MR ALEXANDER IN EXPLANATION.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 177, 1 April 1873, Page 5

MR ALEXANDER IN EXPLANATION.

To the, Editor of the Cromwell Argus. Sir, —In your last issue, under Hie heading of “Consistency Exemplified,” the two motionwhich you place side by side as reported to Lav; been carried by the Mining Conferenbe may lea ■ explaining. Before commencing, let me first thank you for making it necessary to do so ; and next, that-1 am glad to see you have perused tre report of proceedings more carefully than wh n yon wrote the leading article on the report. Th paragraph under the heading “ Mining Board” is a deal more conspicuous than these motions being both carried, yet you faded to see it, and wrote there was no mention of such. In giving this explanation, I do not do so on account of myself, as it may be that Mr Orombie ami I hold different views regarding Provincial an ; General Government administration, and that each should he anxious to carry measures accor 1I ing to his views. Nor is it the manner jou j have drawui public attention to it that induce i | ma to lift my pen. for it is evident that it is no I an explanation that is desired, but to hold up | the proceedings to ridiciße, an 1 such deserves t > jbe treatel with contempt. But it is in jnstie--1 to the other members of the Conference, whuh is made appear to have voted so as to carry ho i | in itions, that I give the explanation, which is | very simple. On Mr Crmihie’s m >ti»n. a discus* isi<m ensued. A considerable portion of the ! members, as well as myself, were opposed ; an 1 the error lies in Mr Crombie’s moti-m being r i ported to have been carried, which was not the i case, it being withdrawn, and the following no j tion carried in its stead, which reads: j “Mr Alexander moved, and Mr Morrison sc ! flooded, that this Conference requests the Goi vermneut t > place at the disposal of the Mint rs' I Associations the su vey staff free of charge, foi i the purpose of ascertaining the practicabi.ity of such water supply schemes as said A ss- ciations may deem practicable. And further, this l on fcrence consiilers that the present rnks en !o ! which subsidies can now lie obtained- are 100 j stringent, and should he made more el is'ic. so as to embrace private parties,’ and that the su'd Isidv instead of being £1 to £2, should be £1 j to Cl.” ; Ido not wish to call in a volume or correspon dence by asking all the members of the Confe* ; renew to verifv the ex|ilanntiou given, but if an I disputes it. 1 trust they will publicly do so. In justice to the reporter, I may state that the disi cussion was somewhat irregular, or took more j the form of conversation, which may have pro--1 duced the mistake.— 1 am, Ac., i J. Alexander. 1 ClytW; 'Match 20, 1873.