THE RANGITOTO SILVER MINE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4662, 26 January 1877, Page 3

THE RANGITOTO SILVER MINE.

"Sceptic" writea to the West Coast Times: — " I notice in your issue of November Ist, you say 'tho first shipment of twenty or thirty tons will have to be taken down on men's backs to the foot of the mountain. This is expected to be accomplished, though it will be an expensive method of transmission, dnring the next month or six weeks.' Had e/en one ton been brought down and properly tested, or, better still, had Mr M'Rae's original proposal been carried out, ali this feeling of doubt and distrust would have been removed. I see that Mr H. Young severed all connection with Mr Leslie on December 23rd. Might I ask the reason ? I fancy there is a touch of the Leslie in the telegram to tha Ofcago Daily Times, signed 'Silver and Gold Miner,' and, if ho, hiw wonderfully he must have changed his opinion. It evidently shows how little his report is to be depended upon. Mr Young says ha has not asked Westland to contribute one shilling towards the company. Why? If it is such a good thing, it seems very hard th.it we should bs left out in the cold—almost, as y^u may say, have the bread taken out of our mouths. But I think there is yet another reason : ' Distance leuds enchautment to the view,' and he thinks we are too close at home to view it in sucli rosy colours as our Dunedin, Wellington, and -Christchurch friends do. Mr H. Yuung thinks I ought not to endeav >ur to prevent his introducing foreign capital to benefit the town. Of course, his motives are quite philanthropic ; not the slightest shade of self in the matter. Oh, dear, no. How kind ! Bub foreign capital has already suffered on the Coast. The Moonlight Reef, the Kanieri Race, and hoc genus omne, have operated succsstfutly on foreign pocke'js. If the Rsngitoto mines follow suit, which heaven forhid, the very name of Westland will stink in the nostrils of the rest of New Zealand."

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