MR CADMAN AT MERCURY BAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1897, Page 3

MR CADMAN AT MERCURY BAY.

ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDINGLEASEHOLD LANDS.

At a social evening with the loading residents of.Mercury Bay lasb week the Hon. A. J. Cadman, Minister of Minea, said he had now groat trouble in dealing with the mining qugsstion in general, and especially with, regard to mining on the Sauri Timber Company's property, on which quostion there was evidently a great fflisunderstandiisg. The Kauri Timber Company wanted a bigger say regarding Tairua Uian the Government would allow. In the past the timber industry had boen of '« greater itnportauco in thi9 district than we mining -industry, in connection with tna formar, dams were erected and boom? constructed in t.he various creeks, and now objection was raiaed to the granting of water rights in these creeks for mining purposes, . There waß friction, assd ib was we duty of the Governmenh to see fair Pay, so that the community might reap the benefit. Quito 2,000 were dependeuC j>" tho tienber industry, which should 'c protected, but ifc seemed aa if legislation was needed to deal with the working « tho two intoroattf. The Kauri Timber wimpany had leases over uearly 100,000 *c'oa on this peninsula, and in many W863 when tho la.Bd was denuded oi timber their rights ceased. Ono of tho Moses of the trouble wai that the company jwirwl to acquire a prior right over these weeks, that i D , they aaked to be allowed to ««« out one, two, three, and four claims prior to everybody else. This had been •Wily declined, until lately the company «w o 6 e n making arrangements not) to "Woe,,, to tho applications ot certain parties ta» r! hoy asreed t0 bhe compatty's mm t J" I|Owevsr» persona refused to come to terms, then the company objected bmS? aPPH«»t«HI, so that the Warden J»W not C rahfi it. Thia virtually 4L Wp-"y tN BRme P°'«« 88 the tiutVh'w I*1 '* >had thfc»fore beon decided 2 * aidon shaU nob deal in w»y Iqwlri hfOln^ Dy'' laßda un 1638 ail bave od3' hte' WOI'W the trouble. He had "Kf« Btlll ha wna6 protacb tfa» C h J«" WPI», and was prepared to Itt«> the matter. Provision had been made iaS cT cRt tQ pay comwhich ?i w ftßy Claims on l6»d8 from TL J ; l*baj; had been worked out. '»4f o i toly aboub the resumption of from 'JT! n R Pul'P°Beß. and they hoard BublUi, ! ■ in,section o{ the press that righti £y; OlVl Hle Crown «eld the BlA and« for mininK pUr'««S aid"" V COO acrea had been 80 B^oTtna? a Hh O-yqOuld sco for thomcapital wu „ fe u ? Preaenb day foreign **?S Z beus drir n away- Pr°*imb °r KdußtSv P f ad° t0 prot6Cb the W the \v« V" Before resuming any nt6»t oV C\u V lere waß BfciU a «reab "occeaafuui vi t n hat, c? uld »» worked, and ftnU« B*«*«y ki noclaim would bo granted everything Waß properly

The company had no right to mine on these leasehold blocks any more than anyone else, unless granted permission by fche Warden, so thab this should make them anxious to settle tnatber9. If, however, the company did nob come to terms it would be necessary to introduce legislation to sebtla the matter next session.