Mr. T. ue Henzy had accompanied him to Thames, and thej- were staying at the same hotel. C. (J. White, a director of the defendant ct mjvauy. stated that £."O.(KiO had been raided by defenrture holders, aid that the granting of the application of plaintiff vronld s-rii'U.-.ly prejudice the development of the mine. Mr. Bryan argued that the poller of m!ftirg as laid down by Sir Joshua Williams it IM'3 was to prevent the lucking an of lam a res s. Mr. CI end. n pointed ont that the anilcant wanted Hi acres on which the Zfehan < ompany had raised 130,000 tor developI ment purposes. 1 . 'rr'nnJf'f, 11 said ,he application, ond« the < .rcumstauiees was unreasonable, and VouM Olhnarrof X*' 1™ i?! . e nine to which tfco n *»i« * BB MANAGERS' REPORTS. Occidental tTna.—The reported that the - lnaß reef in the north £Id enc . awn s X°- X B"®d «malitr and 18 * rtJ ' of * ore broken in bf> w« in ii>* reef has opened " topes P'lng south, the four feet wide s " to • ni «* Wly. bein* Mend anil elHei t» »- ore broken show. BM»nt* beinv BI " n S arrange.B* n fde re or«ct ! otl of bit-err en * PJWrtT. it been tn hatter?""'^* 0 th " ironer '* l dirt at McGrrcar* «*• 1J I< IM',v nr' l ". ami -«■ is mt«»n<lr*l to put thn r.srh a'nuit SO ton*.