TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1950, 1 October 1889, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Mr G. T. Wilkinson, Government agent, 1 has concluded the purchase of the whole of the Manitoto goldfield from the natives, and the revenue from that source will now accrue to the Ohihemuri County Council. : The whole of the Grey river up to its junction with the Little Grey has been applied for as dredging claims. Mr Rees, who has been prospecting the ground of the Greymbuth Dredging and Washing Company, in which English capitalists are putting machinery, struck a layer of .gold sft thick, with very, payable .coarse gold. It is believed .that a man with a cradle could make £1 per day at it. The ground is a swamp, never tried before. It has been decided to build a bucket dredge to work with, in preference to a sand pump. Bombardier H. Doughty, a young shot, won the champion belt; at the Battery, Auckland, beating Parslow by a point. It was necessary to make bullseyes with the last two shots to win, and he succeeded in doing it. The Orossus (Nenthorne, Otago) Company finished crushing on Saturday night and obtained 2730zs of retorted gold from 186 tons; and the Prospectors Company ISOozs of retorted gold from 150 tons, Considerable astonishment is felt at Dunedin at the Customs demanding £35 duty on a fountain presented to the city by flir Wolfe Harris. ■ The a.s. Lindus,, from Sydney, arrived at Wellington yesterday.

Mining Laws,— A writer in the Otago Daily Times describes the old Wordens’ Courts ia mining districts in Australia as follows: —“My personal acquaintance with wardens’ or commissioner*’ courts dates back to 1854, they having then sprung into the full Vigour ef thair youthful lives. The court, invested in thebody of the commissioner at that. time, moved to the scene of the dispute, the disputants were confronted, the evidence compared with the actual facts of the case, judgment delivered ther# and then, and the court adjourned. There was no argument, nor precedent, nor previous ruling, nor two meanings of the same term ; no appeal—no nothing, and thorafore no lawyers. Sometimes, it is true, the defeated party would call the court’s decision in question, and express their dissent in terms scarcely dignified ; in which case the court would take off its coat, roll up its shirt sleeves, and support its judgment with its fists a kind of ‘equity’ to,which there are no two meanings, and which never failed to give very general satisfaction. In more degenerate later limes, however, the commissioner held a court at a fixed place, generally in some public bouse, but the procedure was much upon the same principles. The next innovation was the elective mining boards, giving the miners of the several districts the power of making and administering their own laws and regulations. These courts were made a kind of appeal courts from wardens’ decisions, and some wonderful laws end judgments were the result: so extraordinary, indeed, were the judgments,that the administrative powers of the courts were ■ taken away. To meet tha emergencies of the position, and out of this unsettled and unsatisfactory state ef things, grew the discretionary power ot the wardens or commissioners, which was not long in being recognised as a principle in mining law.” , The noted quality of the Coffee made in the Oaf(ss of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly due to the fact that only Fresh Boasted Coffee is used j so that none of the volatile oil and other essentials aire lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson’s Coffee, and you will have a beverage .alike refreshing and stimulating, as it is fresh roasted and ground at the factory, Timaru.—[Advt. 2J ,

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