THAMES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1465, 13 December 1879, Page 19

THAMES.

t Gbahamstown, December 4th. f .. The Advertiser reoorca a visit to the Alburnia mine to-day. The prospects are equally*. as good as before. ; Scrip stood, at- the cl >se— (ex dir.) sales," 57s 6d ; buyers, 57* 6d j-sel-.'' 1 lers, 60* - The Coromandel goldfieldi are looking u^ again; 1160. ounces of gold were brought' up to-day. — — — A dividend, has been declared in the ,MoiinaA taiari mine tf 2a 61 parehaw?, absorbing L1650,r, makiqg. LIO,OOO diatiibuted in mining divideudswithin,the week. , t , \ '•„„-, ; ',-.•« THE MAERBWHfiNUA DISTRICT. '• The following is; the report', of the Grold'fieMs Committee on ,the petition of Coarlea J*.Roberta and others, of-Maere#heaua: — The Goldfields Comn)ittee,\to whom was referred toe petition of .Charles F. Roberts and others at Afaeretrhenua, praying that the Maerewhenna River be declared a watercourse for the discharge of mining debris, &is. t failing which, toat a Commission ba appointed to inquire into the whole subject, have directed me' tojreport, — . , t '••.•. . >, , L That the Committee, having carefully considered the petition, the action of your Committee in previous years, and the various recommendations which have from time to time been reported to- the House, are of opinion that no further recommendation which, they c Mild make would be likely to afford a satis-, factory or final solution to the difficulty as between the miners and riparian proprietors resident in the Maerewhenua district;, unless it were deemed advisable to recommend that the M«orewb.enua district be taken ont of the goldfield. 2. Tv« Committee do not see their way at present to make any such recommendation ; at, th« same time they are of opinion that the holders of water-race property in the district «£fec*ed tnitfht well consider whether it might not be wfce to surrender all the rights they now vessel under ! tbe Acts in force relating to gold ' field* — retaining their watnr-race property for all pnrposes other than mining — tor sach reasonable compensation as would offer an in-, <?u"ement to the Government to , meet them in a liberal spirit. 3. The cancellation of the goldfield would ■ enable a la'gearea of Crown laud to be placed.' m the market for agricultural settlement, which ; at pwsjnt is withheld from sale as being pro; hahly auriferous. 4. Th« Committee wish, however, distinctly to be understood th*t tbey do not recommend any removal of the Maerewhenua, Mining Dia- r trict from the goldfield unless the fullefo: consent of the owner.' of mil iug property inte-res-erl R^all have been first voluntarily offered to the ' Government. ' ,