WARDEN'S COURT.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1555, 1 June 1885, Page 2

WARDEN'S COURT.

« — ■ , . (Befor* Mr Warden Bird.) Tharaday, May 38th, 188*. Just-ik-TivbahsFkstGkobb CqMkajit T. J. B. BXSCH ASD THB NaTKWAI. Bakk of New Z&alakd (Limitad). This wat an application f~r Urn eaftcollation »f tha water rig'.t h*ld by defendaats in Boatman's C "•ek, an tk« t^roond of nan-complianc* with Urn conditions of grant. Mr Menteath appeared for tiw applicants and Mr Lynch for the defend* ant*. Mr Ljnoh applied to hare the ease heard befere assessors, requesting that assessors mi^ht be new sn»mooed. Mr Menteath strongly pretested. against a«y such steps being tatken, and charaeterisftd the applieatt^n }H rather strong terras. He saM if the defendants roqnired asseesort, the proper steps should b*ve been taken to seenra the attendance of disinterested persons to act an sneh. If the application were now granted, %h* Court wonld hare to draw asseasers from the pnWlic in the body of the Court, a meet improper thing to da * After some* jtrfoenent ' between eoansel the Warden said, assaeset* wonld have to be sittniewad in the ordinary way by ballot, and to enable this* te be done he adjearned the c^aa till tije next sitting of the Gonrt. Ljtt&b Boatman's Tv ■ fax Co. t. Comstock Co. In thik ease, which had been adjourned for a length ef time past, Mr. Lynch applied for its withdrawal, which was granted.