MINING HONOUR.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 352, 16 September 1868, Page 3

MINING HONOUR.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston ArgusJ S lß% —Will you allow me, through the medium of your valuable journal t > discharge what I feel to be a duty to those concerned. The facts are these. — Of course you are aware of late proceedings in the Court concerning a dispute on G-iles Terrace, Luke and party v. Perry and party ; also that during the progress of that case, the fact came out, that most of those working on the Orowaite side of the terrace were driving through their neighbour's ground. This was the case with Luke and party, their tunnel being carried through our ground, or what we consider to be our ground, being contained within our paralels. The party in -question struck gold in their tunnel more than seven weeks ago, or three weeks before Perry and party struck the gold in their tunnel, and if they deposed to take advantage of a point in law, they had every opportunity to take a very considerable piece of our ground from us. Instead of a dispute between Luke v. Perry and party, it might have been Davis and party'v. Luke ; but to their honour be it said they did not break the faith reposed in them by us, nor did they try to'take a mean advantage of our misapplication of the frontage system And when they drove beyond the gold and satisfied themselves that there was no gold beyond the lead they had discovered, they took us into the drive in question, and showed us the gold the} had so long known of, a proof thai there is still such a thing as honoui among diggers. I am Sir, A, Thomas. O'.les Terrace, September 14th, 1868.

The Biteb Bit.—ln his recentlypublished work, " The Englishman in India," Mr Charles Raikes tells the following amusing little story:— " Buxoo, an elephant dealer, arriving at Hurdwar during the great annual fair with a string of six elephants, speedily sold five ; but the sixth hung on hand, being, in fact, an unsound beast made up for sale. Buxoo seeing with dismay an intelligent native examining the elephant critically, said, ' Listen, my brother, T aee you are a judge of elephants. Say nothing to damage the sale of mine, and if I get 500 rupees for it I will give you fifty.' The native willingly assented, and presently the elephant found a purchaser at the sum named, and Buxoo handed over the hush-money agreed upon to ' the judge of elephants,' saying, 'Tell me, my friend, how did you discover that my elephant was an unsound one. I thought I had concealed its weak point completely.' ' Sir,' replied ' the judge of elephants,' I did not know that your elephant was* unsound. The truth is, that I had never before beheld a beast of the kind, and when you made me the liberal offer by which I have profited, I was trying to discover which was its head and which was its tail.' "

When the Press ought to Help ihe Government. —It was a jocular saying of a Minister now -no more, when Ihe editor of a certain paper affirmed that he always supported the Government when he thought it was right, "We don't want to be supported when we are in the right; what we want is some support when we are in the wrong." How to Get Measured for Boots or Shoes. —If you want a shoe to fit you comfortably, next time you are measured for a pair, stand upon a piece of paper, and get the shoemakeJ to trace with a piece of pencil the outline of each foot—each foot, I say, because two feet are never alike in size and shape, though they belong to the same person. They are more than right and left, they are unlike. Don't suppose you can measured for a pair by the most careful measurement of one. Insist on having the outlines as well as the girth and length of each foot taken, and then, if the maker is an honest man, he will send home a pair of boots which, with their turned-in toes, will look unpromising when off, when once on, will prove not only the most becoming, but the most comfortable you ever wore.— Leisure Hour. A moustache spoon, is reported by the Charleston Mercury to be one of the latest Yankee inventions, the object being to provide a spoon by means of which soup, medicine, &c, may be carried to the mouth without liability of spilled or of soiling the moustache. The invention consists in a movable cover so combined with the bowl of the spoon that it may cover the greater portion.