GRAHAMSTOWN.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1658, 11 June 1875, Page 3

GRAHAMSTOWN.

(From our Own Correspondent.) This day. The goldfields traffic up the Waiotahi is likely to be stopped through want of a piece of road, the making of which would cost about £500. This morning the carters refused to take timber up, and a number of tributers have quailz that cannot be brought down to the mills. The road is in the borough, but as tho Provincial Council did not vote any money they can do nothing. At the present time it is nearly £5.000 in debt. Nearly one hundred men Mall be thrown out of employment if nothing is done. , "The Advertiser, in reference to Tairua, says : "The people of the Thames will resent the sermon on morals from the Star. No doubt the Star is moved by a stern sense of justice and by a morality infinitely above anything which it thinks can exi_t on the Goldfields, but it is wrong and badly informed. It says—" If those who claim prior discovery had applied, for a prospecting area, every man on the Goldfield would have cried out, 'Let each man have three, four, or five men's ground allotted to him ;' but they did not d® this, and made arrangements to get prior information of when a certain proclamation was to be issued; and so secured thirty acres or eighty-eight men's ground. The Star talks about " rights deliberately bargained for and sanctioned before the field was proclaimed. We ask why * did those who claim to be prospectors not bargain for a Prospectors' Claim ? What right had they to bargin for anything else. As for those who objected to a license been granted to the Tairua Gold Mining Company, we are not aware upon what grounds they object. AH we say, is let the matters in dispute be fairly tried. If the Government were to interfere, and to supersede the law courts in every case in which they considered from an ex parte statement of the circumstances that those who had their ear and political influence had justice on their side, then there would be neither law nor justice in New Zealand."