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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 648, 21 April 1870, Page 3

TO THE MENEHS OF THE GKKEY VALLET. GENTLEMEN,— "Wo, as delegates from the districts of Buller and Charleston, wish to address a few remarks to you regarding a Petition to His Excellency the Governor, and the formation of a standing combination in the form of a Miners' League. We should have felt happy to have had !hb advice and assistance of a delegate from your Committee, but seeing no person sent by you as such, we drew out to the best of our ability a petition to His Excellency the Governor praying for increased representation, Mining Boards, &c. And as your wants are identical with our own, your Committee could still assist in the general work of getting signatures to the petition, and on receipt of a copy of the rules and regulations of the Miners' League, could enrol members and extend it throughout the whole of that portion of the Nelson South-West Goldfields. Some time ago the Westport or Buller Committee submitted to your representative, Mr Eranklyn, their general plans, and he promised to Bupport these plans and submit them to a public meeting in your district. He may have done so, but we have failed to see any notice of such in the Press. On his arrival in Westport on Wednesday, the 20th inst., from Greymouth, we requested some information from him as to the position and proceedings of your Committee, when he informed us that you had given up all interest in the present movement. We inquired of him whether there existed a likelihood of your Committee collecting signatures to the petition, and he told us that the Superintendent would do that, meaning, we suppose, that the Superintendent would grant Mining Boards, and remove any grievances that might exist. Now does Mr Eranklyn wish to blind the mining community to the fact that he is as his lumpish harangues and inconsistent expressions of opinion— Vide, speech at a recent public meeting in Westport as compared with his latest blow-off at Napoleon Hill—declare him to be, a partizau of the Superintendent, and that he is to some extent licensed to declaim against the Government for the purpose of blindfolding those " houseless vagabonds" who populate the West Coast. A man may be fickle and inconsistent and yet be a person of stainless probity, but where a purpose exists, as in this case it does for the donning of such qualities, it would be hard to discriminate between the cause and the man. Since the Government officials have failed to make us believe that no grievances exist at all or that they exist only in the imaginations of a few discontented individuals, they are adopting another line of conduct and are conceding that there may be grounds for complaint amongst, the miners because of some defective portions of the rules and regulations of these goldfields, which it is intended our three honest, intelligent, and practical Wardens, will rectify at a meeting which they xmrpose holding in Greymouth for that purpose at an early date, but wo are of opinion that this little " kindness " comes too late. There are grievances of the most aggravating and complicated nature existing which it is impossible to expose in the limits of the goldfields Press, nor can any be exposed without entailing an exposition of all, because like a bed of drift-sand through which a shaft is sunk, if you remove the corner of a slab which might be an obstruction you are in danger of being swallowed up in the rubbish. Now is the time for the mining population of the Nelson SouthWest Goldfields to rise to a man and cast official promises to the winds, which are no less uncertain than themselves, and demand that justice from the Nelson Government which they have never yet received, and that place in the constitution of the country to which they are entitled but have never yet enjoyed. Fergus Bahkowhan". Aideit Doyle. Empire Hotel, Westport, April 20.

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