KATIKATI.
[from our own correspondent/] Mr Vesey Stewart has had his atteri* tion drawn to an absurd sub-leader in jour local contemporary referring to his interview with the Hon R. •J. Seddon, and as Mr Stewart happened to be At Taeroa upon the -day on which 'it appeared, his first 'impression was to deal' with the matter 'in a truly Irish -spirit, 'by calling first at Phillips's store, sap-' , plying 1 himself with a suitable catting whip, and therewith to mildly instil the fear df God and 'regard for truth 'into , the mind of the presumed writer of the ! article in question; bub on second 1 thoughts, when 1 he looked at the little "paper, with an entire blank page denuded of any advertisements, he took oonapassion on the poor old man, and attributed the matter to the effect bf bilious attack * caused by the moribund position of the' paper, and under the circumstances called at the office to suggest to'his old friend > (who unfortunately was not at home) to take a blue pill at night, to be followed on the following' day- by some good Irish whiskey, to ie taken<inter- ' nally. ' \ ''•< ~h ' i But, joking apart, the 'insinuations relative to the 'Globo Assets Company, and the Waihi syndicate are as false as are all the statements in the calumnioaa scribble, as Mr Stewart never had any business connections (either directly or indirectly) with the Globo Assets'tJaor with the kindred institution to wni<*k it owes its existence, but for the information of our veracious •■ friend, he may I'be told that the few hundred acres -at" Waihi, which he has magnified 'into 20,000 or 30,000, are the property ofMr George Vesey- Stewart, the younger.; and in conclusion I may add that, with such a thoroughly practical man as Mr Seddon, who forta; 1 nately now presides over the management of our mining interests, the "public and the miner" may rest -satisfied that their interests will be duly guarded against any " nefarious transactions" even if Mr Stewart could 'be gnilty of being a party to the shortsighted dog-in-the-manger >policy of locking up the country from either the working miner or the circulation of that capital, which we so much require, and of which the benefits are so apparent in your dismcfc. We are already feeling the good effects thereof at Katikati, as Waihi gives us a ready market For any- l we produce, and 1 only wish we had more Waihi syndicates, more 'Crown mine syndicates, etc., to treat onr reI'fractory ores of this district, as, it is well known, they are quite unsuited to the working miner and can only be treated by a large expenditure of capital, which will probably give better returns to the miners employed than' to the capitalists who employ them. Monday, June 20th, 1892.
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 28, 25 June 1892, Page 8
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