WARDEN'S COURT, CROMWELL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 132, 21 May 1872, Page 6

WARDEN'S COURT, CROMWELL.

Thursday, May 16. {(Before E. H. Carew, Esq., Judge and Warden.) A Caution to Aliens (and others).—Six Chinamen (from Bendigo) were charged, on the information of Sergeant Cassels, with miaing for jgold without being possessed of miners' rights. The offence was held proved against all the delinquents, who were fined 10s. each, ia addition to lis. costs of Court. Stephenson, Biggins, and Hebbert v. Gilbert M'Cabe.—The complainants (for whom Mr Allanby appeared) sought to recover from defendant the sum of £4 lis. for wages due to them •on account of work done in the Caledonian <quartz-claim, together with a further sum of 9s. ipaid on defendant's behalf for mining-tools.— Defendant said he had not been furnished with -any bill of particulars, and he therefore pleaded •not indebted.—G. T. Stephenson, miner, stated : T am one of the complainants, and a working •shareholder in the Caledonian claim. The defendant lately held a twelfth share in the claim. About seven weeks ago, a call of £4 1 Is. per : share, in addition to 9s. for tools, was made on account of working expenses. The rate of wages paid was £3 12s. a week to each of the four men then employed. The defendant was made aware of the call having been made, but wished to deduct from the amount a sum alleged to be owing to him by one of the working shareholders, and 'offered to pay 16s. on account of the call.—ln answer to tlie Warden, the defendant acknowledged the fact of the call having been made, but asked to be furnished with particulars. The Warden remarked that as defendant had acknowledged the call, he was liable for the amount of it. Defendant then agreed to pay the claim, •and judgment was given for £5, together with lis. costs of Court, and £1 Is. counsel's fee. Joseph Berry and Gustavcs Kendall v. Samuel Champion. —Claim £2O 17s. 6d., balance of wages due to complainants for work done on the Bannock burn Water Race. Defendant pleaded not indebted. Mr Allanby, for complainants, called Joseph Berry, who stated : I : am one of four shareholders in the Bannockburn Water Bace. The other shareholders are Rendall, Champion, and Frennesson. Beudall and I are working shareholders. It was arranged that we were to receive 255. a week each from the sleeping shareholders; and the expenses were to be defrayed by the four shareholders in equal proportions. Kendall and I have each received 255. a week up to the time mentioned hi the <dairn. When asked to pay the amount claimed, defendant did not dispute the fact of its being due, but said he could not pay it. There is a wages-man employed by the party, who also receives 255. a week. We have paid him our share of his wages, but not Champion's share. The amount now sued for includes the propor- j tion due by Champion to the wages-mau.—At this stage, his Worship recommenced Mr Al- J lanby to withdraw the case, and bring it before j the Court in proper form next Court-day. The ; 'complainants could not recover wages due to an-; other.— The case was accordingly withdrawn. ArPLIOATIONS. Extended Claims.— John Bailey and another, j Bailey's Gully ; (no appearance.)—T. Cooper and I ■another, Geordie'sTerrace, Lindisßiver: granted. ! —Wm. Radford, right hand branch of Smith's Gully : granted.—John Barr, Bailey's Cully : I granted.—Tung Oh flee and another, Bannockburn : granted.—Ah Yett, near Bannockburn : j granted.—L. C. Dims, Adams's Gully, adjoining the claim of Samuel Matter : objected to by D. j Moore, and refused.—Chung Kam and two others, Dead Horse Gully : granted.--See Ah Tan and four others, Nevis Gorge : granted. Protection. —Henry Wilson and live others, j •sixty days for a quartz-claim at the Carrick! Range : granted, (two men to be kept at work.) j Robert Burns Q. M. Co., registered, sixty days: j graced, (two men to be employed.) —Edward ! Barnard and five others, sixty days for a quartz I claim. (No appearance.)— Henry Summers and ■five others, sixty days for quartz claim No. 1 j east of Star of the East (to test reef) : granted, j Archibald Sutherland, ninety days for alluvial ■claim at the Nevis, (cause, inclemency of wea- j ther) : grunted.—James Gibson and five others, i thirty days for the Welcome quartz claim, (to ! test reef) : granted. Tail Races. —John Bailey and another, Bailey's Gully: granted.—Chung Kam and two others, Dead Horse Gully : granted.—Wm. Benn and ■another, left-hand branch of Smith's Gully : I granted.—See Ah Tan and live others, Nevis! Gorge : granted. Water Races. —Thomas Cooper and another, i iwo sluice-heads from Geordie's Creek, near Lin- j •dis : granted. —Chung Kam and two others, two sluice-heads from Dead-horse Gully : granted. i Residence Areas. Henry Norman, one acre, i at Newcastle : granted.—James Partridge, 200 I yards east of Escott's farm, Lowbum : granted. | Dams. —C Colclough, manager of Nil Despcrandum <*. M. Co., registered, applied for leave to construct a dam in Pipeclay Gully. Objections were made on behalf of the Robert Burns Company, and consideration of the application was postponed for a fortnight.