CORRESPONDENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 248, 31 October 1872, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

BLUE SPUR LITIGATION. (To the Editor.)

Sir, — Cannot our Blue Spur miners arrive at some more satisfactory mode of settling their differences than this ruinous one of law '? Why not leave the solution of their difficulties in the hands of men. of experience formed into an arbitratian. board? .The Bine Spur is- so situated that the ciaimholders must live together ; and if they go to la^ now, they must come together afterwards. Why not come together first, and take the arguments before a competent tribunal of their own election ? Tdo not mean that tiie strongest should always have their wiy, or the weakest have theirs, For it has been said unreasonable demand have been made on one Bide and reasonable demands refned on the other. If an arbitration board were established, both sides would have to be represented, and the case fairly stated . There are as honorable men out* of a jury box as ever went into one. I would say, in the words of the infalliable book, " Seeing that we have to make the journey of life together, see that we do not fall out by the way." Mutual respect would beget mutual intercourse, and would tend to bring about better relations among the people. It only requires that they should know each other better Some of Blue .Spur litigants have read that story in "the Blue Spur library of a man who, passing over a mountain, saw through the mist what he took to be a monster, but on hearer approach found it to be his own breath. So it is with the Blue Spur mining disputes ; each parly looks like a monster to the other, but when the came nearer they look like men, and on closer approach they find they were brothers— born of the same blood, with the same feelings; the same desires, and the same interest. This litigation places them in a dangerous attitude towards each other. It is not everybody that can .bear prosperity. The,, ciaimholders of the. Bine Spur have had a prosperous time it is true ; but they must not suppose it will always last. The man who spends the fruits of his prosperity in law is no wiser than he who expends them in whiskey. We muH remember the old adge, " the. best side of a court house is the outside." — I am, voura. &c* - I

MPARTIALITY.