FOURTEEN MILE BEACH

Dunstan Times, Issue 509, 19 January 1872, Page 2

FOURTEEN MILE BEACH

(FROM a correspondent. ) January 3. 1872. In mining matters the want of water is be ng seriously felt by the sluicing companies about here. Messrs. Heron and party have been busily occupied in repai ing and cleaning their water racvs and gening everything in order for the summer sluicing campaign, The Messrs. Quaylcs having started outing their new race from one of the trihnt.iries of the Gor fc e Creek ; which, although at a very great alti'ude, will give tin m a supply of-Wa'er for summer sluicing jurioses. Disappointment and grumbling have been nanifes'ed in this locality ; by the reck’ess nannerin which the Provincial monies have been squandered, without any rquiialert vhatcvn in return for their outlay. hi' gle 'reek which has’ ecu 'hescene of numerous botching—to keep th“ road open, and make it passable Af'cr an out ay of marb IOCOf. is left in amove use’ess and worse sae ban ever. An a'tempr. ha'r ghj e:i made to build a retaining wa l to prevent tic constant slipping of'he hill obstructing the rafSc, has proved a failure, after six or icvcn mm having In cn employed for a consi lerable lime past. One half, or less, die labor and cost, won d have placed a iritlge aer. ss the sti earn- and the useless outlay have be n avoided, and instead of having to undo all that hj s bien done, a substantial crossing a few yards lower down the creek could have been erected. If this matter is n.,t shortly attended to, die first heavy rain will have the effect of ■ornple'e y stop iug the traffic between Alexandra and the Teviot. The Christina- festivities of the year IS7I, ire now numbe ed among the thi gs that ave been ; and the funeral baked mints of the departed year have fun ishul for hj lie christening b ast of its young and sturdy mccessor. Our time fas passed pb asantly n intermittent fee ling, ami chronic booze t" the prevalent state am-ngst He Maj sty's lieges in thi' tin st im ortar.r part of her dominions. For some time t revimts to the holidays preparations for eveiy cmceiv, ble aa usci. ent have been in progress in and about the Mount B ngor Capital. Sul scriptioi s for all possible events have been on foot, from a guinea towards building a chapel, to a half Sovereign to a local race meeting. , Our visiting friends have now returned to 'heir lares elpi-mtes, aa" by this time have resume I their various occ - patinns, until the gr at Mo-t 1 Day shall have once more arrived ; and, altli aigli it is sea’ cely in season to moralise up nt e many idiosyncracios that have dev lop d themselves in sundry in ivi Inals ■br ing the past few weeks. I cannot help iastanci g one or two strange sights that came aero s our vision. Mb; saw the chosen o e of Mount Ida in all the gb aies that shou.o encompass a M.H R., in the proud consciousness of having done his duty by his e. nstitnents, and tobim-clf; and whose hard earned honors had blossomed, and would now bring forth the fruit, that for many many years he hail so anxiously 10. ked t. rv. ard to ami who told us of the gb riotts existence it was the happy lot of a M.H.11. to enjoy while in the supposed .111111103 duties of his station, and made our mouths water by his dea-ription of the almost etheral pleasures he had participated in whilst in Wellington. Who also told us that he had procured for the Mount Ida pe p’e during the session—all and everything they wan ed with one exception—aid who told us also, t hat we, Mount Longer, te ', if wo wanted anything must not look to him for assistance, but must let p through our member, Bradshaw, who hud he n f «ully misrepresented in the matter of the Moa Flat Sale. An I who left ns under the impression, that like the Briti hj Army at the “ Battle of Solferino, ’ he would have distinguished hims> If imim ns ly in the “H.R.,”byhis absence therefrom. We also raw one of oui lownunn n, win S' gel up was of such a natme, that we were inc fined to heliev that ho hud taken a; athet ic anil everlasting leave of his family, aid joined the Highland pcrsuuHin. And we also saw ourselves re uming home duiing die small hours of the Aew Year 1110111 wi.h km-lly eye, a beaming countenance, and a tend, ncy uiapp p exy—prop sing on- more cheer for the ladies, •• God bbss them.” At the same time -baking ourselves by tlie hand, and wishing you .dr. Editor, and your readers, many m.-.ny happy returns of the season. [The exigencies of “sjaco,” have 00m,'cllc I us to reluctantly cundencc nur parrespondents’cpis;lc. Ed. D. T.j