ON QUARTZ. OR QUARTZ ON THE BRAIN.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume 1, Issue 44, 29 March 1884, Page 2

ON QUARTZ. OR QUARTZ ON THE BRAIN.

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I have had several doses of Brain Fever of difler*nt kinds' during my not an-eventful life, and I had (I flatterad ravseif) arrived at that stat® of callousness, or indifference to the leelings or thoughts ©f others, that entirely fitted me to become a naturalized inhabitant of anv part of Sleepy Hallow; Wakefield or Stoke not excepted, bat 1 find I was mistaken, for although the pleasures of a Roekville social hop,' or a Temperance tea fight os the damp grass, or even a Cricket match between the Crack teams of Takaka and Collingwood, when as a rule eaeh side score 0110200801 or a total of ifi, iatliding Sundries 8,

and the excitement of jhs, usuaLdaya, that fallows in the School room fail to draw from me even a passing thought. Yet 1 find that I can get excited even over a junk ot Qnartz; but then it must hare some geld in it, such as 1 saw in the Johnstons United, then i thiakkind reader even you would forgive me for getting excited To tell the truth [ was afraid to go. for like many more natural born idiots who pin iheir faith on a womans promise I to, had pinned minelover and over again upon a quartz reef, aad just as naturally got mast confoundedly sold, aad I was afraid t© visit the mine for fear J should be sold again; however I did

go and saw and examined for myself, and T am perfectly satisfied that there is a brighter future in stere for thejald claim and joasequently for the inhabitants of Collingwood, and I am very glad of it, aad whether it may be my lot to remain or g®, I feel certain that what with Quartz and Coal, the future of tha district is assured, aad that in m 7 mind beyond a doubt., let croakers croak who know no better, and as a proof of say words 1 quote th® following extract from a letter I have just received on the subject from a gentleman who knows rhe district, and who is just now making an inspection of the Thames Quartz Fields. He writes ’T have just bean all through the Thames Quartz Fields, aad I feel struck wi;h the thought of, what a much better show there is in Collingwood for Minerals, far better than,, in any of these districts, yoifi only want skill aad capital t© make it the richest mining district in .New Zealand/ 4

Now I can trust the opinion of my correspondent and I think oa this subject say own also, (although on many others I may not know more than ”an ordinary school girl* 4 .) and in conclusion 1 unhesitatingly 'assert that th@ Johnstons United Company have a splende i payable investment, and that the Red Hill containsTich quartz and well worth further and speedy development; taking these-faets into consideration, together with the proposed additions to your Coal and Iron industries, I say then that I heartily and " " sincerely congratulate you upon your coming years of prosperity, and at the same time I warn you to be prepared to take advantage of the social and monetary changes that are. about to take place. Increased prosperity mean® increased Population, and increased Competition of all kinds. Aad at the first sound of the trumpet of war I should not be a bit surprised to see aa iaflux of dashing Bar-maids, and swell Share-brokers from the West Coast. Then what will become of—’’The Inaoceat’ 4 ?

urcourse it is net my. desire to see an iaflux of undesirable inhabitants, aor de I think it likely to occur, the West Coast of to day is not the West Ceast.ot 16 years ago, and yet at the present day it is much ’’Faster’ 4 than the ordinary homely run ef Nelson

We, and #©u!d no doubt make its influence felt both in the ordinary daily business ot life, as well as in the more sacred social tnoughts of the home family circle., and possibly tor the better, at aU e>ents lei us hope that whatever change may take place will not be for he worse, and it will be our own faults it is not for the better. From past experience however I honestly confess that T do not prefer the hollow railway pace @f West Coast life. ’’The Pace’* 6a a nils, is too rapid t© last, and would knock out of time, even:

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