THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2625, 7 June 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1877.

In the Warden's Court to-day a number of cases brought by the Inspector of Miners' Eights were heard, in several instances companies being the defendants. There were in all 32 cases set down for hearing, but over twenty of them were settled out of Court, the defendants having taken out miners' rights, since the complaints were laidby the Inspector. In threeinstances defendants—able-bodied men—pleaded that they were unable to take out rights, owing to adverse circumstances. One has had a'house for three years without any title, and another for two years. The Warden informed these defendants that they had very lenient landlords in the Native owners of the soil, and that very few Europeans would show them the same amount of consideration. He also advised them • to take out rights at once, as until they did this they were at anybody's mercy who might wish to obtain a residence site. In the. case of another defendant who pleaded poverty as the reason for not taking out a right, His Worship said he couldn't be so badly off when he could sport a watch and chain, and the defendant admitted that sometimes he had plenty of money and sometimes none, and when the latter was the case he got- credit until better times returned. He had a whare too, but he generally lived at a boarding house. Two cases were adjourned for a month, and ia the instance of defendant who had a watch and chain a fine of 40s and costs was inflicted.

The progress lately made by the Waitekauri Company must be very gratifying to those shareholders who have held on to their interests and been so sanguine of success at times when matters did not look very promising. The Waitekauri may now fairly rank amongst the dividend paying mines, and the dividends should be regular. To-day at a meeting of directors a dividend of two shillings per share was declared, which will absorb £2025 of the £394.2 11s 9d, the proceeds of last month's crushing. A sum of £718 15s. 7d was paid to Messrs Brown and Bleazard on account of the baltery, and general accounts to the sum of £531 Os 2d, leaving a credit balance of £667 16s 7d. These results should induce the shareholders of other claims at Waitekauri to prosecute their works more vigorously, for what is now being done by the Waitekauri Company could also be done by many others. The district is large, the reef system extensive, and only a little capital and energy are wanted to rapidly extend the industry so well represented by the Waitekauri Company.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the County Council was commenced to day at the Council Chambers, Pollen street, at half-past two o'clock. The reading of the minutes and other routine business occupied some time, and the more important matters had scarcely been touched upon when we went to press, so that our report is necessarily excluded till tomorrow. The Davenports were to leave Auckland for Sydney, yesterday, one of the brothers who is consumptive being peremptorily ordered to a warmer climate by his medical attendant. ' Inquiey is being made by: Winslow Morton, of 19, Clifton Road, Worthing, Sussex, England, respecting his son, William Morton, or W. B. Morton, whom he last heard of at the Thames goldlleld about eight years ago, " '

. We have received the. Illustrated New Zealand Herald for Ma3 r. It contains a very intens ing series of sketches and a well digested summary of the news of the month.