Our Pigeon. Goldfield' Budget.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1655, 8 June 1875, Page 2

Our Pigeon. Goldfield' Budget.

[From thi__Hioraing____" T_____e_? Advhß* J* tiser."] '" n irr^- ± ~r~ _i:;:.-!°t."»,* <__BaK<, ../>■■ THE ABOLITION SCHEME^ " " At last we have a sketeh-ol<-^e~ _hea____ Hfce be proposed on the subject of local gov«»*.i. 'ment. , We consider it" certain "that the Government -will- lay- a. measure before, thflf Housed-hot probably with' the- - expectation J that itwill-beJlfasßed^-btit; in ord« to; jiaYe <- something io go to th.. coiintry upon. - It is needless to criticise .the .^details which are^... published, as., t___ 3Vf-««-^m_y ,be.rWroiig'*■''" o _£these. We should be sorry if th* measure.: •' prove^of _6^Mo-_e/' f.^ as is indicated; fih_^lwe_t_m),£We ■ uowtoi^l, ment {would have.done better ' to_ave taken,, up a firmer position. We may iiqw expec«or _ have any day a'fuller revelation of the detail* *■'-. of the measure. * : .._._.,-:- THE ipHQSPECTOKS' DISPUTE, ..'. " V~ - TAIRUAV -'-'*■•-i:';' The Auckland a.telegram "froih the Thames in" reference-tb-the reports that Dr. -?ollen had decided to take "ihe XJ Prospectors' claim" out of ■ the-gold-eld at Tairua, and alluding, to a clause in its tele* gram, in which we are stated to have wid, • -''-Sir George Grey having declined to break . - th§ laWyWe pr.s_.m_ ___.~Polleff will act in sjiite of binj, " .says : —" If there is-any x dangerj of tie1 Prospedtdrs' being deprived of their just rights., by somelegal quibble, we think ,the sooner the prospec|Qra' v £area ii: taken but of the goldfield the" betier. It ia surely seme thing new for fche,__„--.fc_W r.to 1 'become the organ of the jumping hj^uuiiff.'h {^ Jj We are 'bound to'assume .that our opßie_»-,_ notary Bpeaks as usual -in' ignorance"of- - facts. The truths.is ithat' thei_ tf no prospectors' claim at Tairua. The parties who ; now hold what -_s /(Jailed the Prospectors? claim there mado no ap^Jiwtion, .- for ground on such a pTea—they simply pegged out after; the "goldfielda wivs 1 proclaimed, prior information 'having been.fj_-_~L «* rushed to them,-itis believe*T~by_a Government Officer. Upon thaf^th^y"-tepended, and not on any claim they had otherwise. But others had-been before them, and certain parties claim to have pegged oat before " the prospectors," and after the proclamation had been issued. If that prove to be so—and all we ask for is that it should be fairly tried in Court—the Tairua_ Gold Mining Company have jumped the claims of Bergin and the other parties, and it is the . Evening Star, which is the organ of the jumpers, not the Advertiser. And if the Government take the ground out of the goldfield they will be taking the same : position. THE NEW BRIGANTINE. v The new brigantine Ethel, m Capt_i__^j3| McLeod, 'sailed yesterday on her maiden *J^3f to Port Lyttelton with a cargo of 135,00fe^8 feet of timber, shipped at the Hauraki Saw • Mills. She was pjldted out of the Thamel -j* Kiver oa Saturday by Captain May. " VAj