MR. WARDEN SIMPSON AND THE RIGNED PETITION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 360, 30 May 1874, Page 3

MR. WARDEN SIMPSON AND THE RIGNED PETITION.

{To the Editor.) • Slit,— Tri your hut issue, you publish a petition from one Rigney, reflecting gravely , on Warden Simpson's conduct on the Bench. I have no doubt you will not refuse the common justic of " hearing the other part." The facts of the case are as follows: — Rigney and others hod a special chum at the Horseshoe Bend, which did not pay. Woodhouse.lKragirt in, and by the judicious outlay >f>f capital, greatly improved the yield. Still it didnbt^recoup him, owing tor his having to pay wages mm, and Rigney and Stevenson alone reaped the benefit. Then there were squabbles ; and the result was an appeal to the Warden, who granted a dissolution at the "joint request of the parties — in fact, if Mr. - Rigney has a grievance, he has his solicitor to blame and . not the Warden. '- As to Mr. Simpson's demeanor, I may state that I was in Court dtfring most of the proceedings, and was rather under the impression that he gave great latitude to the parties, and only interfered when the time of the Court was being ■wasted by frivolous squabbles, having no connection with the case. It is a most singular feet that Mr. Simpson, after a long and successful career in an important centre like Tuapeka, should be found to be- unfit to admister justice by a Teviot litigant. Your editorial remarks demand comment. Conversant as you no doubt are with mining ■tatters, you must be aware that to work a vast extent — I had almost said all of the remaining auriferous area— capital is an absolute necessity. Capitalists are shy enough alitady ; and' if it is once understood that the mining laws ore to be administered solely for the benefit of men with no means, confidence will be so utterly destroyed in mining speculations as to completely paralyze the industry. The ahrt of a' goldfields paper should be, I take it, in an opposite direction. — I am, &c., Audi Alteeaji Pabtbm. May 22. '