CORRESPONDENCE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5186, 5 June 1885, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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SiR,-In reference to what the Thames: member, Mr William Fraeer, eaid ;concerningi : Blook 27;.tenure,,on jWedpesday ' evoninsf,; it, is' that* *1 \ should ■ reply, " n'o t ' to'- dispute; ' but to'accprd with his remarks,for he. well knows all the ins antiV ,outX. ! 6.f miners' were deprive^' , of'th'e'ir';- permanent} jtehancy which 'the 1 G'cildfieids r gave them uhder (i mmqre.,.rights by an illegal transaction brought about by, the servants of the! Provincial 'Gbyernrnent./;; Why the Pr6yjn'cial u 'Gqvernmen]t'allowed theirservaats to traffic in the Block lands it is not for mo to , say—that was best known to themselves. What the miners were, then legally entitled to ttyey now 'tfisb'restpred to v or an equiyal'e'hti'-'lOur committee have nothing to'do with' the present freeholder; what he has done is legal and consi&tant with the law as it stands. Not so, however, with the Proyincial Government of 1868-9 through'; their eervante. They broke .faith miner, and succeeded in dragging.him'inloi ißeir illegal transactions, and in making him pay rent. On them tho onus rests. They did the miner a sorious injustice, and wo look to tho presont Government-to remove that injustice by restoring to ue ; the just rights which were bo rudely snatched away from us. Our conimiHeo .liuyp.. nothing to do with dutsido rOporls so'industriously circulated ; Wo shall proceed'. on', the , ' even tenor of our way, taking ;no notice of any, such reports, and we are sanguine that justice will be dono , ■■ us •■'by: the present Government. At any rate_jthore is an evident desire on their part 'Io 'do"~us justice so far in ■ ''"■ ■' J "WiiiiAiif Wood, , .Hon. Sec. Block 27 Oommittoo. Sandos-stroot, Block 27, ' ; ... June,4th, 1885;;:; .„; <~;■• -