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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 651, 22 March 1870, Page 2

At the risk of being considered • todious, we mention, for the benefit of oai* mining readers, that a, mooting of the proposed Mining Leayijc took place at Westport on

St. Patrick's Day, and was an immense success. It was then resolved : — "]. That a petition be presented to his Excellency the Governor, praying that a Mining Board be established on the Nelson South* West Gold FmUU 2That, in the opinion of this meeting, the inequitable representation accorded the Nelson South- West Gold Fields is inadequate fur securing their development, progress, and suitable government ; and that a petitio should be presented to hia Excellency the Governor, praying that increased representation be granted the Nelson South- West Gold Fields, both in the General Assembly and Provincial Council. 3. That, in the opinion of this meeting, the delegated powers of the Governor to tho Superintendent of Nelson over the Smith- West Gold Fields should be withdrawn and placed in the hands of a Commissioner to be responsible to the General Government. 4. That, in the opinion of this meeting, the appointment of Wardens should be made only on the knowu ability and experience of the individual proposed to the office." Now that the mining community ha 3 thoroughly entered upon the work, there is no donbt that the League will shortly be found to be a great power in the state ; and we must say that so long as their wants are as plainly expressed and legitimately advocated as they have been hitherto, no possible objection can be raised to its existence. Meantime, we learn by the local journal that it is the desire of the Westport Committee to have, from other local committees, or from the constituencies whom they represent, fresh expression of fueling as to the propositions which they contemplate inoluding in the text of the petition about to be prepared ; and, if it cannot be done by letter, or can be better done by delegates, they have ap- [ pointed Westport, and Saturday, the 16th pfoximo, as the place and time at which they shall be glad to meet representatives both from Charleston and the Grey. It may then be with propriety discussed whether any petition which may be prepared should not be presented personally by one or more representatives of the League, and whetl er, to secure cohesion and unanimity of action on the part of its members, it would not be wise that they should be identified by the enrolment of names and the payment of a merely nominal fee. . It is certainly desirable that it should acquire as muoh of a corporate character as possible, and that any of its representations should be made, not as the suddenly inspired or merely incidental expressions of :i company of " wayfarers," but as the deliberate appeal of a community whose capital and labor aae considerable in amount, and by no means slightly affected by the laws of the country and tho manner of their administration.