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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 57, 12 August 1890, Page 2

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Mahakipawa Prospector’s Reward. Affairs in the Housg. 4 somewhat mixed. The Whitcombe and Tombs Trouble. Carpenters Called Out. Prayers Offered for a Peaceful Settlement. The Timaru Seat. Valuable Mineral Discovery. [By Telegraph,] (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON. , - August 11. 'Mr Richard Reeves, member for Inangahua, has a question on the Order Paper of the House of interest to,your district, he wants to know from the Minister of Mines if he intends to take any steps to compel the Peiorus Road Board to contribute their half of the reward due to the prospectors of the Mahakipawa Goldfields, and if the Government under any circumstances will keep faith with the mining community by paying at all events their half of the rewards. Affairs in, the House are somewhat mixed at present, and-it is hard to say when an attempt will be made to answer the large number- of questions which are how on the Order Paper. Sir G. Grey addressed a public meeting at the Lower Ilutt on Saturday night, and was accorded a most enthusiastic reception.

The Whitcombe and Tombs trouble is still the all-absorbing topic of conversation. The Railway Commissioners replied to-day to the Maritime Council, stating that however much they deplored a general strike, they could not seek to avert it by violation of the law ■ of the land in refusing to carry the boycott firm’s goods. The Carpenters’ Union have called out the men employed in fitting up a shop for Whitcombe and Tombs in Dunedin. At Christchurch yesterday sermons on the labour dispute were preached in several churches, and prayers were offered for a peaceful settlement of the difficulty. At the nomination to-day for the Timaru seat only three candidates were proposed—namely, Messrs Kerr, HallJones, and Aplih, Mr Toomey having retired. The show-of hands was in favour of Mr Hall Jones. The poll takes place next Monday. It is stated that'the unionists will give a block vote.

Mr Charles Gould who had just taken possession of Dr Campbell’s estate at Whakatane, near Auckland, which he had purchased for £50,000, was found this morning at Whakatane. He had been shot, it is supposed, accidentally. A valuable mineral discovery is reported in the vicinity of Palmerston North, where prospecting has revealed the existence of a reef of copper ore 85 feet wide, with backs of 500 feet. The reef is mainly composed, of ore containing rich copper sulphide.

It is expected that another lively debate will take place in the House to-mor-row on the Hutchisoa-Bank of New Zealand question.