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INDIGNATION MEETING AT REEFTON. [NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Reefton, Aug. 26. The largest meeting of miners ever held here took place on Saturday. A resolutibn was carried unanimously," with prolonged cheers, denying that Mr Curtis possessed the confidence of the miners, and a resolution also condemning the .Government employing paid persons canvass for signatures to stifle public opinion in this district. Messrs FranKyn and Courtney spoke against the resolution. Franklj .1 admitted being paid by some one. The motion was carried with two dissentients.
A vote of thanks was passed to the Ministry for the ; r promised B'l for Separation. ;
Splendid stone was struck in the Energetic Company on Saturday. inspector Shallcrass is in Reefton. ; Lyttelton, Aug. 261 Anthony Trollope and wife are passengers by the Alhambra with the outward mail. - > -. ':
Chrijtchurch, Aug. 26.
Seven men who have been prospecting the Mackenzie counti/, made L 3 a week each. They have been to town for the means for further reses rches. Wellington, Aug. 20.
The Independent to-day has a strong article urging the West Coast members to support the Government. It says the fact that Mr Curtis, the Superintendent of Nelson, is to t>3 a member of the new Cabinet, should be sufficient to combine the whole of the West Coast members in an effoifc to .retain the existing Government in office. Even if Mr Curtis should not take a seat in the new Ministry, it is certain that he is far too prominent a supporter of Mr Stafford, and will possess altogether too much influence with him to allow of any hope that the unification of the West Coast Gold Fields will be carried out by Mr Stafford's Ministry. We know that the sympathies of the whole of the West Coast constituencies are with the present Ministry, and that any West Coast member voting against it will be voting against the best interests of those he has been sent to represtnt. Mr White has openly declared himself for Opposition, and Mr O'Conor is doubtful. Signalled — The Electra, from London, with 1 50 passengers. Napier, Aug. 26. The Times complains of one-sided telegrams from Greville, especially omitting Gisborne's speech altogether. Dunedin, Aug. 26. A party, taking a pinnace, will leave here next San Francisco mail to settle at Pango Pangq.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1272, 27 August 1872, Page 2
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