THE LATE JUDGE GRAY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 324, 21 May 1875, Page 3

THE LATE JUDGE GRAY.

(To the of the Editor Mount Ida Oheoniole.) ; Sib,- -Without desiring for a moment to disparage tlie laudable effort recently introduced by the Arrow Miners' Association for the erection of a monument to perpetuate the memory ©f that good and wise man, and. just and upright judge, I cannot but think that the object proposed would be better effected should the movement nument take a somewhat different direction.

,' A monument placed over the grave of the late judge inDunedin would necessarily be seen by few by whom he was intimately known, and among whom his judicial career was especially passed. I allude, of course, to his career as first Dis'.' l trict Judge of the Otago Goldfield. What I would propose is that an effort should be made to ascertain if there be in existence any good portrait, or even a reliable photograph of the late Mr. Wilson Gray. _ ;Erom:e'ither of these it woujd;not be difficult to obtain life-sized paintings-H----one of 'which> I would suggest,. should be t placed in each of the. District Courts over which he so long and so ably presided. ■By.fthis means his memory would be more surely and agreeably handed down to posterity than it would be by the course proposed, to., be pursued. -.'•■... 11 am' aware that nothing I can say can add one feather's weight to the high reputation for; honesty, .benevolence, learning, and justice, which the late judge! so' : "well earned'„and _,so deservedly enjoyed. On this subject, therefore, I. shall be silent. If, however, the Arrow miners prefer that the memorial to the memory of the late judge "should take'thV shape they propose,-Iffor myipart,-cannot see why the two movements should not g0.,0n concurrently and harmoniously.— '•■iam,&e.) "'"'• ■ . In MisMOEilM." i Naseby, 19th May. "

(To the Editor of Hie Motot Ida Citkonicie.) ; think it our duty■;to reply', 1 through your columns, to a paragraph which appears in your paper of the 14th. May as, to a deputation haying waited upon the Warden complaining of the working'oFbur coal lease. "'"■- "'"..'■

| We beg to say that, though there niay be some ground of complaint,., we are not the parties-to be'complained-of, '-and- that the evil does not arise-from any fault of ours. No dbubC ! tKer& is'" any quantity of coal available," but the means of procuring it-are not so-rat least to the extent we ;wish ,it,not only for the publicj but for bur own sake. The real cause of the deficiency-injtbe supply is owing to bur baving.metjwith foulair at the end of a tunnel ftOQ. feet long;. and, to remedy which,-we were compelled to sink ,an airshaft, u which was done about the time; of Marshall's and'others' complaint, and Marshall knows'that he had then to leave the tunnel,; almost suffocated at the.{time. Again, Durward and party, who applied for a lease .some time ago (which has not yet been granted),, were, by the recommendation of Mr. Warden Stratford, ordered to make a road, in order to "give access., .to ..the,.back portion of our lease, which they have not done._ Had this order been complied with, we. should have been enabled to open a tunnel through bur lease, and obtained fresh air throughout the mine.

In conclusion, we have most emphatically to deny the false statement of the deputation (and ask by'whom they were deputed ?) as to only one man being at work besides Mr. M'Credie. We have besides himself three wages men at work in the mine, making five men in all.—We are, &c, . David M'Ceedie & Co.