WARDEN'S COURT,

Otago Witness, Issue 1897, 12 June 1890, Page 13

WARDEN'S COURT,

FRinAY, Junk 6. (Before Mr K. 11. (,'arow, Warden.) DUSKY SOUND OOPPKR MINE. Mr Solomon mentioned the casn of Woods v. Dncherty (l)uskv Souriii) suid iJoehorty v. Harris (W(*l. Jacket Ann), the cases, he said, involved consideration of title to n coppt-r mine on tho west coast of Ntw Zealand, and, as there would bo n considerable amount of liti^ai ion in connection with it, It was iuutH6oii(il)le to expect his Worship to Like it that d>tv. us lie had other engagement, jind argument would oceuov tinea hours at least. As representing Messrs Woodsand Harris, he sugyp&ted an adjournment till next week. Mr Sim, representing Mr Uooherty. concurred, and slated that the case his client made out was this: Ho ar'd Harris were partners in a mineral prospecting license. Specimens wero got from a mine wirliin the Otaeo mining district and uooherhy alleged that he was beiug wrongfully deprived of them. An adjournment till the 17th inst. was granted. SHOTOVKK RIVER. ATv Solomon aaid I hat the uppl -cation Of M'Grath v. North and S-jutt (in which the eou-t is ask. it to determine what sh ire the detonriunts are entitled to under a licensed hi.l.iinir on the Shotover rivei) was inexactly the same position, and ho asked that ib &U»i(J over til! the game day. Mr W. a. Nfa"grecor (f or " the defendants) offering no olij ction, the adjournmn.it, was granted. AnjOUIINET). An npplinßr.i^n by Vavne an.t others for a prospecting claim at Ooal Js'and was, at Mr Fouat'a requeit, ordered to stand ovhi- till ,fu!v 4. MrE. A. Jo>jl nbkid th ,t thn Hpplir>".f 'on of Arnold Sturm for a special cUim near .Mullocky Gully be adjourned till July 4.— Granted. Charles WlllUm Anderson's application fora water race at Machine Creek, Hindon, was adjourned til July 4. STRUCK OUT. The application of Walter A. Palmer for protection

for a claim at Coal Island was struck out for want of appearauce. WATER BIGHTS AT COAL ISLAND. WiHi rc3pe ;t to fuurapplications, previously heard, ' for watt'r rights at Coal Maud, hU Worship said trmt he had considered these application for rights ot water at dial Island, and he was sorry that ho c iuld no*, see the place him-jelf, but from the best information he could get he thought it inadvisable that any of the applications should be granted. Water was at present available for a large number of miners, and it the rights were restricted to the peraous now makiug application tuere would be room for only a small number of men. All tho applications would be refused. APPLICATIONS GRANTED. George ®rd applied for an extended claim on the miniog reserve, bl ick IX, Waikouaiti.— Granted. Tho application of Matthew Begg for a water race at Machine creek, Hindon, was granted for 16 years.