THE COMPLAINT FROM ROCHFORT TERRACE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 587, 30 November 1869, Page 3

THE COMPLAINT FROM ROCHFORT TERRACE.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sib, —In answer to the complaint from Eochfort, your correspondents make the assertion, that it contains falsehood, without making any attempt to verify their assertion, and as my name appears at the bottom of the complaint I am in some measure responsible for its truthfulness. In the first place they ask the very question that the complaint itself anticipated and answered as satisfactorily as is necessary to do now. Then they talk of an outburst of envy. The complaint mentions that we do not object to the amount of ground they hold; then where can the envy be ? Envy is one thing, and feeling dissatisfied with the administration of the rules is another. Then they talk of one of Alton's party threatening to try and break the amalgamation after it was granted—a remark that has nothing whatever to do with the disinterested individuals who signed the complaint besides them. Then they make mention of a notice in the "Warden's office as having nothing to do with amalgamation. The Warden had refused amalgamation, and the notice in the Warden's office refused the only alternative of holding the ground as they had it, viz., two parties working out of one tunnel. They remark there is no simile between their amalgamation and the Boatman's —which was applied for with Alton and party. I should think not. When Alton and the Boatman's was applied for no gold had been got on the terrace, and part of it had been virtually deserted, and what was held was more by shepherding than actual work, so that it required some encouragement to prospect the hill. And it~is rather a strange fact that they (Mees and Wilson) hold more ground on the lead, in proportion to their numbers, than Alton and the Boatmen would have done, provided they had got what they asked. When we take into consideration that Mees and Wilson, and also a claim on each side of them, had gold when the amalgamation was granted, we might as safely say there is no simile. In their own words, this may be an unhappy remark, but in saying so Ihaven't the" slightest intention of propagating their felicity. That about the base attack on the Warden sounds very well, but it would have been as well left out. I won't say the letter contains downright falsehood, but something more contemptible still, as under the garb of truth it strives to impart false impressions. With an apology for troubling you with so trifling a matter, —I remain, yours &c, Fergus Barrowmax.