MINING.

Evening Star, Issue 12927, 25 September 1906, Page 4

MINING.

(Continued from page 6.) Our correspondent informs us that at yesterday's sitting of the Warden's Court at Lawrence Robert Cotton, of Waipori, was charged, on the information of the Inspector of Machinery, with having in his service on the old Upper Waipori dredge an uncertificated fireman attending the boiler. —Accused admitted his guilt, urging iu extenuation that the fireman, who was a new arrival in the colony and an engineer by trade, was a capable man, who was ignorant of the law's requirements,—A conviction was entered up, and accused ordered to pay witnesses' expenses and court fees, amounting to £3 16s lOd. An information was laid against the fireman (Andrew Thompson) for being _in charge of a steam boiler without a certificate, and as he admitted his guilt, the Bench convicted and discharged him. The prosecutions were brought as an indication that the department intends to enforce th« Act strictly. RETURNS. Alpine No, 2 : 13oz sdwt, week. Paterson's Freehold No. 1 : 240z lOdwt, Paterson's Freehold No. 2: 250z 15dwt, 133 hours.