MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3166, 14 April 1873, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

A«uow Mixers’ Association. The usual monthly meeting of Committee was held at Armwtown on the nth hist. Present: J. A. Miller, Dh airman ; Messrs (I over, _ M‘Whir ter, Clark, Healy, Kymonds, and Harris. The following resolutions were carried “ That this Committee is in favor of the continuance by the Provincial Government of the management of the Otago goldfields. Unit it be recommended to the General Government to allow miners’ rights, taken at any station in any Province, to be available throughout the Colony on Government lauds. That the Provincial Government be recommended to withdraw advertisement for tenders for a bridge over the Kawarau, at Frank town Falls, and to consider a proposal for a bridge at Owen’s punt as likely to bo of greater public benefit That this Committee disapproves of Mr Basting’s transactions in connection with M‘Donald’s purchase at Switzers. That a vote of thanks be passed to Mr R. Shaw, Secretary to the Miners’ Protection Committee, Switzers, for his disinterested efforts in preventing the illegal sale of fifty acres of auriferous ground at Switzers, and that a letter to that effect be forwarded. That Mr J. F. Healy represent this Committee at the Commission of Enquiry on the working of the depasturing regulations.”