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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 7 April 1881, Page 2

We trust that the Borough Council will not follow up any further their action relative to the water raised from the Queen of Beauty, or take steps to put the proprietors of that mine to expense by compelling them to find other means than by the street drains to carry their water to sea. We have continually urged the Council to take steps to utilize the waste water referred to in promoting the sanitary condition of the Borough, but up to the prosent but little attention has been given to our remarks. We succeeded in getting water turned down both sides of Cochrane street, Pollen street, Kirkwood and Queen streets but it would appear as if the Council now either wanted the directors of the Queen of Beauty Company to refund the expense they have incurred, or to compel them to take the water by some other means to the sea. The Council would appear to have bad some such ideas, when they thought it desirable to obtain two legal opinions on the subject. Putting aside the advantage of having a stream of water running down the water-tables of our streets, carrying with it to the sea the impurities from private dwellings and public offices, the fact should be borne in mind that instead of obstacles being thrown in the way of miningoperations, the contrary should be the policy in a community almost wholly dependent upon the success of such mining operations. We are dependent upon the mines, and every effort should be made both by private individuals and public bodies to facilitate operations undertaken to increase the output of gold or find employment for our population. The success of pumping works at the Queen of Beauty means a great deal more to the place than some of the interfering councillors can realise—the employment of a large number of men, and probability of winning more gold than has ever been taken.from a district well known to be one of the richest in the goldfield, besides throwing open a large area of the surrounding ground for mining operations by other persons than the proprietors of the mine referred to. If more water is lifted than the water tables in Cochrane street can carry, let tables be made along Bella and Pahau streets, and the surplus water taken that way to the sea, but let the work be done from the public purse, not by'further calling upon the persevering and hard-working directors of the Queen of Beauty or other mines to contribute to what is for many reasons a public convenience. The closing up of operations at the Queen of Beauty would be a public calamity, but the closing up of the Borough Council would be by many considered a public blessing.