WARDEN'S COURT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 459, 30 January 1869, Page 2

WARDEN'S COURT.

Friday, Jan. 29. (Before J. Giles, Esq.; Warden.) Alexander M'Crae, bootmaker, was charged, on the information of Constable Neville, with carrying on business without a business license. The defendant's statement was that until lately he had been digging, and was unable to pay the license until Thursday. The Warden could not entirely overlook a case of the kind. To allow people to neglect paying their licenses until they were summoned would only encourage a breach of the law. He would impose a small fine of £l, with 13s. costs. The defendant: I cannot pay it, your Worship. The Warden: In default of payment, imprisonment for three days. A similar case against one Whitly was withdrawn, the summons bavin" been mis-sen el. Eccles v. Patterson.—The complaint of the complainants in this case was that the respondents were illegally draining water from Deadman's creek, and not complying with section 10 of the Regulations, by which a sluico-head of 20 inches of water must be left free for use. Mr Tyler appeared for the complainants, and, after stating the difference between the old and tho new Regulations, called evidence with the intention of showing that the water was wanted for general use. Under the old regulations, race-holders were bound to leave two sluice-heads. The complainants only asked for one. The Warden thought it would be un-

satisfactory to give a decision without the evidence of a surveyor as to the creek, and the possibility of any other source of water supply. These cases were important. It was a serious matter that holders of water-races should be cut off, and equally important that other parties should not be excluded, and, to give the complainants time to obtain the services of a surveyor, he adjourned the case.