RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT. CLYDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 960, 10 September 1880, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT. CLYDE.

Thursday. h’r.iTiAißtu Onr. (Before Jackson Keddcll, Esc,.. 11. M.) C. T. Marie was summonsed by .1. ifolfc for using threatening language provocative of a breach of the peace—to wit—l will ran this fork through you. Tire evidence

was somewhat conllieting—the informant and a witness swearing that the language

complained of was made use of without any provocation, while the defendant deposed that he used the language to intimidate inform mt from throwinga bigstoue at him which he had picked up and had in his hand. The bench in summing up said the weight of evidence against defendont and would bind him over to keep the peace for throe m mths himself in LT) and two sureties in LlO each.

WARDEN'S COURT. Application by Mr M'Ferran for surplus water of Wai Keri Keri Creek was adjourned si/ic die ; also, was an application by IT. Borendt for a tail-race in the Wai Keri Keri creek, pending the settlement of negotiations between the Government, the miners in the locality, and Mr J. D. Fcraud for the purchase of an area of fifty acres of freehold in the centre of the valley. [Ry the way of settling this long vexed question, we are given to understand the Government are agreeable to give the half of the sura demanded by Mr Fcraud, providing the miners give the other half. The sum asked tor the land is L 550 at the rato of LlO 10s per acre, and an undisputed right to one head of water from the Wai Keri Keri Creek.]