The Kumara Times Published Every, Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3042, 3 August 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every, Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1886.

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iii serious the Gold Duty AMition Bill after it had successfully passed the Lower House by an ever increasing majority. Our own member and the member for Hbkitika fought the battle well in the House. To-day we reprint from, Hansard some interesting, weighty, and logical reasonings and deductions in support of the Bill made by the Hon. J. A. Bonar 'in tlie Legislative Council on the 6th ultimo, contrasting, in particular, the amount expended upon railways in the colony as compared with the sum expended upon water-supply to goldfietds. So far as this goldfield is concerned, the Waimea-Knmara water-race and Kumara sludge-channel are probably, together, the best paying' works in the colony. Mr H. A. Gordon, in his last annual Report of the Goldfields and Water-races of the colony, gives the total cost of construction of these wbrks at £173,176 10s 7d, and the profits oh the working of the race", which is by far the largest work of the kind in the colony, about 4£.per cent, on the capital invested. Of course this is principally due to its extension to the Kumara goldfield. The results of the working of this portion of the Waimca-Kumara water-supply show the total cost of construction to have been £37,400 2s lid, and the profits derived from the working of the race £8926 lis Bd, which gives interest at the rate of about 23| per cent, on the cost of construction. These are Mr Gordon's, the Inspecting Engineer's, own figures, and were published in a more extended form in the Kumara Times of the 23rd ult. Mr Seddon, no doubt with the intention of bringing this fact more forcibly before the notice of Legislative Councillors and members opposed to the reduction of the gold duty because so much money was spent on watersupply to the goldfields, asked for a return showing the cost and revenue of the Kumara water-race ; with the result that the return asked for was pre. sented to the House by the Minister of Mines last Thuisday night, the day before the Gold Duty Reduction Bill came before the Legislative Council. We have little doubt, therefore, if the Speaker had not overruled the admissibility of the Bill, the effect of this return would have been to change the hearts of some of our "grandmothers" to the belief that the miners do, after all, pay directly and indirectly many times over their fair share of taxation, besides the extortionate charges of 2s per oz. gold duty and £1 per annum for a miner's right for one particular locality in the colony, and which has to be repaid if he removes from a borough to a county, or vise versa. "The figures," as a contemporary observes, "are very remarkable and interesting;" and, as another writer notes, "This is something like a Govemment investment; it even beats the telephones" which have paid about l}f per cent. We must apologise to our readers for devoting so largo a space to the question ; but the continuation of the infliction of this direct tax upon the mining industry of this colony has been well proved to have crippled of late years the production of gold in it, and something must he done sooner or later to impress the. fact more forcibly on the minds of our legislators. The remains of the late Michael Brosnan are to be interred to-morrow afternoon, the funeral leaving Stewart's Hotel, Main street, at two o'clock in the afternoon, proceeding to St. Patrick's Church, and from thence to the Cemetery. Mr J. S. Smith writes to the effect that the Cogill Brothers' Minstrel Troupe will open for ,i short .season at the Public Hall, Greymouth, on Saturday next. The -roupo arc drawing crowded houses uightiy in Nelson. A three hours' walking match took o'uico lately in Auckland between Morshc,.d and Gcrulm.-.u for£l?;j aside, r.LirsliOiid v,-ou by covering 18 mile;.; 18 laps. Goodman covered 18 miles 10 laps. The Dillman 'fVvn rmadrillo. ivKsenbly ■vill meet at tiie Empire Rooms to-niorrow y/ening, at eight o'clock. Sanukji. anh Soys' Ei-uAi.vrri Ex-:'::..!.-['.—Cui-o i.l Skin Di.se.v-c.s. invuv•■i. . } .-;.-d ■>[ .jit'y, iooU. i'.i>:ssro

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