THE PIONEER OF GOLD DISCOVERY IN OTAGO.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 61, 1 April 1870, Page 3

THE PIONEER OF GOLD DISCOVERY IN OTAGO.

v. ) A;few-weeks- ago 1 we r published in ourlcolumns, undej the above heading, an article from^the"' Bruce Herald)' 'to which a correspondent, writing to i the: 'Evening Star' * makes the'following re■•'■ply-: " .'• ;-- .;/;!■ ■ -'■ '". " The extract, from the ' Bruce Heraid,' which yoii" published last evening, is certainly a great curiosity. ; '"° ,v"; That in the year 1853 any man in Otago should have been so utterly ig- \ of what 'all the world besides so Cwejljknew, as to "consider the discovery j.of gold in our midst .a : dire calamity; ; that he should'be so demented as to believe he was doing; a service by keeping the.fact a profound secret, is'"certainly : nofr very creditable io our early history as;4;.Provin;ce. f But, that in the year'lß76, when the discovery of gold jbas actually changed our then insigni- [ ficance into that of comparative magni- | ficence—that now an editor of an Otago journal should gravelypropose to reward such.a_man...with-.,some tangible jy? esentation,is ; ;.a ;i grpsa; 'insult ;:to°the > community at large. „ "Truly the editor iHusVbe playing a cruel joke; upoif his protege, prat least ! doing him anu- his |ieserts ; a greater injustice. If this be-not the case I would ; propose that' a•' fall' length ■ portait of each* be taken, .which might Veil: and. appropriately "be handed down to future generations" on the walls of the Otago Museum, with the following inscriptions : ■--. ■> ■•'■'■ - 1 No. 1. —:>I am the man'who for seven ■■ ■■ t long years kept ! the Province of :'M o%gofromn^akin«a f ;t^r'star;t v ■ "■■ " in iits:career: of golden prosperity-' '^:,'\,'- : - :\ ■' .. . . No. 2.t-t c And I am the editor who, in- 1870, proposed he should be rewarded for his ' faithful adherence •'' to such an . egregious course of folly."