MINING ASSOCIATION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 252, 2 January 1874, Page 2

MINING ASSOCIATION.

The monthljr meeting of the Committee of the Miners' Association was held as usual at Mr. Busch's residence on Satur-. day evening last. In the absence of the Chairman, 'Mr. Thomas Jackson was called'to 'the Chair. Present—Messrs. Hore, Meager, Kealy, Moore, Hewjtt,. and the Secretary... ' " The.minutes of ...the last meeting were. read and confirmed. . COBRESPOSDEN.CE.tttINWARD : A circular letter, was received and read from the Secretary of: the Cromweil Miners' Association i(a copy of which we published in our issue of the 19th ultimo), bringing under notice of this Association the combination between the banks, by which means they have reduced the price of, gold to 755. and suggesting a plan to prevent the miners from being completely in the hands of the associated banks.

After some corisideraltionj the plan suggested was approved, and, on the motion of Mr. James Hore', seconded bv Mr. Moore, the following resolution was unanimously carried—" That the suggestion c ade by the Cromwell Miners' Association to break up the unfair combination by the banks to regulate the price of gold is, in the of this Committee, a good one, and that this Association pledges itself to sell all gold to one bank onlj', and beg to name for this district the Bank of New Zealand—the one bank for the whole Province to be settled by the Central Executive, and published in all the newspapers as early as possible." A letter vras also read Irom the Town Clerk, containing a copy of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Co'uncil held on the 17th December last, requesting the Miners' Association to report (to the Council whether the Crioket Ground, called the Recreation Reserve, is ,such value to mining industry, as to make it unad visable for it to be vested in the Corporation for improvements as a permanent and ornamental pleasure ground. This matter occasioned a good deal of discussion.. It was however resolved^— " That, before the-depth of the Sludge Channel is determined, it will, in the opinion of this Committee, to mining industry to vest the same in the Corporation as a permanent and ornamental pleasure ground.'*" yithe Secretary ■ was requested to report 'this opinion to the After a .xoie of thanks to Mr. Basch for the use of his roocb. the meeting broke "P- • . ; • \ ' ' A gentleman who fishes to send his family to the country for\the summer, advertises for a place " where there are no firetty girls within twenty lSiiles," on account ot : his eldest son. \ An old lady who went to\Binghampton the other day to atteni the circus, followed th waggons all about city, so as to be ' ire and not lose her 'jway to the grounds, a$ she reached thlf tents she thanked ft une she was there alk last, and did not sj< rwhy they had the cir% 3 st> off. \ " ETiPHi NIOTTS."—The new B\ sho P of Saskatchewan, which stretches aboir Beven hundred miles eastward of thejjßocky Mountains.is an Aberdeen man. \ An old Aberdeen laird's wife some of her acquaintances were enrid^ n S the tea-table conversation with descriptions of the many vices of t^ e ' r several spouses, said of her own that ,he " Was just , a - gifeed, weel-temper?d. couthy, queut, inrtocent, deedlin,' druck 311 borly-rrwi' nae ill practices &b.00.t hi*? 1 aVa " ' '