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No 15. Return of Cases in the Wardens' Courts, and Costs awarded, for the Year ending 31st December, 1907.

Aggregate Amount of Value. ?-§ = District. Number of Mining Disputes adjudicated on. Amount of < nsls awarded. 2" 5.3 «»si; * Claimed. Recovered. Auckland— Coromandel Thames Te Aroha Paeroa Waihi 18 10 4 69 10 £ s. d. 044 15 6 595 19 10 28 10 0 247 17 9 132 16 10 £ s. d. 28 12 0 899 12 9 8 0 0 84 12 6 34 9 6 £ s. d. 4 4 0 31 17 6 1 6 0 23 1 3 19 11 0 't* Marlborough — Blenheim 5 56 5 0 6 5 0 13 0 0 Nelson — Inangahua Collingwood .. ., Lyell and Murchison Westport Charleston Takaka Wangapeka 11 2 6 8 1 12 6 147 6 6 10 0 0 1 12 6 10 0 0 46 6 0 3 9 1 5 6 6 39 2 0 9t 1" Westland — Kumara Greymouth Hokitika and Kanieri Stafford Ross Ahaura Okarito 10 8 2 2 62 15 9 354 4 6 3 io 0 55 18 9 340 6 0 3'io 0 8 10 2 5 0 113 0 92; 14 604 io 0 154 10 0 14 i3 0 Otago and Southland— Tuapeka Cromwell Roxburgh Black's Clyde and Alexandra Waikaia Orepuki, Longwood, and Riverton .. Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Queenstown Gore Naseby Wyndham 18 2 07 8 H 1 1 2 8 1 66 0 0 16 0 7 117 16 9 93 6 8 28 0 0 15 3 1 117 16 9 47 - 0 0 17 10 0 2 19 0 34 13 1 6 11 0 2 14 0 6 12 0 15 11 0 4* 139 18 5 44 3 9 16 0 0 142 3 5 12 15 0 16 0 0 20i5 0 6 10 4 6' Totals 317 3,383 9 11 1,506 6 9 327 10 9 119 • 7, 1, 4, and 6, forfeiture decreed. t 9 cam :ellation of licenses. I 92 mining a] iplications dealt wi tii