MAEREWHENUA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 238, 26 September 1873, Page 3

MAEREWHENUA.

{To the Editor of the Mount Ida Cheonicle.) Sir, —I noticed in a late issue of your paper, a letter bearing most' prominently against, not only Maerewhenua as a Goldfield, and miners' lawful privileges on the latter place in the shape of acreage, but also against Mr. Warden Kobinson's official report on the Maerewhenua as a GoldfieVd. Now, sir, we cannot believe that the person who subscribes # himself "A Practical Miner," and who reflects upon Mr. Warden Robinson's experience, can actually be a miner in' either judgment or practice. Admitting, with him, that . theory and, practice are not the same: but. separate them, or annihilate the theory, and we also lose sight of the practice, as common , .sense must admit that theory and practice .are inseparable. Moreover, your correspondent seems to have an emphatic eyesore in the fact of waterright proprietors.having the privilege of holding the acreage they hold. Now, sir, we fail to see a more prominent want of practice than this exhibited before us, for practical men must know very well that every lawful miner, holding a lawful miners' right, has as much title by law as any water proprietor to acreage; nor is this all his exhibition, of pusilanimity. He states that he has, just arrived on the Maerewhenua, and simply, because he has not found gold in bucketsful, he. advises the public to reflect the most contemptible discredit on the report of a gentler man whose conscientiousness and experience ' jon, the Goldfields entitle him to the most implicit confidence of the community. Moreover, sir, there seems to be a want of i .cpmmon sense in your communicant's grumbling, even if his statements were correct, and ' the whole population of Maerewhenua (who , have spent thousands of pounds and several years of hard labor, not a few of them in confidence of future remuneration) were in error, why should he seem to object to acreage held lawfully, and brand it with the idea of inconsistency or monopoly, if the Maerewhenua as a Goldfield is no good. ",'"■ /Permit me, sir, before concluding, to state that not only is our Warden's report appreciated as a true and straightforward report .of this Goldfield, but also in the face of all the opposition we experience or can anticipate from men who seem never to do well because they prefer to do ill, ihe majority of the men in this place who have speculated extensively here, are satisfied the Maerewhenua will result in equality with average popular expectations, and if men complain of others because they enjoy lawful rights, surely there cannot be clearer evidence than that they themselves are standing on : unlawful grounds.—l am, etc., 13. K.