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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9201, 2 August 1895, Page 2

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Edward Wakbfibld once got 'up after Captain Ruaßefl in the House, and in mocking tones said the hon and gallant gentleman reminded him of a game, he once saw played. A ; i&ark was. fired at, and when the bullaeye was hit up Jumped a little red soldier. In those days the gallant oaptaln was often a most conve* nlent buffer -for the Atkinson Ministry. Hence the .point of the reference. ,The present Government have a lo.t of little red apldiers scattered about the colony. The last one that popped up is the Inangahua Herald, which the other day "rose to explain" all about 1 iihe Midland Rail* way. Evidently the buljseye had been hit, .beoauae hitherto the Herald has had very little to say on that subject either one way or the other. .On this occasion however, it pretends to poas'ess an i^iti« mate knowledge of all the .ramifications of this somewhat involved subject, and : makes,, a .number of" distinct and specific allegations. from.the souroe they do, and being formulated in so. poßi' tive a form, we are Btronglyl inclined to beli9ve that they are the result of inspiration. At any rate we avail' ourselves of the opportunity to give catsgorlcal replies to all of them. It is seldom that amongat the detractors of the unfortunaje Midland ' Railway Company that we get half bo emphatic and dlatinot to reply to. (1). The article oommenoes by admitting that 'arbifcratlba was coujpulaory, and that In default of one party appointing their man the other party's appointee could aot and award. Had Governme'pt failed to appoint an arbitrator i¥ddea not necessarily follow that they woujd not have, received consideration from the other arbitrator. The" olauae (No. 47 of. contract) is exceedingly eqaitable and comprehensive, and provides for the settlement of all possible differences, and disputes arising .between the Government and the Company.: It alto provides that "no action or legal proceedings shall be commenced or proaeoutedvby either " of the parties unless the defendant party shall have refused to refer to arbitration. It is a, question now sub judice whether the Government has or has not* acted illegally in ignoring (he stipulations of the.: contract, by seizing the railway under a clause in the Railways Construction and Land Act*, 1881, which clause is certainly at variance with the equitable provisions for arbitration provided for in the oontraot. ; (2). Clause 123 of the Railways Conatrnotion and Land Aot is moßt probably overridden by-'* the' provisions of the contract, and if so Government have not only acted arbitrarily and unjustly, but also illegally. Even If . valid, ' the power to seize given to the Governor, by thia clause can only be exerolsad in the event | of " unreasonable and inexcusable delay" by the Company. , The Company has for years complained of Government obatruotlon and' delay. It is a matter for the arbltratora/not for either of thepartieß, to say which aide is responsible for the delay. : , ; , (3). Looking further into the Act of 1881 we find that the alleged remedy for the'juinplng of the Company's property, by appeal to the "Supreme Court, 1b explained in clause 124,' which appears to .be quite inconsistent with the equity of contraot. '^It provides that the aggrieved party may apply to*ihe Supreme Court, th^at the .application shall be heard and determined by'a Judge o"f the .Supremje Court in a summary way, and that th,e quefctio.n Bhßll be limited to whether ther^e has ' been unreasonable or lnexcusabJ.e .delay, or such wilful breach of oontr.aQt as ■to'jfißfcify the extreme '• exercise^ of the Gpvernor'B pow^rii' The Judge ia'foliesjr the base aa^'ha may soe fit, and deold,e whether J ln' his opinion Ah'e..Governor's'power* has been, rightly^' exercised, an|i |his declision i " ; Bhall r .Se final and cqap elusivei 1 '" Thia is what ihe Herald cpnBiders an appeal to the Supreme Coutt in lieu of fair and oomprehehßive arbitration. r '■■■■'"' ■- ■■ '■ ' . -■■ :-M . (4). The ao-called "looking up of^ land" hai not been on the part of : th^e' Oompanyi but of th« Oolony. Ia th,»

