ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 451, 9 December 1870, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

(FHO.M OUR OWN CORRESPOND! NT.) Decp.vbi r 8. Despite almost superhuman exertions on the part of your “Own” to procure, for the information ot your readers, some startling items, I am son-y to say that my letter tin’s week will not rise above—nay, will fall far below the ordinary dead-level of a correspondent’s letter. We i. as Shakespear observes, “ Since it is as it is, we must mend it for our own good.” (What reference this quotatation has to correspondence front Alexandra I leave to the imagination of my—that is, your—gent’e readers.) It is said that when materials for his tori an s are scarce countries are peaceful and prosperous, ergo, Ah xandra is peaceful an 1 pmsj crons, ior what is a newspap.er correspondent but a limit, d histo iai; ? 'Having got so far, I pro ceed to Chiistmas. llather a big jump; but, as Christnms sports pervade the minds of the people of the Alexandra district, 1 don’t see why I should not ma e it. The programme prov dtd for the ddectati n of the surrounding miners, which will be found in another column, comprises all the usual athletic cmuests ami a variety of contests imt ath etie, the victors in which will ho well rewarded for their skill, a goodly sum hating been subscribed for prizes. The gentlemen who made the valntions for the Corporation seem to have been singularly fortunate, having pleased everybody, for not a single aopeal was lodged against their assessment. Verily the character of the British ratepayer has been wonderfully ini pro ed by the salubrious atmosphere of the Manulierikia Junction. And now lo mining. Aye, there’s the rub. There is no news, as I said before ; but tl e insatiable appetite of readers must le gra itied somehow. Were I a poet, I might invoke a muse or something of that hind to in si, t me; but, 1 tin* oily a lumipajir ciriespombnt, I must dej end nit rely i pou the very small quantity of 1 rail s my friends ,t ive me the credit, of possessing. At Conroy’s 1 hear (hat Iverson's Reef is coining quite up to anticipations, and that no great time is likely to elapse before a, mushing machine will 1 epnherising the precious quartz, At the Ha!f-niiie Beach and the Point the claimholders are still activdv engaged in stripping, and as for the race-owners, the late downfall of rain has played right into their hands. This sums up my budget. Next week, however, I hope to be ab'e to give a comprehensive account of all the mining operations in the district. And now au revoir.