ARROWTOWN.

Evening Star, Issue 3046, 22 November 1872, Page 4

ARROWTOWN.

(from our own correspondent.)

November 18. A public meeting was held here on the 16th inst., for the purpose of electing a delegate to represent the district at the Conference at luapeka; and Mr John A. Miller, the founder of the Arrow Miners’ Association, was unanimously elected. He will be elected by one or two other members of the committee of the Association, if they can arrange to do so. Mr Miller stated that he was in favor of courts of arbitration, local legislation, and making every miner a judge in purely mining matters. In regard to the right of the public to demand that two sluicc-heads of w T atcr should flow down its natural channel when required, ho said that the question bad been decided at Home in water-power cases, and it was proved that no <Government has power to authorise the diversion of all the water out of a creek. He would advocate that the power of cancelling gold-mining leases for breaches of cov nauts should bo vested in the Wardens, and that the public should have greater facilities and less expense than at present in prosecuting objections tc leases. That large areas of ground should be granted for gold mining pm poses in strict proportion to the outlay or labor required to develop the ground. That a miners’ asylum should be founded to ensure them in their old age from want and misery—something on the same principle as the Cddfellows’ Society. That at present miners were not receiving the full price for their gold by nearly 4s per ounce. The new National Bank would, he hoped, break up the present monopoly, Mr Walker referred to the difficulties which stood in the way of mining on agricultural leases. Mr Miller said that he would allow any prospector to enter on such lands by paying compensation for actual damage, but after payable gold was found, the land should be thrown open to the miners. The question of a scheme of water supply for the Arrow district was discussed, and it was decided to take steps to ascertain the practicability of bringing in a large supply from the head of the Shotover and Arrow to the auriferous terraces of the Twelve mile and Upper Arrow. Mr H, S. Fish, jam, passed through the Arrow to-day, on his way to Dunedin. An accident occurred yesterday to a miner named Lindsay, at the Cardrona Creek. He was riding up the creek, which is very rugged, when his saddle girths slipped, and he fell heavily among some rocks, fracturing his collar bone. He has been removed to the Hospital.