The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI WEEKLY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1791, 6 December 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI WEEKLY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1886.

The following is the judgment delivered by His Honor Judge Broad in the appeal case of M 'Kenny and others v. Callings and others :— His Honor Judge Broad said : A special claim is an exceptional privilege, granted for some of the particular reasons mentioned in sec. 93 0 f "The Mines Act, 1877." The grant prescribes the conditions upon which the claim may be held, occupied, worked, and forfeited. Such claims are not subject t o the mining lease regulations, not being mining leases within the meaning of the Act. No mode is prescribed in which the cancellation of a special claim by the Governor is to be notified. In the present oase a notice had appeared in the Government Gazette, signed by the Minister of Mines, that the apecial claim had been cancelled by the Governor, and that the ground was open for application as if no special claim had been granted. The Warden held that tbi was not enough notification of the fact, and that before any person could take up the ground there must be a notice in a local newspaper of the cancellation of the grant In so deciding I think the Warden was wrong, and this appeal must therefore be allowed with costs, 112 12s. The sitting of the District Court, before Hia Honor Judge Broad, opened on Satnrday morning. The first case was an action by W. Lynch and others to recover £200 danwues from the luansgahua County Council, for alleged interference with plaintiffs registered mining privi- | leges, at Boatman's. Mr Jones with Mr | North, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr j Lynch for the rt«fi«oeo. Plaintiff held a I claim ill Boatman's Oreek, and as certain I fad w<nl;s in tliu locality could not be ! «»rried on without injury to him, fho Cfiliicil uv.ai -<le \ T,40 c>iiipeii=P.tion f..r t?)e rivht of c urvii''.' on thii work. Plaintiff the'! o'.'aint'd pvotoc- ion for hist claim, (fid i.:ft the dint rift, and did not rctnvn for U'Hii'' tint", and when be did !i" fcutd his cliiim injured to t?n> anionnt of the *!ninages claimed. A f/ood deal of evidence was taken, after which h verdict wnu given for plaintiff, ''ani-wcs L3O «»d co«tfs. Tim ca»« was heard Iwfora a jury, of whom Mr G. Black wasohoson f'lrvm.-ui The next ease on the list whs M'Konncy and party v. ColHiiga and party. Thia was an appeal from the NV.irdt.-ivs C tut. The part.til wcw rivai nj.j»-!':m»s for the cancelled.

special claim of the result Company. M' ' Kenneyantt party pegged off the ground immediately after the notification of canI cellation appeared in the Government Gazette, Colling* and party not pegging until after the notification hod heen publish^ 1.-cally. At the hearing the Warden held ti.at the ground was not open for occupation until after the notice of cancellation had appeared in a local newsiwper, and therefore ruled that the prior Vcpsi"C*»" baJ « and t » wurt^ d the B wiunjl to Collingi and party. Against this decision an appeal was lodged, on the ground that local publication of the notice of cancellation was not necessary in the case of special claims. The appeal was upheld. Mr North moved for an order to wind «p the Great Western Gold Mining Company, which was granted. Mr Lynch moved for a rule nisi calling upon the manager of the Bank of New Zealand *a show cause why his name should not he removed from the register of the Glob* Company, and the name of the Deputy Assiguee in Bankruptcy inserted therein, in respected of 1250 shares, the property of the insolvent estate of John Prentice. The rule was granted, to be argued at the next sitting of the Court. Mr Lynch applied for letters of administration of the estate of Hugh Brennan, deceased. The estate wa* sworn under Ll6O. Order granted. The winding-up proceedings of the Oriental, Orlando, Morning Star, and Golden Arch Companies respectively were adjourned till next Court day. A meeting of the shareholders of the Electric Light Company will be held at Dawson's Hotel, at 3 p.m. to-day. We are informed that in the event of the company not providing for the supply of electrical power, as well as lighting, there is every probability of tome of the mining companies at Boatman's combining to do so. The forged bank notes which where put in circulation in Melbourne during the race time represented a very large sum of money, and bookmakers were extensively victimised on the Flemington course. They were neat pen and ink sketch notes for £10— exact copies of the bonafide paper at a casual glance, and the raceß offered a capital opportunity for their disposal. The Age referring to the matter says ;—" Perpetrators of frauds of this description usually confine themselves, for obvious reasons, to counterfeiting the notes of a single institution. It is palpably much easier, whither the forgery be affected by lithography or skilfully by hand, to turn out a number of notes purporting to be issued by one institution than to produce notes of several different banks namely, the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered, and the London Chartered, and the Federal Bank,— and » considerable number of the note* of each bank have been put into circulation. Tha counterfeits in the case of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank are confined so far as is, known to £10 notes. These are apparently in very extensive circulation. Experts in penmanship assert that the note of this bank may very easily be copied, inasmuch as its design is comparatively simple in style. There would seem to be some truth in this assertion, for it is not so long since many hundreds of similar counterfeits were circulated in Sydney. It is a capital imitation, and is apparently a tracing with a pen on paper which is a degree lighter in texture and colour than the genuine note : but it will not bear close inspection. The uneveness of the light up strokes is particularly noticeable when examined carefully, and in other respects there are points of difference. Mr 1. Clarkson, photographer, is now prepared to execute pur traits of the highest quality aud excellence, at reasonable prices. Having established a permanent studio in Reefton, and procured the latest and most perfect apparatus, he trusts to meet with liberal patronage aud support. | Advt.