WARDEN’S COURT.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 191, 8 July 1873, Page 3

WARDEN’S COURT.

Thursday, July 3. (Before W. Lawrence Simpson, Esq., Warden.) ‘ d->- y applications. f was made on behalf of the Star of the East, Heart of Oak, and Colleen Bawn Q.M. Companies, Eegistered, for ninety clays’ protection for each claim—the causes assigned being inclement weather, and the difficulty of getting men to work in consequence of the existing strike for hudier wages. Verbal objections were made by°W. m on °f the men on strike, ilr Onrhths said there was no necessity for stopping work on the claims on account of the frost, as the operations were carried on -almost entirely underground. On behalf of the ''tar Company, it was stated that the crushing before last gave a dividend of 2s. per share, and fast crushing did not pay expenses. The Warden remarked that if the claim was not paying the men could not expect the shareholders to carry on work at a loss. If the Company could get men at the reduced rate of wages, that would prove that the workmen on strike were askim' more than the market value of their labour He was not going to say that the directors should be farced to carry on work because the men wanted to compel them. He was not in a position to say whether the men were right or wrona in demanding higher wages than the Companies offered; but,if the latter could not get other hands within a mouth, it would show that the men were in the right. He would grant thirty days protection to afford the parties an opportunity of coming to an arrangement.--With regard to the Heart of Oak. the Legal Mana-er stated the company had paid no dividend during the past half-year, and indeed had experienced great difficulty in furnishing their share of stone tor crushing at the United Companies, machine. The Warden said that in Victoria the wages difficulty had been got over by giving the Workmen wages m proportion to the payableness of the claims. Thirty nays’ protection would be also granted tor tbc He.arfcof Oak.— The Colleen Bawn company were granted protection for the same period. The Warden advised the Companies to lose no time in arranging either with the men on strike or with others in their place as he would not grant renewals of protection if thereby the c aims were to be kept improperly idle. Extended Clams The following were granted: —Mah Hoey and three others, Nevis ; (hven Neil and three others, Adams’s Gully ; James hobertson, Adams’s Gully ; Hen ■ hung, Nevis. lad Race. Certificate granted to Mali Hoey and three others, Nevis. * Diversion o/bSYrmw.-Mah Hoey and party ohained permission to divert the Nevis river,‘subject to the usual restrictions. Residence Areas were granted to F. Shambrook and John Lange, Doctor’s Flat.