LIVINGSTONE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1039, 19 August 1879, Page 2

LIVINGSTONE.

(¥ROM A CORRESPONDENT.') I hear that notices have again been served on the miners whose claims an near Pringle's Gully, this' time from » legal firm, so, I suppose, I must conclude that they mean business, or has it aW connection with the approaching elections! It is a matter for thankfulness for th« miners so unhappily situated jjhat th; Maerewlientja Goldtielcl is so exlensivf (hat they can find room to work wlier( the debi i-s from their claims will not flo« on to private property. Indeed, nearlj all those who would at one time lwTi been affected by any legal proceeding anent the land in question have, pr" bably anticipating trouble, abandon® that part of the field and taken up claim elsewhere, so that I believe but on miner remains to contest the right of freeholder—whose land is probably full, two miles from his claim —to pr° r damage, and stop his working. I was told some months since by a perso at that time interested in the said sc< tious that they were purchased from® Pringle as a speculation, the purchasf looking for his profit chiefly to the goo thing he anticipated making by « miners whose tailings naturally over the land in their passage to )l rivor, so that if his object were extorlK lie is likply to be disappointed. It is sa here ihat attempts have been made' j the Mining Association to induce j owner to agree to exchange on cqm (erms for land adjoining (now being veyed), and which the Association led to believe they could obtain for purpose if the terms of exchange reasonable, but that the owner to enter;ain the proposition, being rently in the same boat with the of us preferring the money to that money will bring. In my opinion he will yet regret refusin.2 teriain the proposition referred to I am very pleased to observe lh a f worthy representative Mr. Shrimsk' announced his intention to seek rC " e t-ion, a consummation which every c ' e who has noted the proceedings General Assembly since the last must, if he has a spark of nestly desire. Do the electors o 'Waitaki district appreciate hones their members ? do they approve a greasivo policy / do they set any those Liberal measures which reC the rights of the working classes with the squattocracy and the classes 1 Then let them return nexji Parliament men who have

flffmsefres so thoroughly worthy of conffience. T have heard the namesof other possible candidates, but my opinion of {be Wauaki electors i» that they know too well when they served fro snpport # ny new man. Wo have our local aifltctili lea ant! troubles, some of them peculiar to the occupation of the residents, and I hear ii- mooied that advantage wilt be taken of the .approaching election to get some of them removed, if possible. _ I would suggest your publishing the divi-sion-list of the Tate no-confidence motion, 03 many of your readers will watch with considerable interest how many of the black sheep get back to the fold. At last, some of the daiitiholders have resumed sluicing operations, though several parties are still idle for want of water.