ST. BATHANS. -Sept. 8.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 133, 15 September 1871, Page 3

ST. BATHANS. -Sept. 8.

Resident Magistrates's Coinrr (Befon- E. K. Cart-w, Rsq., K M.)

Thomas Jones was charged bv C<instable Morton with having been drunk and disorderly in a public place, at St. Bathans, on the 2'»t:h June. T >e con. stable stated that the accused, while being taken to the lock-up, resisted, and in doinir »n, met with an accident which necessitated bis being sent to the Dunstan Hospital, and he did not now know where to find him for the purpose of -j;ivini»: him notice to appear upon his recognisance. Charge dismissed. Slaughtering licenses were granted to Archibald M'P oail, Iveenan and Morgan, and to Benjamin WasVr. An application by the* Police that the general license for the Ida Valley Hotel might be cance.led, on the yroun.l that the house had been abandoned for t considerable time, w\< ordered to st hd over to the next .atting, in order that the licensee mirht receive notice of the application, am! he allowed to ;>ut in a oefence if <ie desired to do .^o. Warden's Cor t. (Before E H. Cairw. K.-q., VV rlon ) Turner v. Mill. —Com, I in ir. sou r t to have defend ill"k claim at Kildire Mill declared forfeited, by reason of its having beeu left 'unworued fr »m the 27th May to the 6th ,Uiw\ For the defence it was proved by Mill that he pure! ase<l the claim on t : e 2Gt > May; that; ou the following day the

lafe owners removed their tools from it. an I had a elearin up, and that on M >nday, the 29 n, llsil posted a notice ap/lyinr lor protection, and Indeed a ropy at the Warden's office, but learn in 4 that Turner objected to his claim protected, be put on ni'Mi to work on t y \o 4th, sth, and 6th July. A Warden's Court was he-d on the 6th, but business 'railed him elsewhere and he did not attend, but had heard his application for protection had been '"ailed on and refused. The Warden ruled that the claim was protected under the Herniations, from the time application was made for protection until it was finally disposed of, and judgment for defendant, with costs of Court, lis.

Tle '"ollowinr applications were granted : —Wa f ep races and extensions; rJobert John-stone, Macks to ne Hill, race to Robinson's Spur; John S. Foote, water race from My Gully ; William Smart, extension in Welshman's Gully. fail races : Scandinavian Company; Sutherland and party. —Residence area: Owen Owens.--Protection : William M. Wade. —Dam : Robert Johnstone.

.lohn S. Foote applied for two dams sit My Gully. These applications were object -d to by Samuel Sutherland, who said he had prospected the ground and found it to be payably auriferous, and that his party desired to work it. Application refused.

Sut'ierum I and party and M/Kechnie and party applied for water races. Objectors, Johnstone and Wade; The applicants admitted there was no natural source of water supply to the gully from which they proposed to head their races, and that they would have to de pend upon tail water which was under the control of the objectors, who were at the present diseharuing into the gully. Both of these applications were refused.

Several applications for extended claims, and one by Thurlow and party to divert water from the Dunstan Creek, beiow t le lower end of the publie channel, were ordered to stand over until the next sitting.