THE WAIRARAPA REEFS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 397, 24 February 1880, Page 2

THE WAIRARAPA REEFS.

To th Editor, of the Wairabapa Daily. ' Greytown, February 23. SiR,-+ln reading the leading artiole of your valuable paper of the 21st inßt, it appears that a gentleman who has been a ; manager of gold-mines in "Victoria has take." From;this . experienced miner's statement;.itisiquite • evident gold dues exist; itt payable quanti-:. ties; and fof several miles from Brandon & Co.'s cljum; This jit appears, have •• everything ready for a start except machi-. •' nery. I have always been given to undet; stand that the Government, would prospectors where they were certain, pay- ° 1 : 1 able gold existed. If so, why not start " '.jm these men—Brandon '& Co.—who really {W have been for sonie time working very ' f. hard, making roads, &c., according to the different statements we read in the.. newspapers from time to'time. They have also sent a,quantity of quartz to be tested at their own expense, and the' result has turned out most favorably.- Brandon and party have'obtained a lease of-their olaim,' and if the Government so far forgets its duty as not to assist such men, why let us hope some enterprising firm will come to the rescue, No doubt Brandon & Co. would willingly turn their deeds over to .. - any firm who would pay them good interest for the same, and in less than two . : months after the stampers start working they would be in a fair way to shew the Government they can do without their : assistance, and at the same time find work ' ■ for the unemployed, whieh will be doing more than the Government appears able to do. If it was not for such men as the prospectors, this colony .would soon be worse than the old country. I should be glad to hear, through your valuable paper/ ' ; if any aubaoriber to the same could inform me, if it is possible, to work a single stamper by horse-power, i By finding space for the above - you will confer a favor-on - > ' "'• Yours, &c., ■ ' W.J.R.