MIDLAND RAILWAY ARBITRATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2691, 14 December 1895, Page 4

MIDLAND RAILWAY ARBITRATION.

Tho Court resumed ui 10 u.m. yesterday. I\Ji* Cooper, on behalf of llio Company, handed in a. return uf tho total amount received from laud sales, .JJIO,OOO, and a return ol assets on and liand mortgages and laud not sold, . Evidence was then continued on behalf of .the Crown. John Eiiodgross, district surveyor r at Westport, gave evidence as to the mining reserves, ilie general character of tho country and how the reserves Oiimo to be blocked out. John Bird, clerk of tho Court and constable at Charleston, gave evidence us to tho number of privileges registered in tho Warden’s Court at Charleston within the past‘five years. ....... Sutherland, mine manager, was examined with reference to tho Keefton district and the Upper Grey. Thoa. Thomson, engineer of* the Bullet* Countj' Council, and Michael Phillips, clerk of the Grey County Council, were also examined. Sir James Hector deposed as to the geological character of the country on the VYest Coast. John Higgins, engineer of the Grey County Council, Herbert Cox, gold buyer and stovekeeper atNoiown, H. H. J. Beeves,ex-M.H.K., John Hargraves, F, J. Gleoson, Denis Kyall, Thomas George Davis, James Robertson, Jeremiah McCarthy, John Flynn and Frank Pitt, all residents on the West Coast, gave evidence as to tho mining reserves being inquired for mining purposed. Mr Cooper put in a summary of cash received by the Company. • At 5.15 p.m. the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock this morning, when evidence will be tendered-with respect to the land in the Marina Valley. The case for the Crown is expected to be through by Thursday next.