COROMANDEL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 118, 24 February 1872, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

PUIS LI C MEETIN G. February 22, 1872. A rrisr.ic meeting was held at the Albion Hotel to day, for the purpose of forming a Highway Board and other business. The Ciia Ikm an, Mr Pittar, read the letter from the Superintendent, convening the meeting and electing him as Chairman. lie then read the provisions of the Act, with reference to the formation of the Board. Mr Coi’El.ANi) thought a Highway Board was not wanted, and was rather premature. Mr N. Glover agreed with Mr Copeland’s remarks, and thought the whole thing was got up by a few interested parties who sought place or pension, and not the advantage of the district. Mr Gagman agreed with these remarks, and thought it showed great impudence, and worse on the part of those who had got up a hole in the corner proceeding without having called a public meeting. Wc were now getting into a mess, and the boundaries that were asked for were absurd in the extreme. The time bad not yet come for self-government. The gentlemen who had got up the matter had merely swallowed a bait thrown out by Mr Sheehan, Nineteen-twentieths of the population were opposed to it, and the best plan to get out of the mess was to get up a petition to abolish the proclaimed district. A Highway Board for the next twelve months can do nothing ; can't inflict fines ; and can merely help to swallow up the money granted by Government for roads, &c., in the payment of Chairman, secretary and valuator. The digging population would never agree to this matter.

Mr Woo LA ms explained as liis reasons for signing the requisition that he thought, it was approved of by Mr Cadmnii. Mr Hall in strong and forcible terms denounced Mr Cadmnn's speech as being opposed to actual facts, and that Mr Cadinan allowed the public to he deceived, well knowing at the time what he was about, and now for a hit of popularity had turned round.

Mr Lynch told the last speaker that he was himself wrong in his facts, and a warm little bit of sparring took place between them—Mr Hall said lie had signed under a misconception, and was willing to join in anyway lie could in trying to get out of the mess, hut that Mr Cadinan had told a number of falsehoods. Mr Cad.MAN forcibly contradicted Mr Hall, and the lie direct was freely handed between tli css gentlemen. Mr C'osghave in very teinporate language corroborated the statements of Mr Cadinan, and considered it was the best thing to be done to adjourn the meeting, and petition the Superintendent to annul tire Highway Board.

Mr Glover moved that Messrs Ring, Cosgrave, Lynch, Cadinan, O'Halloran, and Moses be appointed a committee for drawing up a petition to the Superintendent to abolish the Highway Board, with power to add to their number. Seconded by Mr McCall, and carried. Mr Glover then proposed that the meeting be adjourned for 14 days ; seconded by Mr McCall, and carried. A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought a very stormy meeting to a close. Mixers axd others arc enabled to economise by the cheap-selling smallprofit SYSTEM carried on at the Cash Palaces, and it is well that all should know that a genuine system of marking and SELLING ALL THE GOODS AT VERY LOW PRICES is strictly adhered to at the Cash Palaces. Men's and youths’ and boys' eh thing of every description, and men's, women’s girls’ and boys' boots in the greatest variety Believing in the broad principle of no favour in business, the proprietor of the Cash Palaces takes his stand, and only depends on the quality of the articles and the lowness of the prices being the inducement to cause miners and the public generally to find it an advantage and a bona tide saving io them when they patronise the Cash Palaces —Adtt