Midland Railway contraot of 1889clauae 33 practically deals with the reservations for selection and settlement, and the paralatanb obatraction by Government to any settlement is one of the (Company's grievances. (5). The statements as to ths relative cost, expenditure, and length constructed are entirely misleading. The Company -has ...expended, fully, onerthlrd .cf ... the estimated ooßt (not btie-fif th) of both the Nelson and Chriatchurch lines, and has constructed 80 miles of the total 235 miles, being fully one-third, a substantial reßnlt which should have entitled it to fairer treatment. "(6) The usual " gag" Ib Indulged la as to alleged concassiona made to the Company, allegations without the slightest foundation. , The original nominal contract of 1885 was made between the Government and a colonial syndicate, who Induced certain financiers at Home in 1886 to take it up. Investigation had shown that certain modifications were required in the interests of both the Colony and the Company to make the contract workable. Trusting to the good faith of the colony, the Company began construction expenditure on the railway before the end of 1886 with a provisional capital of a quarter of a million, whioh.it expended. It was expected by both parties that a mutually satisfactory . revised contract would be approved by Parliament in 1887 j but party politics ran high, and the present oontraot was not agreed to untjl the end of 1888. The revlßed contract ; gave certain advantages to -both parties, but on the whole it probably gave greater advantages to the Government than to the Company. Amongst other advantages given to the Government tvas the right to reserve or j exclude from the Company's selection any ! lands required for honafide gold or silver mining, the quantity of land thus reserved being liaaited to 750,000 aqres. The land actually reserved by the arbitrary mbuse of the right is not «« admittedly the worst along the line," but is the best along every valley and road on the West Coast. The published proceedings of the Parliamentary Committee show that on some of the land selected by the Company a good margin of profit was realised ; but It mast be remembered that an anticipated enhancement of value was held out as one of the baita which lured the Company into the enterprise*^ (7) The Gbby River Akgtjs connatently, and from the firs!., advocated the Lake Brunner deviation . on purely public grounds, as it obviated an obstacle which had to ; be. surmounted onthe Government line, and which would have enhanced -the cost of running for all time. Reference to the .published - evidence given beforethe Commission of 1892 shows that thei Company had no advantage in lessened coat of construction, while they were blackmailed to the extent of L 2700, expended on a road which benefits no one. As for the placing of a ferry steamai" on" the lake, that was. contingent on Its being required, in which event it might be a source of profit rather than. of loss. ! (8) The so-called chief " oonoession," that of the .substitution of the Abt or Fail system, in lieu of a long tunnel at Otlra Gorge, was no concession, but part of the give ao'd take revision of oontrajut in 1888. -Beferenoe to the evidenca already cited will show that Mr Hay, the Government Engineer, estimated survey and cost at scarcely L 200,000, which simply brought tha" Government Engineer's estimate down from L 1,220,000 to 'Ll.dOQjOOP^ortfee "statue estimate" of one million, which was represented to the promoters of the Company as the probable cost of the work. The land grant being based on the one million estimate, wps properly left unaffected by. the Burvey. The Abt line was adopted by the Gorernment *nd the Company, because in the opinion of both h gave the t best line, and the one moat in adcordanoe with latest recent engineering practiced The cop - aenous of skilled opinion, based on wide experience, agreed that,| aa , with the East and Weat Coaat line, where a range or mountain ohain has to be ctossad it ia more expedient to carry an ordinary flat grade to the obstacle .than to make, long approaches with steeper grades of ordinary railway. That the Company has been dea layed, obstructed, and forced to seek redress, in arbitration t is not oredi table to the colony. . That 'Government .should have seized, the Company's property in defiance j of the equity of contract, and should endeavor to draw ' it into a court .restricted to the of limited issues, and'from which there is no appeal, is a mosb damaging reflection on the Go* vernment that should, thus endeavor to prevent .equitable inquiry.', . Although Mr Ziman seems to be an unusually bold mining speculator, aa he undoubtedly ia, he is not " going it blind" altogether. He baa been an operator at Johannesburg for the last eight years. He was there continuously Bince the first ground was broken until he left recently. He has seen the development of the place through all its stages until it has reached a position that makes it the