WARDEN'S COURT KUMARA

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1902, Page 4

WARDEN'S COURT KUMARA

(Before D. Maofarlane, Esq., E.M.)

Wednesday, Sept . 17th.

New Greenstone Gold Dredging Com Sany. Special claim. Grant recommen ed.

Greenstone Junction Gold Dredging Company. Special claim. Grant recommended. The surrender of tho cla ; ms of both Companies was adjourned until the applications are returned from the Minister. Madden and Party. Six mont'-is' proteetion. Granted,

S, Lee, Sis months' protection. Granted. Lamason. Application for water race. Aljourned for production of plan. Same. Application for dam. Adjourned for production of plan, B. Lawson. Surrender of residence area, Granted. A. C. Campbell. Applica'ioi for residence area. Granted. DISPUTED APPLICATION. James Cowan, application for prospecting liconse of eight acres, Dukes Terrace, Greenstone. Objected to by Me3srs Biggs and Kooch. Mr Byrne for applicant, Mr Murdoch lor objector. Mr Murdooh contended on bohslE of the objector that tho grant should no!; be made as it was oppcssd to tho spirit anl 'iatention and the general principals of the Mining Act to grant a smalt prospecting liconse of eigbt acres in tho heart of proved ground, and surrounded by claims proved to be highly auriferous. Had they thought they were going to be forced into this li igation they would not have baen so ready to bid for Cox and Party's claim sold recently at the Court House here. His Worship agreed that tho proper course was for applicant to apply for a special claim under the circumstances. J. Cowan said that Mr Harris wrote out the application and he and Harris pegged' out the claim. He marked three of the pegs with two cuts, the. fourth he did not mule at all. He did not cut a trench at the fourth peg as required by the regulations. He simply scraped the ground with his foot. In pegging out Cox's and Party's claim sold at the Court a few weeks back, he was present with De vereux Ansley and Cox. He would not swear that they were the same pegs as mentioned in the certtfi :ate produced. Tne claim was worked continually for about six years. The claim never paid £3 per week. It paid £2103 per week for one washing Mr Harris got the balanoe over what came to witness. The witness refused to state who first suggested that ha should peg out tjb prospecting license applied for. By Mr Byrne—None of the pegs of the original claim known as Cox's are to the be3t of his belief within the boundary of the prospecting area applied for. Was not quite sure about the 4th peg marked Don the plan. The nearest party working leaving out box to the prospecting area applied for is about | mile distant. The ground applied for is virgin country. The Greenstone Sluicing Company's old claim is about %of a mile distant. Foley's Creek about two miles distant is the nearest workings on the north side and on the west down the creek the nearest workings is at the Three Mile Greenstone Creek about a quarter of a mile away. He intended to bona fide pnspect the ground applied for. His Worship here raraarked that it was only waste of time taking further evidence. The proper course for the app'icant to tike was to apply for a special claim and not a prospecting area where it was surrounded by worked ground. Application refused with counsal's fee £1 Is.