GOLDFIELDS' WATER SUPPLY.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 863, 19 September 1871, Page 3

GOLDFIELDS' WATER SUPPLY.

(To the Editor of the W-estpbrt Time* ■and Charleston Argus.) Sib—Tristam Shandy's Uncle Toby, (we are told), bad a hobby horse, which, if we can believe the nephew, lie rode most unmercifully. Now, if to good a man as uncle Toby thought it proper to have a hobby horse, I do not see why a common man may not have one too, bo I have thought it proper to have one myself. If my friends knew that this letter was written by me they would say, " there he goes again on his hobby horse," now, nine is named "cheap water and plenty of it," and my reason for thus troubling jou is, that in your Thursday's issue 1 read a most elaborate Financial Statement, made by the Colonial Treasurer, on the 12th instant, in the House of Assembly: but while he fully explained the views of the Government with regard to the Immigration and Public Works Act, as far \ they related to Immigration and Mlways, yet he said not a word of my lobby horse; although, I understood, that £300,000 of the Three Million loan was to be expended on him. What is the "reason of this ? are the Goldfields necessities to be overlooked «shelved, if not, why were they not tten mentioned? I may be looking >t this matter from a hobby horse point of view, but it does appear to me looking from that point a matter that Bore deeply affects the well-being of we mining interest than any other. Perhaps you will be good enough to lighten your mining readers on this 1 to me apparently important subject. We sent a petition to the SuperintenI «ent from this neighbourhood as soon 48 the Public Works Act was passed representing oiir wants, but we have heard nothing of it since, it has not I wen been acknowledged; however, *e presume, it reached its destination. I am, yours, <Sbc, A WOULD BE MnfEß WITH Cheap Wateb. Addison's, Sept. 18,1871.