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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 20, 8 July 1863, Page 6

The Majorca Diggings.-—The line bounding the division in this direction passed about midway between the towns of Talbot and Maryborough, and so long as the ground on this side furnished but a seanty subsistence to a few miners we were not interfered with. But when the rush to Majorca—situated within the jurisdiction of Mr. Crespigny—-arose, then came the question whether it was possible to clip off this piece of country for the assistance and advantage of Maryborough. The members of the district were communicated with, and we shall not be doing Maryborough an injustice when we add that false or distorted accounts of the desirability of the alteration must have been sent to the Government. The result, aided by a little political power, was obvious. There never was a Ministry in modern days equal to the O'Shanassy Administration for rewarding its supporters. Had not Maryborough supported Mr. Ireland's infamous measure to gag the press, to the scandal!) of the colony, and was it not therefore equitable that it should be rewarded? The solution of the problem was easy in the hands of such an unprincipled lot as the O'Shanassy Administration. Talbot opposes us, Maryborough supports us. Maryborough triumphed, and its triumph is shown in the alteration of the warden's boundaries in such a manner as to bring them in this direction within a mile and a half of the town of Talbot, and within a few yards of the town of Amherst.- Talbot Leader. A Waitahuna Notability.—There is an extraordinary individual living here who resides entirely by himself in a secluded gully, and from his romantic and un-digger-like habits, has been christened by his brother miners " Baron Munchausen." This gentleman rarely goes to work before ten o'clock in the morning, and then without mates, or what is familiarlv termed, works as a " hatter." The height of his ambition is to earn a pennyweight a-day, which is about the sum, with economy, necessary to support a man, and let this pennyweight be obtained ever so early in the day, he immediately ceases work till the next.— Daily Times.