WARDEN’S COURT.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 47, 5 October 1870, Page 3

WARDEN’S COURT.

clmc Wednesday, 23tii September, 1870. tier (Before V. Fyke, Esq. , Warden.) . The following applications were disposed of : PROTECTIONS. i F. C. Saxe, alluvial claim at Duffer’s Gully, el lety days : granted. fhe ( y Olson and party, alluvial claim at Kawarau dertrge, thirty days. Objections were lodged by deepen and Robertson, and the application was . . rjourned for a fortnight, to enable the Warden ‘ inspect the ground. the Scott, and party, claim No. 1 north of Elizaprojh Reef, Garrick Range : granted. i-llfp EXTENDED CLAIMS. the }eo. Ramsay and another, two acres at Shepboin'd’s Creek : granted. uclu » r\ \t,r „—~ she was already aware of that fact, for, casting a slight glance over her left shoulder, she throw him a look which he at once interpreted as seductive and hold to a degree. Still further was the old man astonished when the fair creature proceeded to unhook and cast aside her (it must he said) stays, and audible mutterings arose from him. “ Eh. but it’s right immodest; it shouklna be allowed in a Christian country ; it’s dreadfn’ immoral, and I’ll no’ stay to see it.” Tims determined, the indignant Scot rose with the intention of leaving the room ; hut easier said than done, the flaxenhaired beauty had possession, and, turning full round, she, to the intense horror of the immaculate, man, proceeded to disencumber her legs of her—but this was too much ; human nature, in the shape of a virtuous and indignant Scotchman, could stand no more; so with a smothered “ Heaven ha’ mercy on me !” and with a frantic hound, ho cleared the room and fled. Rut not so easy to escape ; for the fair unknown, with lengthv agile strides pursued, and was beside him ere he reached the outer door ; one more craze, and the now terrified man fairly shrieked and darted into the open air ; whilst peals of laughter followed from the operator, his assistant, and the fair and frail one also, who turned out to he no other than Mr George Harrell, in his burlesque costume of the “Young Girl of the Hay.” The manufacture of paper is shortly to be undertaken in Auckland, a company to erect a