ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 600, 17 October 1873, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

(Communicated). October 14, 1573. What is the reason nothing now is heard of the Spur Grass Flat squabble— Was the veto as given by the Board of Inquiry so fnl! of wisdom that nemo have dared .to question it—Was it settled that the Cock at «os we>e to mike wiy for the dgger, the backbone an 1 sinew of the country, or is it. that the Cockatoo having once settled npo i rhe soil, is *■<> be allowed to retain it ? S n hj like questions as these are firing from hill to hill, seeking an answer, hut no-one it appears lias th i pow ;r of answering. It is hut seldom 1 pry the slightest attention to rumor, but in this matter, rumor has P, that there was never any general question | a issue, lut that for-purely personal moj lives the matter was stirred up, one who I has unwillingly hern lying at anchor for | the oast month or so kept the squabble up, I and that during his semi-quie-cont state. | the maker lias been allowed to cool. Facts | are stubborn, and as it is well known that ■ since the occurrence of a more than nnfori tunate accident at Alexandra, neither farI mor or miner has been heard—rumor in [ this instance must be credited with being 1 not fir wrong. To the more sensible portion of the community, the amount of talk that has hcen over the value of Grass 1 Flat has been good breath thrown away, and many with me, sincerely hope as the resnee'era of peace and order that, we shall hear no more of it ; let the miner but prove that the ground is payable, and he will find but few impediments thrown in the way of working it. Cf items of general news there are but few, and among the mining interests, theie are but few also, I do not hoar tii any i ich

finds, or to the contrary—the majority appear to be waking wages, and that to all accounts is the average ■ The brotherhood of the Court Pride of Alexandra A. O.F. have taken the matter of Brother James Simmonds into consideration, and with that amount of fraternal feeling which pervades Friendly Societies throughout the Colonies, have determined in giving him a benefit in the shape of a Concert and B dl, the date and other particulars of which, I am given to understand will appear by advertisement, consequently I shall not entrench on that domain. Simmonds, it will he remembered had his thigh broken at Messrs. Theyers and Beck's brewery on the occasion of the sad accident, when poor Edward Thomnson met his death. I hope n >t. only' the Brothers of the Lodge, of which he is a member, will muster strongly', hut that a good crowd of the.memhers of neighboring Bodges will put in an appearance. I do not know whether it is so arranged, but .1 should like to see the Members appear on the occasion in full regalia.