THE "HAVEN" GOLD MINING COMPANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6051, 9 April 1881, Page 5

THE "HAVEN" GOLD MINING COMPANY.

Yesterday morning a meeting of the Auckland sharebrokers was held in reference to tlie prospectus of the Haven Gold Mining Company- it was resolved to take action in .conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce. A meeting of the committee of the Chamber was held at 3 o'clock, when it was agreed to 3end to London ihe following telegram :— "Haven's ground coloured red on plan otvned and worked here—Signed, Thos. Moekis, Chairman, Chamber of Commerce ; JOSEPH Newman, Chairman Brokers' Association." This was sent to Mr. Barker, of the London Stockbrokers' Association. The Thames Advertiser says :— "From inquiries we learn that the promoter is no other than the irrepressible Eicke, who in the early days the Thames carried on the business of mining speculator and company promoter, and floated the Golden Gate claim. This was known to carry the Golden Crown and Caledonian lodes, and we believe was subsequently part of the Imperial Crown ground. It appears that Mr. Eicke obtained a mining lease from the native owners, and this was no doubt registered at the Native Lands Department in Auckland, as stated in the prospectus.. That it was afterwards Talueless there can be no doubt, because other leases of the same character were #btained, and treated as waste paper. The Mr. H. E. Kice referred to was a native interpreter who invested in various mines here, and afterwards negotiated several leases from the natives when a member of the firm of Rice, Mainwariug, and Hamlin, interpreters and native agents. No doubt Mr. Kice obtained the signatures of the natives to the mining lease obtained by Mr. Eicke. Many of the statements made in the prospectus are strictly correct, and show that the promoters have carefully compounded the gilded bait to catch unwary investors, and if possible to avert the suspicions of Anglo-New Zealanders in London. The company obtains its name from the street, near the Caledonian mine, shown on the plan, and included in the area alleged to be handed over to the company for the modest consideration of £30,000 in cash and scrip. Mr. Eicke, the chief promoter, was at one time the agent of the Bauk of Australasia at Geelon?. Ho was also an auctioneer, and for some time followed the same avocation at the Thames."