Pessimistic Department

Of mere elementary professions, devoid of any practical illustration of the first principles of comprehensive mining, as demanded by the experiences and requirements of the present day and which is merely imbued with its own importance as a self assertive atom in the smallest world of scientific knowledge, but nevertheless to be regarded as an adjunct (ornamental or otherwise) of State importance.

It is of paramount interest that this game of chance should no longer exist, and that the people should demand from the State a more favorable recognition of its responsibilities to the mining industries of the Colony by at once adopting a vigorous policy of reform, and by such reforms build up a permanent and valuable reputation, unassailable by the doubts and suspicions that generally underly mining undertakings at the present day, Since commencing this paper I have had the opportunity of reading in "The Australian Mining Standard "of August 3rd most important and forcible opinions, in a paper read by Mr Nicol Brown, F. G. S. before the Geologists' Association, London, bearing generally on the chance subject of mining, and the remedy that must be applied in future. The lecturer refers to the remarkable far seeing forecasts of the late Mr Jevous when delivering a lecture in Glasgow, in 1859 entitled the