CORRESPONDENCE

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 May 1884, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE

Under no circumstances is the Editor responsible for the mutter contained in correspondence.

(to the edtior.) ■{?IR, — I read with great interest your last week's leader on the unsatisfactory condition of our goldfield. sfou ask how its '" fair fame is to be restored ?" I say work the mines for the shareholders and "not for the Batteiy Company, and let the Battery owners and their manager attend to their own business, and not under pretence of studying tho shareholders' interests, legislate entirely for the batter, 'a interest. It is true the directors of the different companies deserve great censure for the apath} 7 they have displayed in allowing Mr J. C. Firth to take, as it weie, the reins into his own hands and drive u^ he likes. To bear out this rather forcible language, I will take for instance the Colonist Goldunning Company's last week's crushing account, and compare Te A rob a charges with what the charges for the same amount of quartz would be at the Thames : —

Against these preposterous charges we have 2490z 15dwts amalgam, which I will take to be worth one-fourth, or 62 oz Bd\vt cf gold, worth say £2 16s 6d per ounce, £176 6s 6d, a balance of £56 16s 7d to pay all wages and incidental expenses. The 10 bei dans (viiich weu going only half-speed) on tailings at 6^ 8d per d<n , brings the company, on this account, £5 3s 3d on the week in debt. On the Thames 107 tons of quartz would be culled under "60 loads, thin ciush.-d <ii 8s p<_r load would cost £24. There would be no extra charge for berdans to treat the l>]<inketiu£rs. thus the cli irge at the Thames ver-us TV Aroha i'oi the gis r en amount of quartz shows thus — TeAioha Thames £G9 lOsO'l. £24 oaorl. Our tailings at the Thames would have a ready sale, whilst the tailing -plant hern brings the companies in d -bt. I will instance anothci ghuing injustice to the Khaiehoideis of onr goldmines. A buddie or sluice-box was recommended to Liie directois of the New Find as used at the ! JL'hcimes as a means of concent! ai ing the t.iilings to one-sixth of the bulk. This modus operand i in the case of 1 i«t week's tceantent of the Colonist's taiings w>n'd have reduced the charges fiom £32 to £5 6s Bd, a savings of £26 13^ 4d. To lerect an appliance of this kind would not tost £5, yet pei mission was withheld to do so, its it did not suit the Battery Company. Jf Mr J. (1. Firth has really^ as he projesses, the interest of this goidiield at Ixviit, he will at once cea^e to represent two intesests diametrically opposed to one another, and acknowledge, as well as beJieve, th;it " One man cannot serve two Masters." — I am, wir, A MINiCK.

Mr E. Y. Cox and family removed from Shaftesbury to Auckhnd this week for the winter. The sculling ulslteh between Ilanlan anVl Layoock took place on the Nepean ri\e,r, Sydney, on Thursday last. For the first quarter of a mile the boats ueie level, the conipetitois both appearing to be rowing a u I'tiiij* race. Uanan then increased liisspeed, md <it tlic half mile wa* leading by two lengths. Layt-Ock then spurted, b.it Ilanlan answdl't-dj TppaiV.ntly without exerting him -.til) aiitl kepi the lead for the remainder of the rHfe-, Hnisliingabouthalf a length aheadi Time, 22mins 45secs. There was u large attemlance of spectators. " Hi ! where did you get thorn troupers 1" osked <tii fti^iiiiiau n[a mm who h ippeui ti to be na^Hiiiir with a pmr of remarkably short trousers on. " i got them were they grew," \v;is the indignant repiy. " Then lie m < eonsci' ' c, ' a ! d I'.aiil., l( you've piuiud them .1 jear two aoun 1"

.ran i way charges on 80 trucks, 4*o(l* £18 0 0 Crushing 80 trucks, equal to 107 tons, 10s 53 10 0 i benlans charged treating blanketing, per day, 6s 8d ... 16 0 0 6 berdans on tdilinsrs, per day, 6* 8d " ... .'.. 32 0 0 total for six days ... ...£ll9 10 0