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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3607, 19 July 1880, Page 2

THE MINER'S BIGHT QUESTION. (To the Editor of the Erening Stan) _ SIR,— Asa rulel abstain from making my clienU' business the .subject of controversy in the Press, bat -Mr Mcllhone does so, persistently misstate - facts that I am compelled to break the rale, and ask you to be kind enough to insert my explanations,of some of bis errwrs. That gentleman ii reported to have stated at the meeting last night ■ that tbe petition to the Nature Minister 1 charged him with " faToring his own countrymen* and members of his own religion in the taking out of Miners' Bights." This; I positively deny. If , that gentleman will refer to the copy petition forwarded, to him, he will find the following:—" That he does not sufficiently study the interests o(, the native owners ' in neglecting to caus,e those miners (who are working) to properly qualify 'themselves with rights;" further, " that the said Mcllhone is known to be aecastomed to favor his friends." The " co-re-ligionists " and V countrymen 'f are of his own invention, and the statement is wholly devoid of truth, either as being stated in the petition, referred to in the mdft remote manner at the inquiry, wat any oihet . < time. The next mis-statement is "thai he allowed several men to work without rights;" when, in fiot, he was charged with neglecting his duties in not requiring one half the miners in steady work to qualify themselves. Assuming for thewke of argument thai he had a "diseretibnary " power he seems to have exenriaed it pretty ■ cotuidtrably largely. Why did he not exercise it over the -whole field:?. ',:Wkjr should he have brought mp Balmon, th# sharebroker, for wheeling a few loadi of dirt for pleasure ? Why did he send to ' gaol a poor fellow whose family were