A GOLDMINING CASE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3414, 19 February 1920, Page 5

A GOLDMINING CASE.

MINESALTING ALLEGED. ‘WELLINGTON, this day. At the Supreme Court Angelina Bernard, of Lyall Bay, sought. to recover from William Browning, engineer, of Wellington, £6OO damages for alleged fraudulent misrepresenta.ti6'il, whereby plaintiff was induced to purchase for £SOO certajning mining scrip in a Westland proposition, known as Bag--ley’s Reward old Mining Company. Ev‘l~ deuce for the plaintiff alleged that samples assayed were picked, not from average stone, and high values were, therefore misleading. One witness stalted that some stone came from an adjoining claim. HQ alleged that Browning told him to take specimen stone to Bagley R(.'\7‘V_'fl\l'd, and “throw ‘it -about’’ so that ‘they would be found by visitors when the latlter came "in the course ofthe nexfi few days,

Defendnnt denied the 'allegation of fraudulent nlisropmsentation. He lost his own money in the mine, but still befieved that. if ‘the propel-ty developed the company would’ strike it rich. The case 'is ‘unfin'ished.