THE WARDEN'S COURT, NASEBY. Tuesday, February 20. Before John S. Hickson, Esq.,' Warden-. applications. The following applications for mining privileges were heard and granted William .Bromiley, drain-race, Roach's G-ully ; G-eorge Brown, water-race, at the foot of Mount Burster. A PECULIAR AFFAIR. Spillard and Blair, of Naseby, applied for an extended claim of two acres, situated on the spur between Enterprise and Wet Gullies. : The application was objected to by a party of e<ght Chinamen, and the objection was made upon the following grounds:— (1) That the application was entirely informal, not being in accordance with the Regulatious. (2) That the area applied for was held under certificate from the Warden, which had not been cancelled, and which was therefore still in operation. (3) That the holders of the certifica'e, having tested the ground, had found it to be of so unpayable a nature that they had utilised it by forming a garden, ; upon which a vast amount of labor and a considerable sum of money had besu ex pended. (4) That the application included within its limits the huts and ground which the objectors were entitled to hold tinder their miner's rights (is hut ground ; that the marking was insufficient; and that the neces sary notice had not been served upon-the objectors, whose interests were obviously afiec:ed.
