Tuesday, November 2.

Evening Star, Issue 3959, 2 November 1875, Page 2

Tuesday, November 2.

David Lees Simpson, engineer to the Otaeo Harbor Board, said he I,new the plaintiff’s quarry and the quality of th > stone produced from it. It was a very useful ami good stone and such as there would he a .demand for. i Cro-s examined : He (bought the stone would ; be in d. mold for huildi. gs at 1 m t Oh dm • < Tiie Harbor Board divl intend bnikii, g ■ wharves and quays at Dunedin, and deep,mum • the channel in (lie bay so as to allow all tin ; shipping (o conn 1 up to town, bur he sii‘l thought that buildings would be erected nt Port _ halmers. He cx peeled all the ship ing would be eb'o to come up to the proj =cted Dunedin wharves and quays iu ten years’ time; possibly some might ; come up in throe years, but ho could not 1 confidently express that opinion. He did not think the gradual withdrawal of the shipping , from the Port to Dunedin would materially ■ diminish the importance of 1 ort Chalmers o disincline capitalists to invest money there. ' His opinion was that in the coins (Hof time Dunedin and .» or ' Palmers won d bo joined to 'ether by houses, and probably lar/e ware- : houses mi-ht he built atthe Port, so that tbeie would be a demand for this stone. Be examined : This stone could he used for harbor work-*, such as are to be carried out, and there is no other stone nearer or more accessible than i this. John Barnes said he knew the quarry well, and the quality of the stone in it. Some of it had been used for flagging by the Corporation of Dunedin, and proved, if ant timer, better than the other stone used by that body. He j considered the quarry was rendered altogether ! useless by the line passing ever it —Cross ! examined : The stum- had improved in quality j since he first saw it, that is to s.ty the deeper it was worked the bigger blocks it was found . in. The stone was not changing in color. If . Mr Wales originally sold the quarry to plain- : tiff for Ll5O that would be notliing to go upon ! to find out its present value. The rise in the j price of property generally, the im Drove I ment of Dunedin and the neighborhood, ! the number of new buildings going up j and the probable demand for stone would all have to be taken into consideration. Me thought there would be a great demand for this particular stone, as there was no quarry near the Port that could be so easily worked, hut it would be ruined if the line went through it. Wi liam Mason, architect, said he consideren the quarry a valuable property. He knew of no quarry nearer Dunedin and bo easy of access, but could not stale its value as In.' bad no idea of the quantity of stone iu it. Supposing that there was 5,000,000 cubic feet, and there was a demand for the stone, the quarry would be very valuable. However, there was no doubt it was a very valuable property. Cross-examined : The stone could be used for rubble work, kerbing, aud basements. For buildings, lie thought bricks would bo more used than atone, as biicks were now made much better than they used to be He knew nothing about valuing a quarry, and could not possibly state what this one was worth unless he was furnished with particulars of the quantity of stone taken out yearly. When Mr Wales sold it for Ll5O he thought it was a very foolish sale, and that he did not get anything like its va ue. If he himself wished to purchase it now he would give LI,OOO fo it, at the outside, but his opinion was worth nothing, as bo had no data for calculation. James Waugh, qnariyman, said that with proper appliances stone could be quarried at Od per cubic foot. This quarry was easily worked at present, but would bo rendered unworkable by the line passing through itACross examinedIt would take 1.2,000 or id> 000 ; 0 epmi up the quarry again after the line is formed. John Gillespie, qnariyman, had been working at plaintiff’s quarry, which he said was easily worked. Th-.i railway line would bii.erfi re with itgi eatly, and necessitate theoutlay of a large sum of money to again render it workable. William Elder, cb mist at IV t Chalmers said he had a good deal to do with land in the neighborhood of the port. He had sold l uul in a similar situati m to this qua iy for LSO to LIOJ per quarter-acre, and he considered th, se sections, 05 aud 00, to be quite as valuable for building on, especially as th-re wmild be no rates or taxes payable out, there. Robert Howl won, builder, mud he had m'd mine of the ’tone Iroui pin, mill".-; q i.any. ][, was now paying Is 8 i per cubic foot, for iish!ui> ot Pmt Chalmeis stone an,: Ds Od p' v p.uch f.u rubble. Cross-examined ; Ue used the ston f’om plaintiff's qiuny for C e walls of (hj, Museum now being e re od. Perhaps at a rough giuss LI,OOO worth of IVt Chalmers stone was used yearly in Dunedin ; perhaps C 3 000 w or Hi. Ashworth Crawshaw, contractor, said the .it* ~.v - i,.‘iic, ,t, us ..ny no aud vU. .-. L eu m u,c neighborhood for any purposes, Cross.-

examined : For flagging this stone was not eipial to Caithness stone. Ho had had a good leal to do with stone work himself in his contracts. and li:s masons would work it into ■corbing for Id or H per foot cheaper than they would Port Chalmers stone -it was more easily woiked by chisel. Dunedin blues tone would spald better however, John Campbell, quarry man, said the quarry was the host in New Zealand a-,d w «k easily worked —Cross-examini d : V. hen In; said the whole of Isew Zmi.and he meant the whole of the Province of 0; ago. Captains la-kean l M dr. niaste?-mariners ■e-dd the stone from plaintiff’.-' quauy »•««. very ■■ o l (or ballast and there was no mi. ply so handy. Axe. lor M’De.iili. q*uu-yin.in at plaintiff's •[“fir y, gave evidence simiLr to that of the otherqn.inymen. I teioy ‘Conniek. 1 udder, h:d received supplies of the stone from the quarry. The tii'-bic War. ehr.tye.l to hj m. dodver-d at the railway station, at 7- G ■ m 13- ,-r cubic fooi • uni iishhtr at Is 7d .er foot Tin q • lity was very good. Daniil Knife, uoneral i.. 11 way manager at Port halmers, said tin; stone was gieatly ns<"d t.-r ballast He bad newer co.- pn< d its weight i tli .he I ’on Cinrm. rs s .on ; bn,, be n,. iced tied, accord ng to die I nil-:, hj- springs of the .-oacled railway tiueks we;o about equally de-pre-sed. (ii-orge f'dryton, bull er, said plaintiff’s q iany yielded goo ! budding s one, and there v.as a good demand f-.r it. lbs supply was -topped through the railway line preventing work at the qnavr). Alex. MTvenzies said In- 1m l a quarry at the porr, but plaint IPs was much Victor situiUd, Cross-examined: < a in--a ring the two he would naturally give lus own bue-itone t‘-c pieferenoe ; bu. there was little c iffeicnco in the quality of toe two except .he color, lor ballast they w- re both equally suitable ; Ms own was not '■he heavier. lie-examined: L gan’s Point -tone was heavier than either, but was not so clean to woik. [Left- sitting.]