HAMILTON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 236, 12 September 1873, Page 3

HAMILTON.

(To the Editor of the Mount IbaX'heoivicle.) September Mi, 1873.' Sie, —Your new correspondent must be something of a'bush lawyer. , He states first that hatter is making £lO a week, and when brought up shifts his ground, and says if water were brought on, the claim would pay £lO a week. This I can say, I know all parties perfectly well working at the Shepherd's Hut, and have done for years past; both they and those who have lately gone there, positively say they can't make any such wages. I quite agree with " Old Identity," it is wrong to try to lead men astray. When your correspondent can show where £lO a week can be got, then, and not till - then, is he entitled to claim his supper. With reference to his other assertion, regarding my enquiry about the gentlemen 'who made the speeches, I have gone to considerable trouble, and have been unable to learn what the subjects were; but as twenty gentlemen heard them, surely we will yet learn something that was said. I believe the Puff and Dart Company have got some very good ground, and if they had plenty of water, no doubt it would give them good wages ; but their water is very slack now. I must say that the Cornish and Perseverance Companies comprise hard working and industrious men, and the aforesaid companies have got large claims pegged in at the Shepherd's Hut, and if the gold is there, they are the men that will make £lO a week—for they have got a full supply of water. There is plenty of ground at Hamilton not 'yet fairly prospected, and I have no doubt if water could be got at a reasonable price, it would pay fair wages. I know a party of men that abandoned some ground a few months ago at Coal Pit G-ullv, and since that time Mr. D. Tremewau has applied for some ground there, and has it now in good working order, and says that the prospects are payable. We all wish him every success for 3iis plucky undertaking. You no doubt will be glad to hear that a public meeting was held on Saturday night regarding the repairs to the cemetery fence, and from the warm manner in which it was taken up by those present, I have no doubt but ere long we will be able to see a substantial fence around it. A public meeting is to be held at Mrs. Barber's Union Hotel on Saturday the 20th inst; and we hope that the Sowburn men will come up and give us a hand in the time of our need, to take into consideration what kind of a fence is required.— I am, <fee.,

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