WATER RESERVE ON BLUE SPUR.
(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.) Sir, — I observed in your issue of the 9th mat. a letter signed "Onlooker." " Onlooker " goes on to say that a memorial has gone the round of the Spur with Messrs. Hinde and M'Kinlay, soliciting signatures for the granting of the water r.eserve. "Onlooker" says it is very easy to get signatures if people will only take the trouble to solicit them. Now, sir, I think that the miners of the Spu? knew quite well what they were signing, and I would inform " Onlooker" that all •the minera who signed the memorial were lease or race holders. The object of tho memorial is to maintain a permanent v. ater course, or in other words, if parties by their workings bring down the reserve, they will be in duty bound to repair all the damage done to tho races, as no one has a better right to do it, and not as we now. have it, namely, parties disputing the right of some of us being on the ground, although we have been there many years before them. By inserting the above you will oblige, yours, &c, Zebra. Blue Spur, June 13, 1870.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 124, 23 June 1870, Page 5
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204WATER RESERVE ON BLUE SPUR. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 124, 23 June 1870, Page 5
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