BIG PUMP AGAIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3299, 18 July 1879, Page 2

BIG PUMP AGAIN.

(To the Editor of the Erening Star.) Sib, —" Fools step in where angels fear to tread," and practical men know it ia'&tj trery old and true adage. Charles Tonge rushes into print, and offers to keep the Big Pump working from the 400-feet level for, Bay £250 per. month. Well, I have no doubt he would keep it going for two months, and then—" Schedule in__ bankruptcy re Tonge." Cause of bank* ruptcy: Tackling a thing I knew nothing;* about, but I went in on spec ; I have 'got? nothing, and my creditors must tty and ; declare a dividend out of that. I think ill '■' is presumption for anyone to offer through • the Press what they will do a job for, before they are asked. There is no diffi- f oulty in getting men to keep the Pump* going, but the rub/^.^ilft^Jlpi'tlM^ money to come from ?'" The directors 6t mines benefited" want the public of tho "' Thames to do their work and pay, for; ity j and they will manage it and reap allsthe jl benefit.- However* should Mr-0. ,tj^^ Stone, in his position of director of *b« i Bank of New Zealand, succeed in screw ing .money out of. our local Cguntnlp^to ,- keep the Pump going, I ,hop« ih*. Gcantj I Council will insist in having their iproparlc^ share in the management of their own property.—l am, &0., ■ MIKIE.