A MINING COMEDY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 156, 11 July 1911, Page 2

A MINING COMEDY.

' RIVAL PEGGERS. A SPRINT TO THE CORNERS. Bathurst, June 20. A remarkable mining comedy was related to the warden, Mr. A. B. (!. Burke, at Hill End last week. It appears that on April 28th a gold lease of 10 acres in the parish of Tambaroora, and which adjoins the line of leases recently floated into the Amalgamated Hill End Company, Ltd., was cancelled by notification in the " Government Gazette," issued that day, the cancellation to take place at 2.30 p.m. At that hour Enoch Goodwin, agent for James C. Rankin and J. Walpole, representing Harry S. Land, secretary for the Amalgamated Hill End Company, were at opposite corners of the lease, one with two watches, and the other with only one, waiting till 2.30 o'clock had arrived. When it did they both commenced to put in the " Datum " peg with all possible speed. Each was unaware of the other's presence, and there was no little surprise when both men met when running to the other corners of the lease. Mr. Rankin's representative got his application in first, whilst that of Mr. Land was lodged the following day. The Minister for Mines recently referred both these applications to Warden Burke, who decided that the applicants should ballot for the lease. Mr. Rankin's card was pulled out of the box first, and he was therefore successful in getting the lease.