PUMPING ASSOCIATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1996, 28 May 1875, Page 2

PUMPING ASSOCIATION.

. It is to be regretted that unless arrange*. ments are satisfactorily concluded with reference to the loan of £50,000, there will be a stoppage of this important work. On Wednesday evening Mr Black received a telegram from his directors instructing him. to be in readiness to discontinue pumping by the end of the week, if. necessary. This, means, .of course,, that the pump must be stopped if the funds are not forthcoming to carry on. The consequences which would be entailed in such circumstances are too disastrous to bo contemplated without feelings of the greatest. uneasiness The effect upon mining in the immediate neighborhood of the Association's .works would be felt at once, and' would inevitably result in a cessation from mining, much of whisk is now promising to be of considerable importance. In the Albion mine, to wit, the downward course of the reefs has shown great improvement; while the Caledonian mine—though now in the possession of a few insignificant stringers yielding tolerable returns—depends solelyon what may chance at deeper levels, inasmuch as the upper sections of the mine have been worked out. The ramifications are enormous, and tlie ground has been fossicked by Captain Richards in evtry direction. - But it were useless to eriumerate the mines which would suffer by the contemplated stoppage of the pump. That the drainage is not confined to the Moanatairi and its vicinity, but extends over the field is a fact which has been ascertained by able and practical moa who have devoted their time and know*" ledge to the subject's consideration, and the result of abolishing such an extensive scheme of drainage must be felt in time by the whole field, and, in tho nature of things, by Auckland also, which obtained a new lease of life some, seven years ago by the springing into existence of this field. It'is scarcely possible that tho Council will do such an ill-advised thing as to obstruct the prosperity of thia district" by refusing tho responsibility, which merely amounts to a form. In any case, the result of such a policy is prettyobvious. [Since tho above was in type T have learned that the apprehended stoppage has been averted by a vote of tho Council.]