WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 July 1873, Page 9

WAITAHUNA.

(From our oion Correspondent.)

Tho annual public meeting in connection with the Waitahuna Miners' Committee was held on Monday, June 23rdThe Secretary rep.d report and balance sheet. Receipts for year, Ll7 14s. 6d. ; disbursements, Ll3 Bs. 3d ; balance in hand, L 4 Gs. 3d. On the motion of Mr. Evans, the retiring Committee were reelected. On certain clauses of the new Gold Mining Act, 1573, being considered, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Clark, " That the provision of two sluice heads of water, if required, being allowed to flow in the natural course of any stream for general us'j be lv-inserted in the new Gold Mining Act, 3373." The Waitahuna District Ploughing Match Committee met on Monday, June 30th, aud arranged to hold the match on Friday, luly 18th, in a paddock beloning to Mr. Peter Cook, situate in Main Gully. For further particulars see, not small bills, but advertising columns. The quarterly meeting of the Waitahuna District School Committee was held on Friday, July 4th. Members present : Messrs. Ferris (Chairman), Bultin, Cairns, Bushe, Moggath, Phillips, and Garden (Secretary.) The Secretary reported that he had, in accordance with instructions received at last meeting, written to several persons who were in arrear with their school fees, requesting an early settlement of their accounts. Two or three had complied with the request, and had paid the whole or part of the respective amounts owed by them to the teacher and himself ; the remainder with one excepI tion, bad not even acknowledged the I receipt of his communication. Two or three of the members expressed themselves as being in favor of suing the defaulters without further notice ; but, after some discussion, it was agreed to let the matter ! stand over till the next meeting of the Committee. The Secretary read a letter from the llov, Dr. Copland on the subject of giving a lecture in aid of the school funds ; also statement supplied by teacher of fees received and amount in arrear for (lv.v ter. For the years 1872 and 1873 the arrears reach the sum of L4l 19s. lOd. The two societies he«\i, the Oddfellows and the Foresters, hava agreed to shara the expense of advertising for a duly qualified medical practitioner for the district. Together they number about SO members, and should be able to offer a stated sum sufficiently large to induce such a one to tako up his abode in our midst. A meeting of the Waitahuna Miners' Committee was held on Saturday, July sth ; Mr. Ferris in the chair. The Secretary stated that he had received 3 copies of the new Gold Mining Bill. He also read a letter he had received on the subject of the sale made by the Waste Lands Board of 11,000 acres (3,000 acres of which are auriferous) of land at Marewheima to the Hon. Hobert Campbell, in which the writer asked for an expression of opinion by the Committee. On the motion of Mr. Bulfin, tho Secretary was instructed to reply to tho eff«ct that the Committee were unanimous in their disapproval of the action of the W.iste Lands Board in the flatter. Mr. Ferris reported that he had attended the Warden's Court, Lawrence, on Wednesday, July 2nd, in. support of the objection lodged by the Committee against the application of Mr. James Thompson for section 9, block IV., Waitalinnn East, and that the Warden, after taking the evidence of witnesses, had adjourned the further hearing of the ca3o to tho 30th in3t. Mr. Biishe was appoinced to make enquiries reg inling the land applied for by Messrs. Sutherland and Bartlett in block Vf., Waitahuna Ea^t, and report to the Secretary at his earliest convenience ; Mr. Ferris to appear in support of objections should it be deemed necessary to oppc»3d the applications. There appears to be quite a mania at present for taking up land. T noticed in the last issue of tho ''Times " three applicitions for land in Tuapeka East. One, that of Mr. Hugh Clark, ia, lam told, in the neighborhood of German Gully, a gully out of which many a pound weight of gold has been takon. I would ask the Tuapeka Miners' Committee * if there is any probability of tho land applied for being auriferou3. The other two, it is said, embrace several large patches of scrub, upon which the sat tiers and miners both in the Tuapeka and Waitahuna districts depend in a groat measure for their supply of firewood. The scrub is also made me of by the farmers for stack bottoms, fencing, &c, and it is therefore considered that the applications of the Messrs. Galbraith should not be granted. Tho nattire of the objections against the application that the Warden would consider valid I don't know ; but 1 would suggest that a petition bo drawn up on the subject and forwarded to the Warden at once. At Havelock new buildings continue to snring up, the latest erections being a Forester's Hall and an addition to Mr. Oudaille's business premises. Several of the claims on Havelock Flit are paying the shareholders very fair wages. The last washing-up Cairns' party had gave L 45 a man for fourteen week's work. Bnshe's party for eleven week's work averaged about L 3 10a. per week per man — the yield from one or two other claims being equally satisfactory. [*The Tnapeka Miners' Committee is, to all intents and purposes, defunct. — Ed.