PROPOSED DRIVE FROM THE PUMPING ASSOCIATION SHAFT.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2314, 29 March 1876, Page 3

PROPOSED DRIVE FROM THE PUMPING ASSOCIATION SHAFT.

One of the gentlemen who proceeded to Auckland in reference to the proposed diversion of the balance of the £50,000 loan from sinking:the Pumping Association shaft to driving from the present depth of the shaft , towards the Bright Smile mine, returned to the Thames- last, night, and from him" we have learned some particulars regarding the progress which this proposition has made. The gentlemen .who proceeded .from the Thames with a view to forwarding the project which had been affirmed, at the public meeting held at the Theatre II oyal, were his Worship the Mayor (J. E. Macdonald, Esq.), and Messrs Hichards, Hioks, Eowe, and Hall. These gentlemen, in the 'first instance, waited on'' the. Superintendent, Sir. George Grey.'.jßis - ; Honor conceded in the : of diverting the balance of the loan to 'driving,. but declined giving any. decided, answer. He referred the deputation to the mortgagors, the directors of the -PumpingrAssociation, and to the General Government. The deputation promptly waited on the directors of the Ptimping Association, and at a meeting pf ,; the ; *lattcr a resolution was passed affirming the desirability of the course suggested,'' and; agreeing to it. Armed with this, the deputation ori". Saturday telegraphed to .the Hon Dr Pollen; Colonial, Secretary, to Botorua, where lie then was with .the' Govern or.. His reply was to the, effectthat ; he . was agreeable to the Aversion of tlie money to the purposeTf&ammended, but he would probably arrive ; on Monday in the . 1 B'owenW>«lfeiS' !;: «uggeßted ;that in the theSfetation should again wiiit j&tf ! but this was not ao'ted'upon , 1 f The'HonV Dr Pollen arrived in Au<® and' yesterday morning, and will probably, s'ee the deputation to-day'. Mr Ha)l, :of the ilburriia minei' finding that his presence, was required, at the Thames, re•'jjuttiedlast eveningjibiit the'other gentlemen have/remained in town in order to haw t'ho matter -definitely settled if possible. | : ,lt;is.satisfaotory to find that the H6n.:Dr ; , Pollen, acting on behalf of the General Government, has raised no objection to._ this , diversion of, the money, ' equally satisfactory that the mortgagors —the Pamping. Association-raised no objections,-so that virtually it rests with Lis 1 Honor the Superintendent, - and he, we are sure, will raise no objection to a project which, is so strongly represented as being most likely to conduce, to the welfare and prosperity of the Thames.