mining wonder of the world. If eight years' close observation of the industry in all its phases is not calculated to give a man a 'pretty good knowledge of it nothing would. Previous to that Mr Ziman was an export merohant at Capetown. When he talkß of mining he knows what he Is talking about, and goes into it with his eyes open and a full knowledge of its vicissitudes and trials, He considers the Reefton quarig of a much higher grade than any to be found at Johannesburg ; but there' ; they con" tsrive to gat all the gold in the atone. Here we do not. There the latest chemical discoveries and appliances for the extraction of gold are In general use. Here we are only talking a^bout them. According to ■ hla deaoription "; of ; the Johannesburg formation it "ra Ua t ;be one of the moat extraordinary' in the known world, and the .mya^ification of all the geologists who have inspected it. The local name for the lode formation is "banket," which is'neitPr quaSz nor slate, but a hard conglomerate composed of rounded pebbles' of Sandstone and quartz intermixed with sand, and looks exaotly like river or oreak waaL only that ,lt ; Ib cemented- hard. mystery Ishow" such material, with fine .gold. all through it, Q^me Jo > be, deposited M the form-jof, a dyke'Yrith J aandstone formation on either Bide. The practical and ■ the .theorgtjoal geologists were all wrong in tHeir proghoßtlcations, as has been the case with other goldfielda. [They confidently asserted that the forma* rtTou" oouia 1 not~be~a~true fiasure lode»i Yet stttDgaly enough, some of thawotk« - .-i, ' ' '" i-i

Ings on the field are now down , over 1000 ft, and bores have been put down another 2000ft-r-3000ft altpgethe^and the same formation and the same prbspeots are foand that were obtained on the surface. The field therefore offers a geological puzzle that lias yet to be unravelled and explained. In the meani time the extraction of gold goes on with unabated :^riSPJ9ed:; :^jnd^UjD^eced.entedBQccjss, with 100 years' work In sight on the most modest calculation, to ' say nothing of possible discoveries In the con~tlgudn"s"co"ifnffyi The run of "country on which mining ia going on has beea proved foe 40 miles.! ,Mr Zlmaa' considers that the West Ooast r holds pat splendid Inducements to the; mining investor.i,. It only^ wants ip be Jcnown, .arßufficlenoy of capital- to be ibroNigtiT' to Mfcrnar,; and to be worked- progarta and on a large scale. Ha regards the weat Coast aad its mining resources as absolutely unknown outside of tin Colony, and not snfiioiently within It., Only by mere aooldent he visited this part of the country, and he came without any defined intention., In the ooarjse of cpnyeKatlon.with the Premie;, the latter advised him to. have.;a lpak , at the country, mjniag .being his spacbl line, rbut w.aa careful not to , ad visa , mm to invest. , ; Be told him that mining wa3 as : precarlonß therejas anywhere .ehe,. and a ,raan must rely, on hla.own j n^gment... Mr Ziman likasKthe look , of., thet coiifl.try im<» :meoaely from.a rainipg 7 pojpc of .view, ,and,Js, perfectly satisfied with his investment?. : rpQ.fftecqlAtesl.bqldly,, and deals .very ; liberally, .o.as^jthe . Re«f ton " mine q.wners r will>no do.ubbjreaiily^aver. , ■ Mr Ziman'gOes baok to ißeefton before again ; going- -south.'. rT-hev Humphrey Gdlly baßine"ss:ha'B*eached'. thai^Btaga that there is Xreallynd f a'rther.occaßion for him to visit the ground again-^at ! least at i present. r; - f ! " ■•. •■ ••.•■:'; •' f, .•■• ! .""■ : I Me "Peter !Webb-, •*■ o f tfie GeneraTalDepaffcment, of which he- ia an , ojid, and le,d c offiper, is at .(pre&aniffn Ibwn engaged on Ithe ' Department. -^k^ka'^Mv^'on^iCo^C: . ; /TiiOße^n jo w.antJ9l^:gop^pair*pf .^ankets dhring^tibe .present . cpld £geath^r -shguld .visit . .the' ( & . WBATH^.iwWe.^e^e ..fijjjg .-imoiense stock, j|f .Blankets. ( AU oolora an^ 6 .slzea and,at!i^ajqna^leTpr^e"^ :^ApyT. .■ ,^" : A- severe arheumatlc paiajju jthet 'left shoulder had troubled Mr J. Hwtoper, a well known! druggist ot I>w :M<unes, lowa, for over, six months. At times the pain was so Severe that he could not lift any.thing. iWath*a&rhelcohld.H ] o"ihe could not ,'geij 'rld\«>f (truiitjlfheVftppri^ Chamber* >Wh.jul^lw-.*4Ja $$h ™ft ree of it, Tie says, "And have ' since been free from all pain." He now ffioommentjß it .to "persons "'similarly afflictied/ li is 1 7 f6r"'sale tiy H. Wiluams, chemist, ;3reymoufch. -- -The many-f«etfds -here and in Grey fc month of Mrs J..P. Will will learn with deep regret that she died at Maryborough, Victoria yesterday. Mrs Will has been very ill for some time and the authorities of the Union Bank removed Mr Will to> Victoria in ths hope that a warmer climate might prove beneficial. Dnfor* tunately these hopes were not realised, the change praying of very little if any benefit.