OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 97, 23 December 1870, Page 3

OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.) Sir, —There is something really refreshing to our quiet hum-drum everyday tastes m . such an article as appeared in your last issue. The display of cool " front" and assurance cannot easily be surpassed, especially when we bear in mind that the writer is identical with a certain mining agent mentioned therein as "the man;" but when the nice little note from Hyde is compared with the mining agent's usual style of writing—the elegantly rounded sentences, good judges of that sort of thing tell me both were written by the same pen. (Perhaps the correspondent from Hyde visited Naseby last week, and if so what more natural than that he should be met by our friend, drop into his office for a little, t"iat he asked for a local, and, in writing it, unintentionally use the same pen). I would not, Sir, for a moment admit the possibility of his (the mining agent's) so the dignity and honor of position to besmear it by such a transparent electioneering ruse as that of writing both himself. The article- contains enough of the practised place hunter; but if the same hand wrote also the-letter referred to, -after such am abuse of his position, he should be compelled in future to confine his effusions to.local improvements, compliments to the water company, weather locals, and growlings at the oveimiment v rat'ier than aJmss to sufh an extent t.;e- position he- tills by j using if as an advertising medium to Kringhimself under: the notico of tlie j

public., _ It remnds one iYuvihiy ot t 3chemeadoptedi3y Bob Sxvrf&t-"Wd' partner m Pickwick.—-i. am* &e , Asn DaDatß. Naseby, Djivlo, 187 ; ). THE TAlLltfbb (irtIiSVANOiS (To the Editor of the Mount Ida C<*wslefc Sin,-—A. letter appeared in last weel ' Chronicle/ signed '* Observer, " which the writer takes t;ie Mine Committee to account for not rushi: at o&ce into print on the appearance Mr. Fyke's report touching the talin grievauee. 4> Observer " no doubt aware taafc tlie report is an answer the question, addressed to him (IV Pyke)—" jJoes grievances exist on t Hogburn as represented to the (3 vernment ?" Tde answer to that qut tion, Mr. -Editor, is most unmistakcab given in the affirmative. " Observe! seeias to have lost patience wifcuMr'Pv in* the alternative he proposes of pi chasing the lower part of the Extend Company's race for £SOO. That Lao thought did not originate with i Pyke. The same offer w.w seriou: entertained by our business people, w had ample opportunity for knowi better. The lolly of accepting it as panacea then (two years ago) was p vented by the determined opposition the miners. The same opposition v» again be given when the proper u; arrives.

In all diseases where cures are t fecteda thorough knowledge of t disease is fir3t obtained. .Now, Sir, t seat of the mischief of which we coj plain lies in the deprivation of th "scouring power" so essential to t proper discharge of the tailings fro the gullies. Mr. Pyke should have co fined his suggestions to the purchasii oi that right from the present holder leaving their race for other purchase? who could use it advantageously. F< public purposes it would be quite in dequatj, inasmuch as from its want fall and shortness of delivery it cou only carry water of a very thin consi tency. If, Sir, funds were likely 1 be forthcoming from Government 1 the tune of from £BOOO to £IO,OC then we might hope to see a stor: channel brought from the Taiori whic would meet, all the requirements of tl iiogburn. Until then we must be coi tent if the " scouring power " is mac available for public use at the termini tion of the races from the liill worl ings. If the great body of water wi once freed from -those impounders < public property, and the accumulate waters flowing alone for the benefit < those who pay for its guardianship an custody, there would be an inviting o port-unity offered.to private enterpri; to prospect the main gully south, ai the numerous good-looking spurs ai terraces, along, its entire length. J£u the* inducements- would be offorwlf bringing in an additional supply„ water from the Manuberi&ia. Houi and well arranged gardens would en ven the now dismal.landscape, and t motto- — " Advance Hogburn," wou resound, from Hogburn south to t head waters of Hogburn - north; the quartz-reefs, in continuation of tho found at Cromwell, are likely yet flourish Hogbuin proper becorni] the great commercial, cent re of a t-hri ing population.—l am, &i\, Late M;cketaet Mktees' CoMMITTEK.