Correspondence

Dunstan Times, Issue 1166, 4 July 1884, Page 2

Correspondence

We do not hold ourselves responiriMefor the opinion exprojsed by our correspondents.

mining and mine managers. TO THE EDITOR, biß—ln recent issues ot the Dhnstaw Times 1 noticed you remarked on the retioence of the manager and directors of th Whites Reef Company regarding the workingof the mine,-etc., and suggesting that the directors instruct the. manager to for* ward weekly reports to the Press. The local directors are, and always have been ready and willing to give the editor of thh Dun stax Times ot his local correspondent all the mining information containfed inthj weekly reports supplied them by the Company s manager, but could not think of adding that of newspaper correspondent to his other duties. A report of White’s Reef lately appeared in the Tuapeka Timet, and was copied into the mining report of the Daily Timet, and which was not exactly a correct statement bnt was apparently written for the purpose of advertising and directing public attention to one of the leases adjoining Whites. After While’s Company was floated a number of gentlemen of a speculative then rushed to mark out and apply for leases of large areas of ground in the locality; and some of them nearly broke their necks and-killed their horses by their great haste, bnt their energy and enterprise was apparently exhausted by the time the leases were secured, and the majority are now held by gentle shepherds who have done nothing whatever towards prospecting their claims or testing the auriferous nature. of the Old Man Range and do not seem likely to until after the Waikaia push Koail ia opened, unless the recent sale of a share in one of the claims for a large amount, or the later satisfactory news of discoveries in the prospecting claims pu's new life in the other leaseholders.—l am, etc., ~ , Jas. RrvEaa, Aexandra, July 3rd, 1884. TO THE EWTOR, SIR I have heard for some time past rumors of a petition going about for signa- . tures amongst the shareholders of White’s Beef Company to ask the manager to give -more publicity of his working the said claim. How the petition is' getting on I don’t Know, but I guess the local directors, especially one of them, has many a crin in his sleeve, as he knows where the fault is. 1 guess again that if the matter was fully gone into the manager has been acting only according to orders, he being a servant of the directors. The question is asked in many quarters why do not the directors, for i the benefit of the genera? body of shareholders, and indeed all concerned in the welfare of the district, publish the weekly reports supplied by the working manager, and it ia thought that pressure should be brought to bear so as to get them to do so, or that the shareholders should take action and relieve them of their duties, and appoint others who will act equally in the interest of the shareholders as in that of their own. 1 shall wait anxionsly your next is-ne to see if you have any official 1 information of the late discovery of a solid h() dv ot ston t between 2 and 3 feet thick in i the claun. failing which, with others I shall conclude that the existing mtnagement are working more into the hands of the brokers than f,r the ben-fit of the shareholders. Hoping the above will throw i ■ some i'ghi on he subject, is the wish of a Well-wisher of the Reefs on the Old Man Range. Hermit's Cave,,.... . . Old Man Range, July 2nd, 1884. , i