THE LATE APPEALS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 513, 5 June 1869, Page 2

THE LATE APPEALS.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.)

Sir, —Mr Tyler informs me that my letter of the 2nd hist, is capable of misconstruction. He says that, in the case of Ili/des v. Sutherland, the notice was not precisely the same as in the cases alluded to. Several names were given, the remainder being summed up as persons unknown, the whole being designated as " Sutherland and party."

In all other cases instituted by Mr Tyler he has been in a position to give the names of the respondents in full, and lie has done so. In the cases I referred to I was unable to do so, and I adopted a form substantially the same as that held sufficient in Hydes v. Sutherland.

I should not have again trespassed upou your columns except at Mr Tyler's request.—Tours faithfully, "William: Pitt. Molesworth Street, June 4th, 1869.

THE MINING REGULATIONS.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.J Sir, —I think that, before long, I shall have to constitute myself the diggers' advocate, for they are constantly at me to advocate their cause. And, indeed, I begin to feel, as lots of us did the other evening in looking over our regulations, that the laws are not adapted to our requirements. Even the calculations according to the Government scale are, I find, very incorrect. Will you be kind enough, on behalf of the diggers, to publish the following scale as advertised by the Government in their regulations. You will see that the sum total of feet is not properly carried out, and this, in golden ground, might make a material difference to the digger, and at the same time opens a fine field for the "Warden's discrimination :

Government Ought Clause No. 2. calculation. to bev 3 men, 73x146 ... 10,800 ... 10,658 4 men, 85x170 ... 14,400 ... 14,450 5 men, 95x150 ... 18,000 ... 18,050 6 men, 104x280 ... 21,600 ... 21,632 7 men, 112x224 ... 25,200 ... 25,088 9 men, 127x254 ... 32,400 ... 32,258 10 men, 134x268 ... 36,000 ... 35,912 11 men, 140 x 280 ... 39,600 ... 39,200 12 men, 147 x 294 ... 43,200 ... 43,218 This is a schedule of the Government calculations in simple multiplica-

tion. I was not aware before that they could, or were instructed, to lead miners astray by these regulations. Tou may depend upon it, Sir, that before long the miners will be compelled in self-defence to vindicate their own cause, for it is impossible that they can for long maintain the great amount of litigation involved in the present loose system. All our little earnings, after paying for the " deadhorse," goes in law, through these irregularities, loose regulations, and the tendency of the Courts.—l am, yours, &c, Mailxiw.