ST. BATHANS.-Aug. 18.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 285, 21 August 1874, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.-Aug. 18.

Resident Magistbate's Coubt. (Before H. A. Stratford, Esq., R.M.) Police V. R. Wheeler.—For having conducted business at St. Bathans, on the Goldfieids, without y business license, from the 10th of June to the 15th August, 1874. Fined £1 55.; costs for hearing, and order, 65.; balance of costs remitted. John Morgan was granted an extended claim. Robert Brown applied for residence area. Objected to by Smart and others. Adjourned to September Ist. Thomas Rowe was granted protection for ninety days for a claim at Kildare Hill. James Halley, for himself and Towers. Adjourned Application for special claim. James Halley informed the Warden that, acting upon his suggestion, he had applied to the shareholders for their written consent, that the deed for the, special claim should be for Halley and Towers only; that some of them were willing, and others not. He did not know what else he could do in the matter, nor did he

see that anybody was preventing him from getting the claim but the Warden himself; that he and Towers had been promoters of the enterprise, and that he considered they were the only persons entitled to the fifteen acres; tiat there would have been no objections if the Warden himself had not objected, and that he did not suppose he intended to let hiui have it. Tne Warden replied that he would not -tolerate his insolence on the one hand, nor allow his remarks to prevent him from doing what was manifestly just in the case. If the other shareholders desired to receive a portion of the only reward that could be expected to be given for the one enterprise in which they had taken part, it would be very unfair, against their wishes, to recommend the Government to grant the reward to Halley and Towers alone, and prevent the other shareholders from participating in its enjoyment. If these had given their consent to the proposed arrangement, it would then have been no longer the Warden's business to insist on their names being inserted on the deed. Mr. Halley's remarks, that the Warden had investigated the matter, and had caused the other shareholders to know what he (Halley) was doing, is quite true, and it would have been a neglect of duty, when he (the Warden) knew that there were other shareholders, not to have enquired the reason that their names did not appear upon the application; as, if hereafter they had applied for more ground as a reward, the Government would naturally reply that the enterprise had already been sufficiently rewarded, and that the claims for reward should have been put in, to have been considered, with those of Halley and Towers. If Mr. Halley wished to amend'the application, join the other shareholders with himself and Towers, and ask for a larger area of separate claims, the Warden then wouldbe willing to entertain such an application,. and recommend that the two promoters of the scheme should have more, in proportion, than all the rest. He added that he would be willing to forward the application to the Government immediately, reporting his reasons for not recommending it as it stood,, and it would be competent for Mr. Halley to write to tne Superintendent at the same time, giving his version of the affair. Mr. Halley then asked that the application might be allowed to stand over until Warden Robinson's return, as he would rather that he entertained the matter. The Warden replied - that he had no objection to this, and he would adjourn the matter until the 29th September for that purpose. The application of James Duff to purchase an agricultural lease area of 9a. lr. 26p., section 22, block 111., Blaokstone District, he having held the same for three years, was recommended. The application of the Scandinavian Water Race Company for the Last Push Company's Channel, at St. Bathans, for a special claim, was recommended, subject to conditions to be read out at the Court House, St. Bathans, on the Ist September.