WARDEN'S COURT ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 470, 21 April 1871, Page 2

WARDEN'S COURT ALEXANDRA.

[Before Vincent Fyke, Esq.. Warden,] Bernard O’Neill applied for an extended claim at Butcher’s Gully. The application was objected to by Messrs. Carroll and M'Guiuess, the former on the ground that the claim had not been properly marked out, and the latter because if it were granted it would interfere with the working o his claim. Wiison appeared for applicant and Mr. through I*' the objectors Messrs. Carrol, M‘Guin s, Rosendale and Fish aepos (1 that only three pegs ban been put in. N’Neill swore he had put in the four pegs. The Warden sid the balance of ihe evidence was in favor of the objectors and theß emulations mustjbe strictly observed as the pegs were the miner's charter—his Crown Grant in fact. The application was refused with 28s. costs.

The following applications were grante d George Lythgoe, Extended tail race ; Sam Goon and Georg Baiey, Extended claim, Spear Grass Flat; Louis Gard and party Extended Claftp, Golden Beach ; Charles Sweden, protection certificate for ninety eaysj Twelve Mile Beach ; G." Staneonfi e, protec ion for claim at Butcher’s Gully ; J. R. Kemp, protection Bald Hill Flat ; Samuel Canfield, head race from Coal Creek to Six Mile Beach.

Murphy v Halley. Action to prevent defendant running tailings on to plaintiff’s agricultural leasehrld. Mr. Wilson for defendant, There was not sufficient proof of damai>o,and the case wasdiamissed withcosts of court 11s., and witnesseses 20s.

That irreverent paper, the Wanganui Herald, writes, under the heading ‘•The Governor Abroad.” as follows :—“ The Governor abroad is a confounded nuisance. We are continually receiving ielegramsj(for which we have to pay) of his advent in one place, and his departure from another, his levees banquefeting, receptions, and whose guest he was. The worst of it is that no person cares a jot about the Governor, and the telegrams are not worth the money. We have a good mind to inform our correspondents not to send any more telegrams about the Governor un’ess he has lost an leg or an a cm. It- is devoutly hoped for that the Governor will settle down ill the bosom of hisfami y, and pu: us to no more useless expense in paying for telegrams which no one cares to read. We shal certainly not inflic upon our press friends the punishment they are inflicting upon us, when His Excellency comes to Wanganui. To please them, however, we mav telegraph that ‘the Goveviipr is here, the guest of the chairman of the public meeting.”

A Western newspaper has hoisted the following as its motto:—“ Good wi 1 to all men who pay promptly. Devoted to news and making money.” A late A talanta paper says:—“A lady in this city tied her hubby’s hands and feet, the other day. just for fun, and then went- tlnongh his pocket- for a certain billet-doux and found it. His physician te Is him that his face won’t he badly scaned though he may be permanently bald.” i

Path or a novel motliocl of hunting kangaroos is described by th a Pastoral Times,' of the 4th March : —“ At Mr. M‘ can’s station, JvhvnW Liver, they first catch a kangaroo, tiien they dress him np in a man’s coat firmly secured on him ; they now tic a bell securely round the neck of the tripod, and take him away early in the morning. He, of course, makes for his friends, the fitter cannot make out what is advancing towards them in such unusual attire, and with musical honors, so they make off at full speed, fo lowed by their friend, until they exhaust themselves ; they are now. easily taken and despatched by the'-bushmen and dogs. is Mortify of the cutest Yankee, and iti author is Mr. •John ■ Calvin, one of Mr. M‘Bean’s > supers.”

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