THE TAILINGS GRIEVANCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 74, 8 July 1870, Page 3

THE TAILINGS GRIEVANCE.

('1 o i-c tidilor of the Mopsi; Ir. x .O-jißOiueus.)

Sit%—ln the interests of the miners oi the Hogbum, niight I ask if the < ondolence and sympathy, so often expressed l>y journalists .and storekeei >ers, for the miners.in their difficulties about the tailings grievance, is real or assumed ? lias the disappointment to their hopes of getting or o'en thousand pounds expended ou ashidrre channel quite deadened, alV'tlio.ir ,u:p\. rations, and "so " evapos-aieu a-l'i r'.eiv sympathy that ati'urd to

'trou'Ar thn-h<elv -.3 ahnut. the matter at a lf'ss fibril"e?

It l.; m>st important that a m >re Jjber-.J of the, law* should Do r.;iven• t \au that driven by Mr. Kooiuron. his law' and lo;H." .re bad. Under his control the Mojhurn 0 allies r.re fast bein.r completely closed a«:ninst t e egress ot' r.iilm-.:s. 'Vi.tnoss Koaeh'a "uliy Booth's G-ully, German 0-al!v, M we\ ■•Tiillv, Baracou*"a 'la'U-, n-rid all thspurs and. terraces --.ilouj; the w-.ole ii-i.-■->t* the Dead Lr-vel rar:e. Xow that a Commissioner will soon p-j-Hve here, a/athy and in niferen -e •ho :M yive way to intelligent mqui?h •

r,s to what is 06*t to be done. The sum aeruaily required for a channel to thTuie.ri louii not. he i>ot under the mor favorable circumstances o-'tht- Provhir. -

without a }iarl battle a-ita tr-.c Govern ment. To say the miners wore late in appealing to the Sa;?cri:it Js 3imp'y ridi.'-.ilous, as we al' know' the public mhil \vi% not (so until the aefion was taken i:"he \Vardeuhs Coart, in rons«v.qiieiv*e othe flooJin;? of the lower part of the town. Is the darkn-jsa iso thi-k t)iat no no hope, from the editorial saiie.tuin ?' h'ae members of tee lrnprpvein?nfc Committee—on-e the .'gavlin* sUr of our djsti'ny and pro-orivsa-—omit no sound to enliven t'le divurineas.'of our sinaation. If. ssir, but. h'lf the amount. n-?-oe?sary was iooiohiii in thf distaiK-'e. what a,bustle nnd stir there would be -n the to setturL'ih, even although that sutn were so insufficient as to make the wV>lq thin/ a rank duffer.—Lam, &e., Digqe.r.

CTv t'is 'S.Ator-of ihe Moiwr Ida ChbomCLl!.) ;oiii,--I; beg to chII your attention to D.u adv.-jrt",,?:..: jen" i=i v..jr ot D\e Lst instant. o:7ering land for "sale in the towns, ip of Macraes, and signed David Barron, auedoneo •. I have examined the list of licensed auctioneers, and do not find Mr. Barron's name there.—l am, <&c,