CAMBRIANS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 945, 28 May 1880, Page 3

CAMBRIANS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Mr Michael Healey, Mr John Jones’s ■driver, met with an accident lately, but he is now recovering. Mr John Thurlow’s son—Joseph—also dislocated his wrist.

The traffic to and from Mr Jones’s coal mine is now very extensive. St. Bathans ■and Blacks seem to be the best customers, and one customer comes all the way from Alexandra for the famous brown lignite of old Welshman’s Gully. Messrs Clunie and Teague have lately added to their already extensive race, and Mr John Thurston is the contractor for a race for Thomas and Co., which goes from Dunstan Creek to Vinegar Flat. Messrs Thurlow’s water is let to Mills and party for LG per week. Williams and party ad vertise water for sale. The rival tail races are proceeding, but Gray and Co. are far in advance of the older company. Wc receive a constant supply of fruit, vegetables, and forest trees from Alexandra and the Teviot. Our latest commercial visitor is a tailor, who takes orders and—deposits. Even our very lives have been taken by two rival insurance agents. We arc a very moral people. I have been here two years, and have abandoned all hope of seeing a murder committed. The very dogs don't tight, and a drunken man is like a curiosity. 1 believe at a not far distant date a drunken man when found in Welshman’s Gully will bo staffed, packed in a barrel of spit its, and sent to the Otago Museum. There are a good many married folks here, but there are also a good few magnets and needles, which means that there a good few, or a few good, bach dors and maids. Wuen the needles will run to the magnets, or the contrary, I cannot say. For my own part I must do one of two things—either invest in a wife or buy another blanket. Ir, seems all very well to say “got a wife,” but—whose wife will 1 take ? That’s what 1 want to know.