MEMORIAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 181, 27 July 1871, Page 7

MEMORIAL.

The following memorial, which has * been 'signed by about 300 residents of

the Dunstan district, has been handed ':>tti'us for, publication :—: — . '* To^ the Honourable' the Speaker and Members of the House of Represen- "' , ', tatives in Parliament assembled. ' Gentletheri, — *' '*^^^ c undersigned memorialist's,' beg, tb bfmg'' forward .before your notice,the following resolutions' as' passed at a public meeting 1 held at! Alexandra, in the district j •"oi trh'e* Duristira,. in the province 6'f Otago, - bhthe 24th June, irist.

; 'X. meeting views with alarm ' the r4com'menclation made by the .late * jhitiing delegates in reference to doing v - ! a l way\with' I the present right of two slhice :* heads Water tii flaw dow.n the. natural frfTgeHeral^iHe; and'edrisider the ~"^ey&fflng "'&;■ the J said right would' be i"rttin'6\rsl;6'a,i "rttin'6\rsl;6'a, very large ntiraber of miners [a this and oijKer'dis'tricts who have exr'^encfetl very large Suma of money iv con- *' "ji^etiibh 'With* using the sard water. ' . -' *%. Th^'inasmiffch'ifthe recommendation oi th^.Mjmj^C^jtiuuisgion in reference tOj.jthe.t.wbjlieacrs- of "water to the crefe4a' or giiTlies J for gfeWeral use be-

come law, the whole , of the water of the country, .would eyehttially become private 7'j»ri|peityv'anli i ''woul^ be "tantamount to' " ]^iviiifj x tne t ' whole of the ahrfterinis -creeks "t" t t'o.i^ew'ini.fividnals, and 'thereby retard "' ih'e'jifngcejss of the province. '. ' '. l ; "^l'THl&'this meeting considers/that' the "' preseitfTlaw in regain foWterrights.'gives jtiatiije^o-^ll; and that the' recom-. ■ -nieiiclatio'ns 'jnade' to alter them -are' un-' ' : '^d-tol['- 1 :/'■■'' ■- ,-■ : /:';■ ', _<■ "_" By yo'iir"" Hbnoxtrable Hotise' taking this memorial Ktito^ consideration and granting* •" %h.e\ prayer* thereof; 'your 'memorialists; 'as ' '' jn ( duty bound," will ever, phiy. " ' ~- .