HASTINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4087, 27 August 1884, Page 2

HASTINGS.

* [from oun own cobeespondent.] ' Wednesday. A meeting of the directors of the Gold Mining Prospecting Association was held/ I last evening, Mr Tanner in the chair. " A > letter was read from Mr Harding stating i- that he was willing to allow the company to prospect on his land on tho same terms as Mr Anderson had agreed to, but that ho was willing to accept ] 0 per cent; '_ on the actual profits, instead of 10 per cent.' ' on the gross profits, on condition that Messrs McLeod and Ross gave up their 200 l nou-contributing shares to the company, i A letter from Capt. Russell, enclosing one , from Dr. Hector, was also read. In tho i letter from Dr. Hector to Capt. Russell ho said, " The amalgam you left contained 50 per cent, of gold; there was copper , and a few specks of white metal not;do- , terminable." Capt. Russell,advised that , stone should be sent down to be tested at Wellington. Mr M'Leod produced a parcel of gold which ho said weighed 14 grains, and that he had obtained it from about 17 pounds of stone that Mr Ross had brought down from the Kereru. It was agreed, with Mr McLeod's consent, to send it to Wellington to be tested, and that, as there was still about £30 in hand, to send up and get two or three hundred weight of best stone and send to Captain Russell xts get well tested in Wellington. The secre- -. tary was instructed to write to Mr Anderson asking him to allow the company an extention of time for prospecting, as by the agreement their time expires on the 10th September. George attended tho meeting, and brought some stone from Mr Harding a run.

and stated that the weather had been So bad and so much snow lying on the ground, that he had not been able to prospect the place properly. ' The stone he brought down showed more of a quartz nature in it than what came from Mr Anderson's run _ The Fisher Burlesque and Pantomime Company aro going to perform here in our Town Hall on Thursday and Friday, when it is to be hoped they will get full houses. The Native Lands Court is at last at an end here, for the present at any rate, and we shall not see quite so many of our dusky brothers and sisters in our township for a time. It must be said of them that this time they have conducted themselves quietly and properly. If only they would not sit on the doorsteps of all the buildings in tlie township quite as much as they did they would have been no trouble.