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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4991, 26 April 1889, Page 3

Speaking at Wyndham on Monday the Minister of Mines said he had been a good deal amused to hear of the complaints from this'part of the colony relative to Mr Mack ay’s report on the tin discoveries, complaints that he had nob tested the ground sufficiently and had not shown the value of the claims and shares. In his opinion the report was a very sensible one ; it said that no doubt tin had been discovered, that more valuable discoveries might yet bo made, and that it would it be better if the people went in for prospecting more thoroughly instead of dabbling in shares. Throughout the report there might bo read between the lines the opinion that sufficient work had not been done, and such appeared to him to bo the case. Ho had gone to considerable trouble in endeavouring to get a hundredweight of the ore to tend to the Paris exhibition but had failed—Pegasus was as yet unable to produce that quantify. Orders have beou received at Portsmouth directing (he Victory, .Nelson’s flagship at the bat tle of Trafalgar, to bo out of the dockyard’s hands by a given date. Over £IO,OOO has been expended on the ship in making her watertight, and it is said sho will uuw lest hundred pars,