RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1074, 23 May 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Tuesday, Mat 20. (Before Joseph Giles. Esq., E.M ) CIVIL CASES. Patterson v. M'Sbane. —Claim for £6 9s 4d, goods sold and delivered. Judgment for plaintiff for full amount claimed, and costs, ISs, Draghicavicb v. Charles M'Carthy.— Plaintiff in person. Mr Shapter for defendant. Claim for £29 lis 6d, balance due for board and lodging. Judgment for plaintiff in full 'amount claimed, and costs 255. Clarke v. Gagihality ; and Patterson v. Prytherick.—Adjourned. e WESTPORT WARDEN'S COURT. Tuesday, May 20. (Before J. Giles, Esq., Warden.) APPLICATIONS. GOLD MIXING LEASES. The applications of Fahey and others, Halligan and others, Richard Hume, O'Toole and others, and Hussey and others, were reconu mended. AGRICULTURAL LEASE. Philip M'Enroe. —Recommended. DAMS. Richard Webdale and three others. —Re-registration of dam, 100 feet by 500 feet, Middle Terrace, Caledonian. Granted. John Landy.—Dam across Black Ball Creek, at Darkies' terrace, one mile east of the Black Ball store. Objected to by John O'Rourke and party on the ground that the site applied for is on the lead for which water is about to be brought in. Postponed until next sitting of the Court, to receive surveyor's report. John Hamilton.—Special site, half an acre, south side of Maori Creek, about one mile from the junction with the Mokihinui. Granted. Size to be reduced if Warden-thinks necessary. RACES. Charles Brandes and four others.— Head water-race from Wardrope and Brown's slaughter yard, Caledonian terrace, to applicants' northern dam, German terrace, one mile and a-half, N. and S. Granted. T. Dickman and three others.— Head race from Fern Tree Gully to existing head race at the Orawaiti river, 20 yards N. and b. Granted j subject to no enlargement of present water right held by the Orawaiti race. Same.—Head-race from Pine Gully to Orawaiti race, 20 yards N and S. Granted; subject to similar restriction. Same.—Head race from Government Cfeek to Orawaiti race, 30 ya-ds N. and 8., two sluice-heads. Granted for 20 inches. Philip F. Thiele.—To alter course of registered tail race, to a course 500 yds E. and W. through dam formerly held by John Sleigh. Granted OxBtJT, Stitt, Towndrow, Seaton, M'Kenna, Hanlon, Batcheldar, Clark, Wilson, Muckle, Hassen, M'Neckan For head race, commencing 40 yards above northern boundary of applicant's 'ciaim. Water to be taken from branch creek running into Maori Gully and terminating at machine site, No 1. North. Three miles N.E byS.W. Granted, Eight heads. John Landy.— Head water race, commencing at dam across Black Ball Creek, Darkies Terrace, and terminating in tail race held by Myles M-Phadden on Addison's Flat. Three fourths of a mile E. and W. Granted. John Hamilton.—Head water race from Maori Creek to machine site, No. 2 North. Half a mile E. and W., four heads. Granted conditionally, on sufficient names being supplied. EXTENDED CLAIM. Bartholomew O'Rourke and five others. Abandoned ground south side of Waimaugaroa, double area. Granted. "warden's case. Halligan and Berne against John

O'Rourke and five others. Mi 1 Shapter for defendants. Complainants claimed to have marked out on the 4th April last an area at Frenchman's Terrace, Addison's, and on the 15th of April made application for a lease of such land, and paid the necessary deposit of £2O. They now complained that the defendants had encroached upon such area on the lsth April, and marked off a portion thereof as a goldmining lease for their own purposes. Judgment given for plaintiffs.