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MOONTA.
tFrom our own Correspondent.]
•fiioonta. -June 27.
The-strike at Moonta is now a thing ot the past,
and the miners only wish that the report of
Captains Prisk and Trestrail may -be made public,
to show whether the statements relative to the
mismanagement of the mine, as made to the
•Directors by the miners, were tree or false. I can
■only state from what 1 hear that the management
•new prevailing is far in advance of anything that
has been hitherto done at the Moonta. Kot
being a practical or theoretical miner I can
Slot presume to speak On the ■ matter; but
I can say that the men are generally sa
tisfied with the present management. Great
alterations have been made since the men went to
work; regard has been had to the safety of men's
lives in putting footwevs and other protections,
which will ensure them from danger. Had this
been done and a fair wage given, the strike would
never have taken placer uu; when men are ground
down in wages to a .peint at which tliey 'cannot
exist 110 one can wonder at the result. This is one
of the richest mines in the world, and if it -cannot
pay wages to remunerate the working miners,
where is tfce mine that can? I do not believe that
the Directors knew file state of things existing at
Moonta -or Wallaroo, or they never would have
allowed it to prerail; but the mutter has at
length ■heenbrouekt to a climax, and "die wish is
now urgent to know whether captains-or the men
were wrong.
The festival dt the Bald Hill is -deferred urttil it
is known that -Captain W. Warniington is dis
missed.
feest week one of the landers ■shouted down torn
man in the -shaft that Captain Warniington was
here again. This was told to others underground,
when-the men at once left work and came to-She
surface. The news went from -shaft to shaft, end
nearly all the men from underground-in «cick
?time mustered. They were then made awareMbat
'Captain Warniington had only ridden through the
■mine, and was not acting in his official capacity,
when wort was again resumed. This wili shew the
-feeling of the men in the matter.
The ■ Earkarilla and Yelta Mines are still im
proving. iS. large QuanUtyofora lias been brought
to grass from the former during the last f ©Knight,
and-1 have heard this morning that a lode of black
•ore has toren cut.
Great dissatisfaction is "-ffelt here that no money
•is on'the li6timates for Moonta.
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