A WAIL FROM TAIRUA.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 22 June 1875, Page 2

A WAIL FROM TAIRUA.

To the Editors of the Evening Stab; Sir,—l heard fchafc our members returned and gave an exhibition with the political gloves. Who came oil besW I have been waiting to have' a set to. What have these aspirants done ? Echo answers, nothing! What have they done on the land question for the working miner? Forgive me- using the word miner—serfs; are they living—no; have they land on the goldfield.to grow a.spud or cabbage—not" a foot, although they are entitled by their miners' rights to it. What about the booms and the crossing of the .JKauaoranga? The nog again; their property ._ The public has to suffer; public road virtually

stopped, and it appears they intend to keep it in its present state. Surely the Superintendent's- attention has been drawn to tho necessity of a foot bridge or a few planks for. the benefit of^'tho miners from Tairua. They have enough-, to contend against in wind and rain, but to have before their eyes a tombstone of their own fate within a -mile -o£ their „ destination is a glaring and gross neglect of some department or other. Yesterday, while coming do* a; \[ law a miner struggling against the heavy" current, which made my blood rise to think that lives that are so valuable to the colony should be so little cared for;-'-Later in the evening a settler rushed to the riverside to assist a struggling'horseman, whose fate against the rushing water seemed inevitable. This crossing-place has been damaged and made dangerous to horse' arid-foot" travellers. The conclusion I havo come to is that the proprietors of the mill ought at .least put a few planks on the,top of'thV booms. >i Wailaby. 21st Juno, 1875.