THE Grey River Argus. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1867.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 283, 5 November 1867, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1867.

I The local pomp.any started for working ! the coal mino on this side tho Grey River have, we understand, lately received a letter from the. Superintendent, j }n reply to telegrams, stating his regrt? ' at being unable to give, them the lease ftf the coal reserve, as he had prouisid it to a company formed, in Christchurch two years ago, and that the lease was then ii* process of execution. So it appears we were, right in the interpretation vfe placed ort th,e. telegram Mr Moorlionso formerly sent to the Grey Company, in which he stated that the lease had been granted to the Cliristchurch Company. We tqok the liberty of doubting the statement then, and it now appears that the lease had only been promised., and the documents were n,ot then signed,. Nothing really stood $n the way of the Superintendent granting the lease, to the. local Company, eveu t a,t the last m,otnen,t, for all the Chrisiich.urch Company had to depend upon snas a Government p.rpmige, and we on v this side of the Province know to our cost how much, faith, to put in them. Only one of M,v Moorhouse's promises ! surely, when the good of the district was at ?take, that last one might have, been sent to swell the long list of broken promises which have gone before. But no. ; Ule request for the granting of the. Aggtf to the local company was made Wfst inopportunely — at the> time when fi^Moorhousc \va^ smarting' utfdethjs

vevei-ses, when the richest portions of ] the fair domain over which, he ruled had been -wrenched from his grasp ; and per haps it was only human for him to re_ veuge himself upon the district by j exercising the last remnant /}f power that remained in his hand, and willing away from us the njost yalyabje portion of our .estate, and giving it to strangers. It was ■•* the last parting kick" h.e could give us, and he has giyen jt at all Inwards— even at the risk of his own veracity. But u tjbe unlnudest cut q" aK' remains behind ? for in the letter we have referred to Air MoqrliQuse informs the local company ttyafc they p?ay stiU obcain an interest in the mine byapply r ing to the secretary qf the Ghristchurch Company, Mr Ollivjjpr-r-m other $rords, they will be permitted to purcfyas/3 shares iv the company at ths prjee which, may I be placeel upon them, and supply the CUjfistchnrch Company with the means of -nrorldug the mine, which Qugbt properly to have been in the hands of i the Grgy Company. If we mistake not, YjVlr Moprhouse's conduct throughout 111 is whole affair has been of too susp\cious a nature to warrant the supposition that the people of Greymouth j will send much of their spare capital to Christchurch to invest in the shares of his pet company.