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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 133, 28 May 1872, Page 5

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Thursday, May 23. WoreE. 11. Carew, Esq., Judge and Warden.) William Benn and Andrew Whitfield,'holders [a sluicing-claim in the left branch of Smith's plly, Carrick Range, complained against the fiz:ibet!i Q M. Company, Registered, for unFinlly depositing earth, stones, tailings, gravel, jil other substances on complainants' claim ; for pea the complainants seek to recover damages [the extent of £G:>. Mr Brough appearedwi pall of complainants ; and Mr Colclough, as pi manager, represented the directors of the pibeth Company. The principal issues appre I to be—lst, whether a certain dam claimed f the complainants belongs to them or to the awuiants; and, 2ndly, whether the complaints are entitled to use the water flowing down 0 ?;lly. The Warden intimated his intention Jisu the ground on Wednesday (to-morrow) ««twurnea the hearing of the complaint until »following Thursday. p , APPLICATIONS. 1,1 ft , Cl V >m were Sauted to the persons | in .he localities undermentioned :—O. Ho«g CiS n8 «' ? r " L bankof G. ChiTH anot ><*, Wiley's Cully ; Ah Shang and inlnv T' I,ann, '>ckbiirn Creek; J. Wrightson ™ner quarter-mile west of Kawarau Gora ™p; j ames But]er and fivfl ot]jcr ad ..o Ll riS r. SOUS F. Skinner, adjoining Er qU ll rter^ lle aboVe °' D o"neir 3 store, 2«» i i TIC of Arthur Will Sight 01,lJohns Flafc > w« adjourned for a slr on f^ W --: T n W -Thompson, one sluice anted PK UZ t\ Creek ' Quartz Eeef P ™t: re. T ? )ert , 3uma Q-M. Company, Recrisof co m n nCG " llea '! 3 I™" 1 a ? 0in * >mpiA ; e p- ent 1 0f the *& Desperandum Pany 3 race > Pl Pcclay Gully. Objections to

the granting of the application were lodged on behalf of the Jehu Bull and Nil Desperanduin Companies respectively. ■ The Warden adjourned the hearing for a week, in order that he might have an opportunity .of visiting the ground before deciding the application.—A. Mulholland and two others were granted an alteration of their licensed race, to commence at Surface Point, Kawarau Gorge.—Wah Hi and another applied for and obtained a grant of water from a point above O'Donnell's store, Bendigo Gully.