CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 5 June 1869, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

MINING RESERVE AT THE SPUR. (To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.)

Ste, — Allow me space for a few remarks in connection with a public meeting which was held by the miners on Monday evening, 24th ult., at Mr. Grrieve's store, when about fifty miners assembled to consider Mr. Mouat's resolution relative to the miners stacking their tailings on thirty acres of ground as a reserve in Gabriel's and Munro's gullies. Mr. Nicholson, the surveyor, presided ; and after reading Mr. Mouat's motion, the chairman suggested that if the miners thought it desirable to have this thirty acres marked off, it would be advisable to elect two delegates to meet him the next day, in order to show him the proposed reserve. All voices appeared "to be paralyzed for several minutes ; at last Mr. Manuel moved that Mr. .Mouat's motion be not entertained, and Mr. Morris .seconded the resolution, which was carried without a dissenting voice. Some of the miners here are a little jealous, thinking there is a motive in Mr. Mouat's motion, It is only very recently the miners have extricated themselves out of the mud, and they are led to believe had Mr. Mouat's motion been received, it would have deliberately assisted tljem ' into the mire, I for one do not th'iuk •

Mr. Mouat would be guilty of leading; us into a trap, simply for this reason,, his connections have always been very close with us ; he has laboured with usin the- capacity of a miner; he has fed with us; he has drank with us»; ho has slept with us ; he has and is representing us- in the Council ; and Ido believe that integrity still exists aa formerly. I must say, however, the motion is an absurd "one, as some of the Blue Spur tailings are already half way to-* Lawrence, extending over eighty or ninety acres of ground. Now all litigation; has subsided, in reference to business' places and holders of miners' rights, of which, I think, Mr. Mouat is pretty well aware. The miners are' prepared to defend taemselves as they hitherto- have done. — I am, &c,

O> TET E 03? THE StTFEEHE.es,. Blue Spur, 28th May, 1869.