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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 742, 20 October 1870, Page 2

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) October 17. The miners, forty in number, who took the Scandinavian claim for the space of three months, threw their contract up a week ago. A great misunderstanding has arisen between them and the company. There is no doubt that this claim, if properly worked and managed, will give employment to a number of miners, and perhaps pay to the shareholders small dividends. On Wednesday the prop anrl main stay of Jones' Flat ceased operations. I allude to the Drainage Engine. The last stick of firewood was consumed, funds and credit were exhausted, every one seemed disgusted, and prophets proclaimed that the crisis had arrived.' However, by dint of a little perseverance, and the kindness of a couple of cooks at two well -known hotels here, a few sticks of firewood were obtained sufficient to avert for twenty hours or so the further stoppage of the machinery. At the end of this time the supply became exhausted, pumping ceased from want of power, meetings were held, delegates Bent to Bank parlors, the whole culminating in a further supply of the needful article, to the infinite satisfaction of many whose stake lies in the flat. There is a decay exhibited that requires very serious consideration on the part of those interested, arising from gross mismanage-

ment, in the affairs of nearly every com pany here, and the public seem to have but little codfidence in their success as at present carried on. I learn that proposals have been made by shareholders of some claims to apply the sponge to some matters, so far as they are individually concerned. Whether this process will be agreed to by those who have liens (if any) on plants remains to be seen. One thing, however, is certain, that before matters assume a healthy appearance an entirely new state of things must be brought about. The unnatural connection between the Drainage Board and Drainage Company will have to be severed, and one or the other have the management of affairs. At present they »eem to play at cross purposes, to their disgrace and the people's disgust.