The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2382, 17 April 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1884.

To-morrow will be a more than usually important (lay at the Court House. Xn addition to the ordinary R.M. and Warden’s Court business there will be first of all, a sitting oi the Assessment Court for the revision of the Borough Valuation List, which is announced for 10 o’clock a.m. Daring the sitting of the Warden’s Court, it is understood that objections to the new (t Rules and Conditions for the Karaara SludgeChannel ” may be lodged. The Mines Department has a curious way of doing business. On the 10th of April, we were verbally informed by a messenger from the Court House that a copy of these new Rules and Conditions was to be seen posted up at the Court House door, and that objections to them would be heard next Court day. Whether this information was imparted officially or otherwise we were not informed ; but, recognising the shortness of time and the importance of the situation we the same night applied to the Manager for a copy, and next day published these Rules and Conditions, so that miners desiring to object should not be deprived of the opportunity of doing so for want of timely uc’ioe, «* in fact any notice at all, Ixo oig’ ili canco therefore is to be attached to the fact of their appearing in newspaper print more than that all miners might be apprised by us of the opportunity that is given of objecting to these conditions, or any of them, to-morrow; and unless the Manager has been instructed to furnish each party workiug into the sludge-channel with a copy, and has done there was a possibility of those now Rules and Conditions be-

ing brought into force without opportunity being given for objecting. We also applied by telegraph to the Minister of Mines, Wellington, on the 11th inst* for authority -to publish these Buies and Conditions. After four days we received the following reply, dated Wellington, April 15 :—“ Minister for Mines away. Eules not yet approved. — H. J. IT. Elliott.” We regard it as of great importance, if miners are to have a voice at all in the conditions for regulating the use of the sludge-channel, that they should see aud peruse those conditions before their adoption as law. We know now that there will be objections, but it would have been exceedingly vexing to miners directly interested if they had had no notice given them of the opportunity to object.