BLACK'S No. 1.

Dunstan Times, Issue 223, 3 August 1866, Page 3

BLACK'S No. 1.

!(from a correspcsdext.) On Thursday evening, the 19th inst., a 'deputation waited on Vincent Pyke Esq., the goldfields secretary, at Mr Calback's ■store, with a petition to his Honor the fliperiritehdent from the inhabitants of 'Black's *So: 1 and 3. German Hill, Dry Bread, Thomson's, Devonshire, and Tinker's diggings, praying His Honor to apj)oint an officer in charge, or remove the Warden of the district from his present quarters Blaekstone Hill, to Blacks >o. 1. The petition Trent on to show the great Inconvenience and hardships the petitioner's ■were labouring under, and exposed a plan whereby general -satisfaction would be given to a'l ii the district. The present "locale of the Warden, Blaekstone Hill, isat the extreme end of the district, and hes a population of about 50, they have the Warden and open Court House Ut their "" J v?ry doors, Sf-ldom put "to use. Black's No. l,"lias a of" 600, the which must increase; when the igigantic water races, in course of construction are finished, and is at the other extreme end of the di trict. This part of our population have to travel 25 miles to transact any busiuess they may have with any 'Government official, viz., to St. Bathan's. Would it not be better for the Warden to be stationed in the immediate neighbourhood of that portion of the population who •require daily his services, than to be where lie is? The court at St Bathan's Could still be held, at which the Blaekstone Hill 'miners could attend and settle their few a.-id sma 1 affairs. By the proposed change the GOO miners of Black's would be saved the expense and trouble attending the "journey of 25 miles, and the 50 Blaekstone Hill miners would be put to the trouble of only travelling only 7 miles. 1 ask again, woidd not the proposed change be more •equitable if taken in no other light ] Owing to the inclement weather of late mining matters are not so brisk as they might be, though, 1 hear, few complain. It is high time there was a change, as with an increasing population some protection to both life and property ought to be established by the powers that be.