MARAK NUI.

Dunstan Times, Issue 882, 14 March 1879, Page 3

MARAK NUI.

In the Tinker’s Gully division of this disTict, i i fact. I mav say, at Devonshire gnUvanl Dr b-eal, minin', which is the cbi-f in lusrrv, is pursuing the even tenor of its wav ; some a-e washing down and gome are wishing ua some selling and others buying, but as this sort of thing 's being done on all go'd-fields there is nothing particular in it, Tue district, I may no’e, however, w-ars as healthy and prosperous an appuarauci as ever it di 1 since it was first known sum • 16 years ago as Thompson's di >gings. then if I miv me tfin term, the or.ici ms m 't.al wis obtaiue I by a retail process, viz —the pick and shovel, and the primi ive cradle, but now it is by by dranlic n-essnre, the pick an I shovd, leave alone ihe erad'e, being but li’-tle used. The svs'em ot hydrau'io s ni'dng is exceedingly interesting, an I in the construction of the w iter-racas, so ne of which are of great len'th, from ten 1 1 thi-tv miles, rare ingenuity an Isv m leiful perseverance has be n exhibite 1. and every credit is true to th • parties who have a i succ ■•'sfull v n irrie 1 out these unlertakiags in I deserve lly do they m Tit th ■ rich rewar Is they are n m reap ing for thdr Hast labours. Minns, as a ruV. are reticent as to the extent of their fin Is. but f-.iin what does now and again 1 -ok out, th>re is but very little oubt they a-e doing remark ib’v we’l, the. lust claim that w .shed un ” The B'ue Mount dn Com pany.” with 110!) ounces for five months washing, is good evi lence of this. Las' week Mo lean I Martin hi! a washing un. the quantity obtained did not, roach me, though from the general con'entedness of the pa-tv it wis fullv up to exn-nta'ion. The next to follow suit will h- 11 Murphy an 1 pirtv,” who luve been wishm; down fir neifiv a tsvelvem >n'h, an I a? they have had a gool snpi.ly of water nearly the whole >f th i time, their total it is exneeted wi I cutnolc'elv put in the shade that of the Mountain Coaimny, the only th’ng I can siy i> that I wish it may be double, if that will he pth ru -'hey are aHe lot of fellows, ever realv to -ive a helping hand when calel upon This pirtv displiyel wonderful e iergy in bringing in their head race an I opening the claim, having been ov-r fie years before they gut the colour o r gdd Shares in water races an I claims here, when they ch in e hands do so at al most fabulous prices, but it is very s i lorn however, they are caned with. At Devonshir'gully last week a small bit of a nee. it is true it possessel the first right of ’br-e boats f’-om the Cr ek. chan e' hands fo--I,'Ofi. th ■ purchasers being Mr .1 G Mel lor. s'orekeener. an IMrF. Morgan.butcher The sell rs were R Black and R Charles, wbn, I behove, are go : n r farming

The ripened expressions of sympathy for th" ''"“ivi' I snffirers by Hie late explosion at Kv annate are to he hj ard here Mr Gr’cnbvak. of DrybreaL an 1 Mr S Roil »ml Mr R SheoVrl, of Tinkers have comnvnc.il a e mvnss for subscriptions. an I frmn what t hear the remit will be most c.e likable.

Mr L G. M i lor. who is now the only business man at Tinkers, is making m st substantial improvements in his premises. They originally were compos ’d of corrugated iron and weather boards ; be is aiding away with the ia on walls, an 1 scrim and paper partitions, and is replacing them with stone. The hotel, store and bakery is pearly eo ainlete.l, and he contemplates the addition of new buildings for ironmongery and other branches, his hitherto limited did not admit of him going into to rw extent his in Teasing business dem m Is R-siles. the mining fwmlarivi that Mr Mad lor numbers amongst, his custom rs, th re is a large an 1 eve- increasing aP'icul-t"-el population settlin’ on the Spotti* Hnn Irel an i adjoinin’’ b'o-ks. there is ac co alin >ly a growing d -rnan I fo- such a a es tablish nent as he is erecting. Ph i hotel as fnmishel in a s v'c far surpassing what mi ih he exn-cteL but as Mr Mellor nai<-elv expresses him—'f— 44 he sees no r-asoo why bis frien Is and customers snonld not receteo eqti il value for their m ney at Tiakers as at other p’aees wi’h mo-e p-e. tensions, but perhans, n>t so sound at. the core ” This yon will -look- upon,.as 'very n»n«H life 4 an advertisement, but it. ig news There is talk aboait having the Mail eoanh to rnn ’h on -b he-e now that they have tha 4, luxury at St Bithans and Welshman's. T see no r ason tnyse'f, but before it dav’s so, prensnrmnst be brought to bear on the Vincent and Maniototo CoUUtle* to a*ak« tbs road.