— W O Timds. The monthly meatlng of the Grey District Permanent Building and Investment,Society will be, held ; at . Nancarrow and Go's office this evening. '.. - Thomas 4 M'Beath. always bearing in mind the requirements of the place, have succeeded in. making a large purchase of Youths and Boys' %Wihter;Sait3;- and we assure our 'readers that for quality and value they cannot be surpasaed.TrADVT. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives the best satisfaction of any cough mediolna I handle, and as a seller leads aU- other preparations in th;lX^aWfl fc ««;:^. f :*? i 6 0 *nmend it beoauae it ia the beat medicine I ever handled for coughs, colds and ; croup. A. W. BaWridge," Millersyiile; IIU -JFur sale by H. WiLtiATMfs',^ chemist^ Greymouth. : ' '^v. ;y/ :: - ' c .i f ,y" !l . : "'" f^ r .■'"''' According to Mr Labbucb.ere, in Truth, on the first jury in ti^pscar ■Wilde case there, were ten for^y^rdict of guilty and- two for anv^cquittal.' One of the two was a gentlenfen^'who, having returned a verdict 6hf r a cdurtinartJLal.vrhioh he subsequently th_6u^ht ,wjr;ong, declared that he ; neve^yrp)ild^ incur this risk again, and.;^ie'^vas consequently impervious to all argument. A corresqondent of the Lyttelton Times asks the Editor the following question: — Do you not think that it would be well if. in addition to the collection of^annual statements called the Budget there was included a complete balance-sheet of the 1 finances of New Zealand, .certified by the Audit Department, giving the total liabilities classified, and the assets marshalled andolassed ia their order of "liquid--nmsl" ■■' ■"■ 7 . : . ' The travelling allowances and expenses of Ministers in 1893-94 were: Mr Seddon, L5lO 15s 7d; Mr Ward, L 371 12s; Mr McKenzie, L 325; Sir Patrick Buckley, Lls H9s sd; Mr Cadman, L 209 9s6d;Mr Eeeves, LI 17 7s lQd; Mr Carroll," LlB9 8s 7d, Mr Ballance, LB6 12s, Mr Montgomery, L2los. „.:, ' a , J The publication o s f the returns of the travelling expenses charged by members of Education Boards ,in former years has shown that certain Members of the House were using their free passes oh -the railways, and yet charging the Boards ita-which ( ijhey belonged railway fares. ' The exposure appear^ -to have had a good result, as according to the returns of the North Canterbury Board submitted to Houg§, jJ^r.-Mereditih, who drew LSB 10s travelling allowance by "road and rail""fin-\ 1892, OB,ly drew L 22 lQs in 1893, 'and' L2l in 1894. Mr. A. Saunders, who drew L 47 5s in 1892, drew L3Q_ss in 1893, and L3B los in 1894,, The publication of the returns, has caused a general reduction in the.' travelling 'allowance drawn by Education Board members. 5 . ; , The Labour- ! Report gives the ex- ; perience of a manufacturer with large works in England and v , a factory pi Wellington., „,s^ll pays .lds girls 10s jto IDs a week ia England and SOb to 30a

here, bat considers the colonial girl's intelligence and physique makes her work /worth alHhe difference. The Premier thinks a good deal of advertising no\r compulsory on local bodies should be made optional, though publication is a protection to thepublic, vertking of local bodies' balance^heeta be dispensed with. -- Sir —Robert... stout says the Pftiblic Accounts Committee is just as unable to get financial information as the House, and it is a farce to keep it going. : A petition has been presented in the House from 345 pereons praying that " arm to arm " vaccination be abolish? Ed, that Government keep healthy heifers from which to procure lymph, and that it be made a penal ofience t<) use any other. Michael Dayitt's reception was one of the. grandjMt: tributes ever paid to a social reformer hi any part of the world. The' New York of May prints reports from its correspondents aty nearly 300 points in the, wj^eat" belt, the exact conditionof thecrop. 'These reports to a large extent, contradict the wild despatches as to the ruin of the crop wbipb. have flooded therEastern markets arid 1 newspapers lately; and show that on the/ vast ,wheat /arms of the Northwest, in iMiimesbta and the Dakotaa, the wheat /crop isnot only uninjured but actually is:in beitejCv -than average condition. - The gigantic buUding project in years T pr6posed in., the shape of a hotel to bejjtuiljr .era. Commonwealth avenue, Boston.