DRAIZAGE QUESTION.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1699, 13 June 1874, Page 2

DRAIZAGE QUESTION.

An. adjourned meeting was held at the Governor Boweh Hotel, last evening to consider what action should he taken by' the mine owners on the Waio-Earaka: flit relative to the suit pending between Pumping. Association and the City, of London. Mr. Stewart was voted to the Chair,... and at onco proceeded to call on the representatives present to state what they intended to do in the matter. Mr. Hicks, on behalf of the City of London Company, handed the Chairman a telegram he had received from Auckland^ which read as follows—"Attend meeting, but directors don't empower you to bind them." Mr. Beeche (Crown Prince) also handed in a telegram from the directors to the effect'that they were in doubt as to who drainei their mine, and declined taking action. Mr. Sully (Bright Smile) consented to assist in a ■defence, as also did Mr. 'Mucky -on the part of the Bird in Hand.- Mr. Whitford was depu ted on iha part of the Queen of England, to promise "the City of London assistance. The Exchange bompany for the present stood *16of, as also

did the Queen of the Thames Company. On the telegram from the directors of the City of London being read, considerable surprise was expressed, and it. was ; thought that the City of London Company had placed themselves" without -the pale of the object of the jneeting. Mr. Sully thought that;tho;actioh now taken was quife understood'::; The fact was that ihe directors of the City of' London Company were deeply interested in the Pumping Association. Mr: Kennan warned the proprietors of mines on the flat that if once the Pumping Association; obtained; a farthing they..,would increase' their hold. He would rather have a Pumping A bsociation for that hnp of: reefs oply. Mr Bleasard thought that the difficulty could be met by the claims contributing to both the Bright Smile - pumps and that of the Association. The. money to be distributed in proportion to the water raised. Several speakers agreed with Mr Bleasard. Oh the motion of Mr Whitford, „. th c following resolution was passed^l'hati.tlie com£ panics and inines -on the ' Waio-karaka flat unite in defending any action that may be brought by the Pumping Association against them, comprising—the Queen of. Beauty, Bright Smile, Queen, of the May, Bird in Hand and Queen of jEngland, arid that representatives from feacb. mine named- Torm "a""d'6tnmittee for the purpose 1 of engaging counsel and watching proceedings in the actionvbf the United Pumping Association now pending against the :City of London, and three, disinterested' parties be chosen by .the committee to apportion the amount, each company shall pay of the legal expenses incurred. After some further conversation a vote: of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. . : .