CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 15 May 1869, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

o A REFUSED APPLICATION.

(To tlie Editor of the Tuapeka Times.)

Sib,— rln case you should not have received a report of an instance of maladministration in the Warden's Court, I forward the particulars for the information of miners in the district, and to show them the very dangerous position they are placed in by the interpretation of our Warden, and by his exercise of groat and extraordinary descretionary power, and I think it will be seen it is high time for us to petition Government for a board of wardens. The case I allude to is that of Vernon's, Tuapeka Mouth, for an extended mining claim, adjoining one he originally held in partnership with Charles Anderson, now bankrupt. J. Herbert, on account of Bathgate, Trustee in Anderson's estate, objected to the granting of the application on the ground that it included part of the claim originally held by Vernon and Anderson, and which Bathgate now claimed for Anderson's creditors. The objector,' J. Herbert, gave evidence, but could not definitely prove boundaries of the claim he claimed any further than that Anderson had once thrown a stone on the spur and said the claim was there. He also asserted it was a two acre claim that Vernon and Anderson originally held together, but the evidence o£ -the certlfic;«.te proved it was simply an extended claim under the old block system. 10. Herbert was al-o examined, but only proved the same fact about throwing the stone. T. Leather, also gave evidence for objector, but he knew nothing of the boundaries of the claim ; he had once worked in it. Vernon and Anderson gave evidence in support of the application, both swearing positively that the new application included the part of the claim formerly held together. The Warden withheld granting the application, and even went so far as, to order Vernon to stop working in the claim, which will incur a great loss, as it throws a man out of work, with two heads of water running to waste. lam &c, A Minek.

Tuapeka Mouth, May 10th.