EQUIPMENT OF PROSPECTING PARTIES.

West Coast Times, Issue 114, 29 January 1866, Page 3

EQUIPMENT OF PROSPECTIN G PARTIES.

'10 TUB llDlTOlt OV Til 15 WKST COAST TIMISS.

Si if, — Looking at the present state of r.ffairs in Ilokitika, I would suggest the advisability of at once starting subscriptions for opening tho country by means of tracks to enable the diggers to prospect for themselves. It is folly to wait for tho Govornment to do it. Tho diggers cannot 'do more than prospecting, and it is their interest to remove tho obstacles which prevent tho opening of now fields, and paralyze business of all kinds. •Should you b.> kind enough to take tho matter into consideration, the public, sir, will soon understand that instead (f those- (lull times which'; cause \\)\\\ to

no many ; prosjicrily v/iH again tfhenv itself nt t'VOi'y don 1 . A])olo»isin < fo • tivspasf-i i;>' vj/'>n your valuable ipaoe. I subs-cribi? myself, Yours truly, J. B. to Tin: i:ditoh or the "west coast timi*." Sir, — Hoping to find room in your columns for a 'ow words on n subject of vital importnnc to this commvnity "-prospecting; I will express Komc of my thoughts upon it. One of thorn is, that our legislators of Easllaud do not, or will not, understand tho wants of tho people of Westland : nllhon»;h I believe that our members do not foi get to tell them of them. As a practical digger, I wns perfectly astonished to find that the principle of giving rewards for tbo discovery of fresh gold -fields should be ignored in the manner thnt it was by the Provincial Council of Canterbury when Mr Bnrff's motion, that a sum should be placed on the estimates for that purpose, was under c msidoration. Methinks we might just us well sec about legislating for oni solves, first as last, if wo wish to see the West Coast properly ] rospe-tod in our goncrat'on. I i.m, yours respei tf ally, Ticom;» Walsh. Wuimon, Jnn. 1, 18(HJ.