WARDEN’S COURT, CROMWELL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 115, 23 January 1872, Page 5

WARDEN’S COURT, CROMWELL.

Thursday, January 18. ( Before Vincent Pyke, , Judge and Warden.) 1 Settled by Arbitration.—The application by George Gilford to dissolve the partnership between himself and James Butler (adjourned from previous Court-day) came on for final settlement, the parties having had the matter in dispute decided by arbitration. Judgment was noAV given in accordance with the arbitrators’ award, which was as follows :—“Defendant to pay plaintiff £22, and defendant to take possession of the Moonlight claim, tools, &c., as his individual property. Costs, amounting in all to , £4 17s GJ, to be divided equally.” Hearing Adjourned—An application by the . Alta Company to suspend the operation of sec- ! tion 4, reg. xii., of the Goldfields Regulations, in respect to the water-race held by the Company (the quartz-crushing machine being idle), was adjourned till next Court-day, the applicant J not having appeared. [ application. Tail Pace.— Samuel Roskrudge and two others j applied for leave to extend by 80 yards their present tail-race in Pipeclsy Gully ; granted.

Protection —J. J. H. Brown and 11 others, GO days, quartz claim in Adaujs’s Gullj,— to test reef: granted. Extended Claim. —Win. Green, one acre in Adams’s Gully ; granted. Dam. —Thos. Hazlett and three others, in No. 2 gully north of Goal Greek, Nevis : granted. Ha ter Race*. —T. Hazlett and 3 others were granted two sluice-heads from gully No. 2 nprth oi Coal Greek, Nevis. -—hi. iioskrudge ami two others applied for two sluice-heads from Pipeclay Gully. Objections had been lodged by Chad* wick and party, but there being no appearance of cither applicants or objectors, the hearing was adjourned for a week. Special Site - The application of F. Hoffmann and others for a machine site four chains northwest of .Nil Desperaudum quartz-claim, Pipeclay Gully, was granted. CORRESPONDENCE). [We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. ] MR BEWS IN SELF-DEFENCE. To the Editor of the Cromwell Arcus. Sir,—ln your issue of the 14th November, notice is taken of an application by Messrs Elliott and Tickle, publican and miners, to divert a portion of the main road “ Dunstan to Cromwell,”—in which lam represented by Mr Brough to have said that “ it was absurd to suppose that a public road could be diverted for the special benefit of a few paltry miners.” This I feel called upon most distinctly to deny ; the term “ paltry miners," as emanating', from my lips, is a pure fabrication, at once silly and unmeaning,—plainly intended to enlist sympathy ; and not without some show of success,judging from the gratuitous remarks which fob. lowed.—l am, &0., W. A. Bews. Cromwell, 30th December, 1871. THE PUBLIC READING-ROOM. To the Editor of the Cromwell Argus. Sir,—A few days ago, I dropped in to the Cromwell Reading-room in order to while away a few spare minutes in perusing the papers and magazines. I could not help being struck with the extreme neglect and disregard to cleanliness observable in the appearance of the room; but, the day of my visit being a Saturday, I concluded that the oppressive heat of the weather had prevented the person in charge performing his duties during the week, and had induced him to delay “cleaning-up” till the Saturday evening. But on revisiting the Reading-room to-day, I became convinced that the neglect mentioned must, be of a chronic character ; for instead of any improvement in the aspect of the place, it was very much dirtier than on the former occasion, Scattered in all directions on the floor of the room, I observed the undermentioned articles, viz. one serviceable coal-scuttle, a very diminutive stove, a broken dust-pan, several empty match-boxes, four large ink-bottles (empty), por* tion of a spectacle-case, two pieces of shelvingboards, two small wooden oases, about a bushel of paper fragments, and 1 should say nearly a hundredweight of miscellaneous ill ch. Really, Sir, if the Committee of Management do not wish their subscribers—to say nothing of casual visitors from other parts of the Province —to avoid the Reading-room altogether, they should take immediate steps to have it swept and scrubbed, and afterwards kept in decent condition.— l am, &c., Stranger. Cromwell, January 22.