The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4588, 18 September 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1883.

One of tho most important and at the same time thoroughly practicable suggestions made in the instructive and interesting lecture of Mr J. A. Pond, delivered last night, was that relating to the establishment of a Mining Institute at the Thames. The value of such an association existing in our midst is incalculable, and the many advantages to be obtained from it are innumerable. At the present time there is distributed amongst us valuable information in the hands of different persons, which if brought into communion could be easily and profitably used; that which is now unavailable, owing to, perhaps, the want of one or more finishing or connecting links, could by the association of persons possessed of those links—and very likely, no other knowledge of that description—help to form a chain whic'a would be of great benefit to the chief support of our town. A Mining Institute would, as its name indicates it should, foster the industry upon which we rely to a great extent. From prospecting the ground to retorting the gold,l many various advantages would accrue to the members of such an association, not only from the communication from one member to another of tho ideas resulting from their observations and experiences, from the varied instruction to be gained by lectures, discussions, and other attendants on the existence of such institutions, and from the establishment of a library attached to the affair, and from A variety of other following causes, The

many advantages which hays arisen from the existence of similar institutions in other mining communities in the colonies, more especially that of Victoria, point out the desirableness of such an institute being formed here. The profitable following up of prospecting, the economic working of ground, such things as avoiding hard bars, and the thousand and one other advantages which have encouraged other bodies, all tend to urge the establishment of bach an association in our midst. Not only to the miner and the investor does the thing present attractions, but for the general benefit of the place, which means the business prosperity of i'y it behoves all and everyone to assist in the development .of such a society, ana once the infant comes into existence we have not the most infinitesimal doubt that its fair proportions will attract support, and its manifest advantages and general usefulness will obtain sustenance sufficient to ensure a long and healthy life for it.