THE WARDEN'S COURT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 70, 12 June 1869, Page 3

THE WARDEN'S COURT.

(To the Editor of the TuapeJca Timer) Sib,— ln your issue of the 29th May, I J notice a letter signed "Another Miner, "7 referring to the application by VernonJ of Tuapeka Mouth, for an extended mining claim, and suggesting the callirj of a public meeting to discuss the groundf of the Warden's refusal to grant th 7 application. Now, sir, I fully agree wU the suggestion, as with the exception^ the privilege of the press, it is the dy chance we have to get our grievajes remedied. But allow me to premise/at if there had been a full and correct r/ort of the hearing of the application pubped in your journal, it would have beei*een the Warden had no just cause to ifus& or postpone the granting of the plication, without having resource to jtfublic meeting ; and I consider it necessity for the due protection of the mining^mmunity against an officer holding sm arbitrary power as a Warden does, id who, from ignorance or other causes may be disposed to administer justice /artially, that all proceedings in the garden's Court should be fully reported/ Sir, I do not think our mden can have considered the loss to if country, as well as to the owners of th/claims, by by the stoppage of a sluicingZaim, or he would not be so ready to sspend work on so slight grounds ; all 7asses suffer, but the revenues of the c/ony, whence he derives his salary, mov particularly. If Mr. Warden had give? a conple of years' work. and spent sweral hundred pounds in material, as hp been done in Vernon's case to get wate/to work ground, and then have to staii/idly by and see that water running to wste four months, in the wet season, he/would have some idea of the loss ineurr/d. In reference to "Another Miner," I beg to state I have n/ objection to attend and state my case before any public meeting ; and I think, injustice to the Warden, he should be iiyitedto attend also. By inserting the aoove in your journal, you will oblige / / E. Vbrxon. Tuapeka MouthMh June, 1869.