ADDISON'S FLAT AND SHAMROCK LEAD.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 588, 2 December 1869, Page 2

ADDISON'S FLAT AND SHAMROCK LEAD.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sib, —In a letter from " Our own correspondent" of this date the writer thought proper to mention my name in his mining report, and in so doing may mislead your readers. I should suggest to him the propriety, when again giving names, to he better informed as to amounts. It is true that, after a long spell of difficult driving, we have got up to our " faces," and ©ur expectations as to results are not disappointed, yet we cannot say what it is likely to pay, as we have not had a week's work yet. True, we got a few blocks taken out which, if in solid ground, would far exceed his supposed or hoped amount, but even these cost too much to pay, as any party having experience in old worked ground can testify. Should "Our own correspondent" again come before the public and give names he would do well to give the name of the claim, as I am only one shareholder in the White Horse Mining Company. Apologising for thus troubling your space, 1 am, &c, J. G. Dudgeon.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times.)

Sib, —It is sorrowful to see by your Addison's Plat correspondent's report that he is suffering from a constitutional complaint, namely, a natural inclination to pervert truth. In his report of the 16th inst. from Shamrock Lead, and by the minuteness with which he entered into every detail concerning the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, he can be no other than a resident of the district, and consequently acquainted with the most of the inhabitants, especially those whom he has favored by mentioning in his brilliant report. Being amongst the earliest promoters, if not the originator of the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, I am in a position to state that any person of the name of King is no shareholder in the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, nor ever was. Tour correspondent is very pointed in his remarks concerning the leases in general. For bis information let me add that the generality of miners on this part of the Coast have not such implicit confidence in the issue of a mining dispensary in the Westport Warden's Court, subject to the process of barristeroratory, as to find themselves justified in expending, perhaps, thousands of pounds in cash and labor combined till they get the substantial guarantee for which they paid their money, namely, their leases, in the issuing of which the Government are true to caution, and take plenty of time to consider. Fully expecting my own share of insult from your correspondent, such as he kindly bestowed on one of our community lately, for having the audacity to clear himself from having anything to do with the said report, I bes: to inform your correspondent that, as hard words break no bones, I can bear it all, for, like his reports, nobody will believe them. Hoping you will excuse this intrusion, I remain yours, &c, WILT,IAM KeENAIT. Shamrock Lead. * (To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Str, —Through your courtesy in publishing my letter of the 20th inst., which successfully clears me from the suspicion of being the author of a report on the Shamrock Lead, I have thereby unwittingly given great umbrage to that mighty personage "Your Own • Correspondent," who, in order to make me repent my indiscretion, concludes his report of the 15th by mentioning my name coupled with one of those contemptible insults which never fail to point out the high moral training he must have undergone aiid profited by so largely. It appears to me your correspondent studied and took his degrees in the school for scandal, to which he appears better adapted than being a truthful writer to a liberal and impartial newspaper concerning public affairs. I have cause to believe that it takes the combined talents of two to produce those luminous articles to which a happy thought mingled with conceit suggested the name report ; possessing a most sacred regard for truth —for it seldom meddles with it. With this I shall cease my correspondence on the subject, which I sought not to commence, much less to continue, except strictly in self-defence. I shall, therefore, willingly afford your correspondent the opportunity of exercising the time-honored privilege which gallantry allows the gentle sex, namely, having the last say in the matter. I certainly expect he will not lose the opportunity thus offered of venting his malicious spleen under the guarantee herein afforded, of receiving in answer to the same that which an insult so justly merits, namely, silent contempt. While thanking you for past favors I trust you will find room for this in your valuable columns.—l beg to remain, yours respectfully, G. Boss. Shamrock Lead. * ■. (To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sib, —One of your numerous correspondents from Addison's gives, in your Saturday's issue, a graphic account of a whirlwind that crossed the upper part of the lead last week, and in anxious for information as to the cause and nature of such a phenomenon.

After knocking off work on Saturday, we were talking over the circumstance in our hut, when our daft mate remarked " a whirlwind is a flying jackass." Of course we all laughed and looked upon our poor mate as a little more daft than usual. But, continued he, " all men of science agree that it is aneddy in the air." The same daft man, after returning from selling the amalgam last week, said " all* the "Westport people were going wrong in the head," or, as he put it, " their roofing is getting out of order," and, when asked the cause, said " There is no Tiler there now to keep them in order." He said he heard one learned man exclaim " Watt Tyler, Will Eufus ?" —Your obedient servant, The Daft Man's Mate. Shamrock Lead.