- The structure will be built of steel andi 'stone, and cost 3,000,000 d01a... . '.' . Excess "of 'TT.S. . expenditures over receipts was, from_July Ist, 1894, to May 14th; 1695^50,404,887 dollars. Aggregate excessßinceiJulyi Ist, . 1893 was 120,200^147- And still going 0n., , ( : . ;. w . A medical jnurnal gives these; remedies^, for toothache. :j.j(il, ) Oil 0f cloves, 1 drachnvj- tincture of Indian, hemp, 1 drachm 1 drachm. Mix. ( 2,;) Oil b^epp,ermint, I drachm; spirit of e^er 1 , rdrkch^j'^ct^ of opium, 1 drachm/ "Mix. To be inserted in the cavity of ithe tooth, on a little cotton-woojw .Y>. x. il ; A man died recently in New York after licking an envelope. He wan poisoned by decaying animal matter from the glue, getting into a sore in his mouth. No ; poisons are more deadly than those; produced by the decay of animal matter.^ who lick envelopes in s sealn^g v th&n : da ; ifr at their, pwn. risk. ...,.; In .tine>of* the>(3;ippsland (Vie.) cemet-' cries interments have to take place under water, which rises in the graves to about 4 feet from „the top, and tha coffins float half w^ayijown. The burials could not be completed till the coffins had been pushed down with poles and held there till enough earth had been thrown in to 'weight, them down. Under such circumstances, it would almost become jinQcesßary to load the coffins with weighty. \ after ith& method adopted in burials £t_ sea. A nQWjl.electtjcisi,!" hair-cutting and singing /appara^ Has . .be^mtr^uced from America. It consists o£a, #dinl> f the teeth of which are covered with platinuta wire, a simple contrivance by means of which this wire is raised to a bright heat.. The apparatus on being moved through ;the hair cuts it evenly. The German Emperor recently received a peculiar present; a- pair of scissors, but so exquisitely made as to be valued at.Lßq^;3fLe donor* a steel merchant of SpMing^ had the Emperor's portmt.^an^'lionie 1 celebrated historical buildings engraved upon them. .. The pngrayer is -said to have worked far fully five, years over his task. . . ' The Minister for Mines aays Government is not likely to increase the irpnibonus to ; li20,0p0, as suggested by Messrs Siemens. j There are 140 inspectors of factories in the .colony,} five of whom are salaried4— four men iliiid' one woman. A proposal to j tax the employment of domestic servants is being considered by the French: Ca^fiefc :~ ■ Er-tscheu I Er-taoheu ! I Er-fcaohoo-oo* OQ.JII ; TJtaße ajtafirßj.wmptoms of a cold. aif^cmllty ; atuMnesa, sore thrqak^rid general misery. If negleoted, leads on, to brbnchltla and Inflammation o£ tie' lungs. Try Parkinson's lime syrup. It will care you. Is per bottle, anywhere by post 1b 23. Pabkinson and Go, Chemlßts, Mawhera Qaay, Grey, month. — Advt. Potato Onioua, Fruit Trees. The celebrated Monarch Rhubarb roots (frown to such an enormous Biza by Mr P Swingland, at GrßircEX and Smith's.— Advt. Ladles In search of a good warm well fitting Ulster or Jacket, can vest assured that they will be well pleased with a visit to Thomas & M'Beath, who are showing an exceedingly oheap line in Girls and Maids'—Ulsters, and whose atock of Mantles and • Jackets la unrivaled.—. Advt.. ■.*'.■'■..-. • . -V. ' - : . _ ; ''„'■'■■. It is really astonishing the way drapery Is being slaughtered by. Christopher Smith.' Those in need of bargain* should not miss this opportunity of purchasing new goods at half-price. -r-Ai>ra. We hive juat purchased a manufactured stock of Gents' and Youths' Macintoshes subject id » heavy discount. Intending purchasers can get a first-class article at a redaction of 5s in the £, at T W Tymons & Co.tt.Advt. BLANKkTS,-4Tbe best value In New Zaaland is to be had at T W Tymohs & Co- both inEngHsh and Colonial. Alio, special value in Qullfca» ;Rugs and Sheet* ings. Heary Quilled Flanntlittw §d.— AW*. ' •:•■.:■ :;'.'.

T W'fJMfflß-* o ar ? 18/I 8 /" 1 KnUted WBttS ** v tl of Tweedß.and.Coatlng*-rln' rgood fitlßacßrteioty.7rADVT. . ; *• Perhaps you'would not think so, bat; a very large proportion of diseases n«ew ; York y come from essness. . t*bu»| catching cold." *9+ ftCytni Edson.i ••It is such a simple thing and so common, that very few people,'- unless It Is a *»»:■ , of pneumonia, pay any attention to cold. There are a great many ewes of -eatawah: andconsumptlon which have 'their on«ln in this neglect of the simplest preoautjon "of every day life. Tbe moet senßiole -•dVlce l-s^wben "yen have one, get rid of £a?so*n as possible. By all meanß do -^ neglect ' il" »r Edaon^oes^oUj 1 ■ you how to cute a cold but we^ will. Take Chamberiaih's Cough Remedy. It =wlll relieve the ldfip, ** «P PCfc °i* ' i .open the Secretions and »o»n *U prtmanent cure. For sale by H. Wii- - HAfis, chemiatV Greymbuth.