TAIL-WATER GRIEVANCES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 88, 21 October 1870, Page 3

TAIL-WATER GRIEVANCES.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chboj?ici:k.>

Sir, —Your journal being the only source through which the public can divulge their sentiments, I would like to express my views on the fore&bimr subject. It appears that if the miners sent running tailings into Roach's G-ully do not build an embankment to prevent an inundation of Naseby, and please the folks therein, the Law, m all its majestic force, will ho brought to bear upon them. Now, sir, the miners on a former occasion, as you are aware X presume, petitioned the Executive, and sent a deputy to Dunedin with that petition. And what was the result? Well, Mr. Pyke was sent to look at the affair, and I suppose it is now a matter of oblivion. All the Government improvements are like " Royal Charlie," long a-coming. Now, it seems rather absurd to issue a miner's right to a man, and give him a registration for his tail-race and then in a few days turn round and punish him. If it is law, it is not justice. However, since such is the fact, if there is any improvement to be made, 1 consider it is expedient that the business people should succour the miners in doing so. If the business people have purchased property the miner possesses his claim constitutionally through his right, and I don't see why the owners of property should not assist in saving it. It a man's house was on fire the owner would try to extinguish it, and why not protect it from a deluge. It is the interest of the mercantile class to keep the miners here ; and, indeed, a man would be a fool to work the inferior ground here, where he must go and build embankments or be fined when the people like to call upon him. There is another matter that requires mature consideration, viz.: In case the miners should take, any steps to regulate the affair, would carts and drays be allowed to pull it down, and then the miners be told to readjust it. Hoping you will insert the above remarks in your next issue, and excuse me for trespassing so much on your space, I am, &c., Equity jSTaseby, Oct. 13, 1870.