WARDEN'S COURT, CROMWELL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 113, 9 January 1872, Page 6

WARDEN'S COURT, CROMWELL.

—it — Thursday, Jakuauy 4. \(Before VUvxnl P,jh, %,. Ta-lije and Wan!:,}.) Ritchie and another <\ Smirfc.—Adjourned to next (Jourt-day by consent. APPLICATIONS. Exfnvk'l Claim*.— 'Ma Hoy and four others appliol for live acres at Lu rjafca Greek. There | were no objections, aud the application was I granted.— \V. IHle a'id three others, four acres i at Xawiran Gorge. The implication was ordered to bo advertised in the Citouwru.L A in sirs. Tail Race*. — Ma Hoy and four others, from ! extended el dm at Lu ;:;tte < "reek : printed. Head Karat.— Ma Floy and four others, two jalnioe-hcailsfrom Lnsgate I heck : ad. W. I Novello, one sinice-head from below the shepherd's but, 4-mile creek, Quartz liccf i'oint: granted.- -lioliert Barnes and two others applied [for two sluice-heads from seventy yards below Barnard's tail-race in Pipeclay Gully. Ifomard an i party objoeted. and the application was adjjonrned for seven days by consent, to enable the 1 parties to ascertain m ire exaet.y the position of ! the tail-race. George Hogg and another applied for lieeuse i'i construct a head-race from two and a half miles up the Hawea Itiver, to carry eight heads of water. The application was objected to by 15. W. Thomas, on the ground that the proposed ! race, as nvuk i :d out, went so elise to the race ! of the objector that he was afraid that the Igronnl between wmltl be washed away, and his race damaged. Fnmi the statements of the | parties, it appeared that the new race would rmi i within four or five feet of the old one in places where the ground was very steep and shiny!;/ ; I and the Warden decided t a refuse the application nn'css the applicant shifted his proposed line at least ten fei t off. To give time for the an-p'r-nnt to makeuphis mind as to the advisability of shifting or abandoning the race, he agreed to adjourn the case to next < '■< urt-day. The appheation of Fred. Koli'mann anl five others for two sluice-he ids from Pipeclay Gully, ! which had been adjourned fr >m last Conrt-dav, i lvinc objected to by Sherrin and party, was ! called, upon thi application of Mr Rrnugh TV- \\',-i" 1-n stated thai, a survev must, be made j„ />,-,! ?r ►„ ;, 3L -,-riai'a if the water C'ui-! Hp n=-ei

for other machines as well as the machine of tht applicants, and also to liirl out the amount time each michine-holder should pay towards the cost of the race, &c. Eventually, however, the parties agreed between themselves as to'tuese points ; an 1 the Warden male the grant. Protection.— Robert Brydon and five 3tfs\ 60 days for quartz claim No. 1 south of trie United Bannockburn Company's claim, Carrick llange,— tii test reef: granted. Alfred Short and five others, GO days, for No. i east of Nil Desperaudum : granted. JJams.—Ynn Sen and three others, dam on Pipeclay Gully flat: granted.—Wra. Green and another, at the junction in Adams's Gully r granted. Residence Area.— Thomas Horrigan, quarteracre, quarter of a mile east of Elizabeth battery, Carrick Bange : no appearance.