THE WANGAPEKA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 22, 26 January 1870, Page 2

THE WANGAPEKA.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — Me and my mates are diggers on the Wangapeka, we have been there now for some weeks. We don't think our claim a bad one, and we believe it to be outside the the sold land, but cannot tell, and it will waut machinery and money to work it. Now what we want is that this sold land should be surveyed, so that if our . claim is no part of it we cau go to work and get this machinery and capital. We don't see any use in proclaiming it a goldfield if it wont remove all fears of the purchasers disputing it, because so loug as it is opeii to dispute we can't get what we want to work it with. If the surveying should show us that we.are on the disputed land, well there is nothing for it but to wait, however pleasaut and profitable that may be, as we are sure it is no us asking people to help us with money to be spent on land about which there irf going to be a lawsuit. I am sure I am speaking the mind of a good many diggers when I say that ifc would be best to survey this sold land, as all out of it would then be perfectly clear, and we should know which laud was right and which was wrong; capital and diggers would then come to us at once, as all they would have to do would be to avoid this surveyed land until the dispute was beyond any, fear of a lawsuit. Hoping you wili find room for these few lines, I am, &c, „'.,,. -„ , ,- Digger.