FLUSHING CHANNEL AT BLACK’S.

Dunstan Times, Issue 519, 29 March 1872, Page 2

FLUSHING CHANNEL AT BLACK’S.

Tlic following corre'pandemic has been kindly banded to us for publication Queenstown, Dec. 23, IST I. Messrs. Campbell anl Low Ccntl men, I am desirous tb \t the P •ovincial G wemmeut should neg'ci» I, e with you for the surrender of your pre-emotive right at Black’s, with the vie v of finishing the Flashing channel th re. I should therefore be obliged if you will inform me on wbat terms you will surrender it. or such portion ns may be required, so that I may lay the the same be'oro the Executive. I am, &c., THOMAS L. SHEPHERD. Galloway Station, Dec. 20, IS7I. T. L. Shepher Esq., M.H.R. Sir, — We arc in receipt of your favor of this date, respectins the Surrender of the whole or a part cf our freehold at Black's, and in reply beg to inform you that some months ago wn submitted an otfer to Rio Provincial Government of the whole of onr interest in the pro emptivo right for 1000/., or for cne thousand acres of laud, to be selected in a locality approved of by the Government. This offer was declined. Wc do md wish to stand in the way of the settles at Black’s ; and, as you put tin matter \ cry urgen ly, wo agree to offer, say eighty acres of the land, for odlV., and to rehain the buildings and other improvements, with the ten or twelve acres upon which they are scattered. Trusting this offer may meet your views, Wo are, &c., CAMPBELL & LOW. Land and Works Office, Dunedin, Jan. G, 1372. T. L. Shepherd, Esq., M.H.R. Sir, — I have been dircPel to ac'.nowle Ig.i the receipt of your letter of the 21st of De 'ember last, e 'closing copy of corr spondence between 1 'am >be!l anl Low anl yourself, relative to tbeir lan 1 at Black’s, and to acquaint you tha 1 the Government me it declines'to accept the off -r of those gentlemen, ore'’erring to adhere ‘o the decision at which it arrived in April last, when amcraprid on the subject f 'hi Fin di ng Channel was reels d, to t 1 o effect tint | “The nmnorialUts sh ml 1 take su'-h s’eps as might, bv necessary to carry the rare through the fr ehnM, under the Goldfields Act.” I am, \c., ALEX, WTi.T,IS, | Under Secretary,.