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their products—gold, coal, and timber—are those of entirely unprotected industries, their whole working population is taxed to support industries in other provinces from which they not only derive no benefit, but by which they are heavily handicapped in the price of all articles of use and consumption and in the inferior quality, in many instances, of the goods they buy. , The following is the return of cases disposed of in the Magistrate's and Warden's Court at Greymouth for the year ending the 31st March, 1900 : Civil, 194 ; criminal, 142 ; Warden's, 25. The revenue for the year amounted to £4,140 Bs. 6d., made up as follows : Warden's department, £3,782 18s. 3d. : Magistrate's, £294 15s. 3d. ; licensing-fees, £62 155.: total. £4,140 Bs. 6d. The particulars of revenue collected in the Warden's Court at Greymouth for the year ending the 31st March, 1900, are as follows : Miners' rights, £291 10s.; water-races, £8 17s. 6d. ; registrations, £5 lis.; rents, £2,002 9s. sd-.; fees and fines, £39 55.; miscellaneous, £1.435 ss. 4d. : total, £3,782 18s. 3d.

List of Prospecting Licenses for Dredging Purposes granted in the Warden's Court, Greymouth, from 1st April, 1899, to 31st March, 1900.

Date of Grant. To whom Lii Joseph Taylor and another Joseph Taylor Thomas Rose Olaf Magnus Daniel Sheedy William McKechnie John Gieseking George Gage F. Wallace McKenzie Thomas Jones J. D. Gillies G.D.Wilson Joseph Taylor John Meiklejohn N. D. Hood . J. T. R. Delaney J. D. Gillies P. F. Daniel George Gage John McKenzie Pero P. White J. McCarthy John Nyberg T. G. Davis P. Gillin .. Joseph Taylor John Byrne William Wardell William H. Brady .. C. R. Skelly Robert Gregory J. C. Gittos Thomas Oxenham Daniel Sheedy H. W. Kitchingham B. McGuire and another James Ring James Keeney P. Gillin .. Adam Wilson M. C. Roche George Gilbert Thomas McCarthy .. Thomas Oxenham .. Benjamin Hurst R. W. Parkinson J. W. Parkinson N. D. Hood Robert Russell Henry Jones T. Saunders Thomas Derby William Wilson James Isdell George H. Russell .. Joseph Taylor T. R. Delaney Martin Parkes John Byrne J. W. Callwell John Ryan C. L. Morice R. Nancarrow Daniel Liddy H. Seebeck and another H. Jones G. Gilbert .. To whom License granted icense g] granted Area granted. Acres, 56 40 18 90 15 32 24 96 50 80 24 24 40 50 40 100 40 3 63 50 32 24 40 100 100 40 20 100 64 64 90 20 20 24 50 84 76 90 40 .. 100 25 80 .. 100 40 20 85 85 60 32 32 100 100 .. 100 65 .. 100 ■»• 56 60 30 100 100 100 .. 100 100 100 30 60 Locality. 1899. April 27 May 10 July 1 . 1 » 11 . 11 Aug. 22 , 22 22 Sept. 11 „ 11 i, 11 „ 11 » 11 „ 11 „ 11 „ 11 „ 11 „ 11 „ 11 „ 26 „ 26 » 26 „ 26 Oot. 9 9 9 9 9 „ 9 9 9 9 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 ,. 25 „ 25 „ 25 ., 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 ,. 25 ,. 25 ., 25 .. 25 „ 25 ,, 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 „ 25 '„ 25 Grey River. North Beach. Grey River. New River. Grey River. Paroa (South Beach). Grey Biver. New River. North Beach (Twelve-mile). Arnold River (Kaimata.). Grey River. New River. South Beach, near New River. New River. Grey River. Ten-mile Creek. Arnold River. Near Canoe Creek. Grey River. North Beach. Saltwater Creek, near Paroa. Grey River. Stillwater Creek. Grey River. Saltwater Creek, near Paroa. Ntar Borough of Greymouth. Grey River. Stillwater Creek. North Beach. Grey River. New River. Teremakau River. Infant's Ct-eek, near Marsden. Paroa. South Beach, near Paroa. Darkies' Terrace, Point Elizabeth. Grey River. Arnold Biver. Stillwater Creek. Kaimata. New River. Near New River. Italian Creek, near Dunganville. Irishman'n Creek, near Marsden. New River. Grey River. North Beach. Near Paroa. North of Barrytown. Candlelight Creek. Near Twelve-mile Creek. Near Infant's Cresk. Stillwater Creek. Near Cameron's.