WARDEN'S COURT.-Feb. 24.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 209, 28 February 1873, Page 3

WARDEN'S COURT.-Feb. 24.

(Before H. W. Eobinson, Esq., Warden.)

Guflie and another v. White and another.—The complaint is, that the defendants have unlawfully interfered with the complainants' tailrace, by pegging out an ordinary claim thereon, and sinking holes, whereby said tail-race will be rendered insecure and dangerous. Mr. Hertslet for complainants, Mr. Eowlatt for defendants. After the complainants' case had "been heard, and it being stated by them, that they had pegged out the same claim, and intended to bring a suit to try the right to the ground, it was arranged that the case be adjourned sine die, to allow them to do so.

February 25th. G-uffie and another v. "White and another.—Complaint, (1) that a claim of two men's ground, marked out by defendants, oa the boundary of complainants 5 lease area, Clarke's Diggings, and on the line of tail-race No. 2190, held by complainants, was not, on the 21st inst., properly marked out in terms of section 1 regulation 2 of the G-oldfields Rules and Regulations ; (2) that a portion of the ground so marked out by defendants, is within the limit of a mining lease area held by •complainants. Mr. Rowlatt, who appeared for defendants, before pleading, objected that the complaint contained no allegation which could support a decree of forfeiture or abandonment, that before any forfeiture could be decreed there must be something to forfeit. Complaint dismissed with 21s. professional costs, and 20s. expenses.

EESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COUET

February 21st. (Before W. Grumitt, Esq., J.P.) Thomas Moore was charged by Constable Pilkington, with being drunk and disorderly in the public street, the previous day. The accused said that if lie was allowed "another chance, he would never get drunk any more. 1 ' Fined in 205., or twenty-four hours imprisonment. (Before H. W. Robinson, Esq., E.M.) On the 24th, the accused was again brought up, charged with the same offence, and also with indecent exposure. Fined in 405., or forty-eight hours' imprisonment, with hard labor ; and for the second offence, was committed to the Naseby gaol for fourteen days, with hard labor.