CORRESPONDENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 926, 13 February 1872, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

I While desirmusto.gh'ii publicity to the disettssion of matters of public interest, we are not necessarily 'to be identified with the opinions of our correspondents. [To the Editor oj the Westport Times and Cltarleston Argtts.) | Sir, —Allow me through your paper to thank " Honesty" for his consideration in sending back part of the pioney which I lost on theßuller road. I would feel still more obliged "if he Lould send back the parcel of gold fcrhich was With the money, as it was the property of other people, which I have to repay. He will then deserve: thetitkrof "Honesty," which he has Abused by kecking the parcel of gold tad. part of the money. If it is not lis intention to claim the reward of it/20, or to deserve the name of being jvhollyau" Honest" man, he will con-ler-a great favour by sending through the post'the number of ounces of gold which tire bag'contained, as there is a bkpute 'about its •weight. By comjitymg'he will greatly oblige. Tours, &c., Fran's: Courtney. [ Wesitport, Eeb. 8. . i 'To the ftditor-qf the We.slpwt Times and Charleston Argus). Sir, —Do you think Dr Hector could ie induced 'before 'finally leaving the istrict to pay a visit to the terraces Irirting the Pioneer Range lying beween this terrace and the Buller ■iver. These 'terraces, to the nonicientific eye, have every appearance if being auriferous, yet the one next he "Caledonian in the direction menioned has been repeatedly prospected it great labor and expense without anything payable being found. As Dr Hector may not visit us again for i leng time, he would confer an incalculable boon on the community by \ "visiting these terraces and giving his ; as to how the deposit has been broken, and in what direction it may probably have been diverted. Miners, as a rule, are well aware .- that it is impossible for scientific men t'-jjto point out the exact spot where 'jewellers'shops" are to be found; ret that a thorough knowledge of jeology, as possessed by Dr Hector, is i great assistance determining what :auses- may have operated to baffle the insiientific. The road to the Caledonia Terrace sat present impassable; so much so hat horses' loads have to be taken off i-and carried by their masters long disf. Tances, to enable them to set goods up ?;to the diggings. The worst place is in ||the creek, whose bed forms the track. fcfln some places it is cut down so narrow by the recent floods that a horse, i "without his load, has enough, to do to iget through, scraping against each side ? "with his saddle. In other parts large ? ioles are washed in the gravel beds, Snaking the track impassable for horses. s The attention of the engineer is therefore solicited to put on a man to make j?*he track passable, which is estimated to cost four or five pounds. It is the impression of " the contention" that some assistance of this *ort ought to be systematically afforded miners.; that thev should not he eutirely Mt to burrow in the "bowelsof the earth without guidance, fcdvice, or knowledge other than what they may have collected in their own .trifling experience—trifling in comparison with the collected knowledge r-of science; that the money which is giow paid to Superintendent, Execu||pive, and other nonentities might, with : -some show of reason, be spent in providing a geologist commissioner, and gardens enough to settle disputes on B" the ground," so that the taxes exjpoited from the uncared for, misgoverned miner would be retained in a ! g! beneficial shape, and the provincial inScubualeftto misgovern only what they gpnderstand, *'.«., Old Identities, I am, Ac 0 Caledonia Terrace, Eeb. 9.