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No 15. Return of Cases in the Wardens' Courts, and Costs awarded, for the Year ending 31st December, 1908.

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Aggregate Amount of Value. .3 so <c 8.C.2S District. Number of Mining Disputes adjudicated on. Claimed. Recovered. Amount of Costs awarded. ■§§2 a ib a <d o Auckland—■ Coromandel Thames.. .. Te Aroha Paeroa Waihi .. .. .. ;., 15 2 1 21 12 £ s. d. 174 17 8 453 2 10 32 9 0 • 345 3 7 242 14 0 £ s. d. 18 11 8 31 13 9 37 11 0 108 3 0 £ s. d. 8 19 0 175 9 2 12 0 10 4 0 32 9 4 '5* 7 Marlborough— Blenheim Kelson— Inangahua CoUingwood Lyell and Murchison Westport .. :.. j Charleston Takaka Wangapeka ., 8 2 5 184 6 3 42 "5 0 31 16 3 42 "5 0 28 13 3 14 14 0 6 6 0 3t 12 43 16 1 17 3 9 26 11 6 8 ZVestland— Kumara .. .. ..'.-. Greymouth Hokitika and Kanieri Stafiord Ross .. .., .; Ahaura .. .. Okarito .. 32 200 13 2 29 7 3 27 13 0 3 4 155 1 3 275 8 6 42"l 3 4 10 0 14x6 0 3 9 0 74 J '6 i 565 i3 9 3 15 0 l6' 3 9 3 15 0 47 12 2 0 9 0 'it )tago and Southland— Tuapeka Cromwell ■ .. Black's .. ,. Roxburgh .. .. | Clyde and Alexandra Waikaia Orepuki, Longwood, and Riverton .. Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Queenstown Gore Naseby Wyndham 5 29 1 69 10 2 1 175' 8 6 50 0 0 151 18 0 578 11 0 58 "2 0 10 0 0 36 6 0 107 10 0 4 11 0 46 4 4 9 16 0 49 9 3 5 5 10 14 1 0 i 10* 16 0 0 "2 2 25 0 0 5*0 0 817 0 "i§ Totals 245 3,716 3 7 593 19 8 536 11 10 110 * Forfeiture decreed. t Cancellation of license. t Seventy-four mining applications dealt witb. § Injunction as prayed.