WARDEN'S COURT.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3935, 9 August 1881, Page 2

WARDEN'S COURT.

Yestebday. (Before H. Kenrick, Esq., Warden.) HOLLIB V. SCANLIN.

This case was called on again after the cases against Mr JEhrenfried were disposed of yesterday, and consequently after we went to press. The case was an application for the forfeiture of a piece of ground known as the Sank of Scotland claim, situate at Waitekauiri, and included in tke Waitekauri Extended.Gr.M. Co., on the ground of non working! The evidence adduced went to prove that a man named Mungovan pegged out the claim in 1878, intending to work it, he having supposed that himself and bis mate (Scanlan) would get assistance from Mr Hogg, of the Thames. It seems Mr Hogg backed out, and Mungovan authorised the defendant to take the claim up, though it bad not been registered.—The defendant deposed

that he had no interest in ihe claim at present, but if it were banded over to him he would-work it.—His Worship held that under the Act, which gave any person who had pegged out an unregistered claim with the in ention'of working it, a right to hold the same for 21 years, there was. nothing to warrant his declaring the ground forfeited, as there was no existing " right" to forfeit, the ground having been practically abandoned by the defendant and Mungovan three months after they had pegged it out. —The ground will therefore remain in the hands of the Waitekauri Extended G.M. Co.