BLUE SPUR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 22 February 1868, Page 2

BLUE SPUR.

ngavy caiamiYiea of 1033 of life and pro- > perty by the L)rm and flood with which * thi3 Province k3k 3 been visited, the Rev. ; Dr. Copland inWoved the occasion by I preaching in the Woof at three o'clock. V The rev. gentleman took for his text the 'thirteenth verse o&he 'lO3rd psalm, and was listened to withWtense iotereet'by. a- - large congregation-/ !•<' " ■ It is well knojcAjLt I i 0i 0 -Vaflhuj* matters to those w,'i<. frre .r^actics-liF^ acquainted with' them, bix.^y^V-s' "fy Y J bear mentioning the fact, :ht.:~'> eiV»e eT the larger claims there have be.-^t foral ' changes of late, several ot oi.: ■ ,*tn iattr shareholders having sold out. to .a con-, s »erable tune, and have left, and axe stil^aving for old country, whtre the, sn "g'Nttle pile they have -made in New Zsalan \will make them happy (as fat a? money v\\ <j o it) the rest of their daj^'. This is oi\ o f c wor st phases of society on the GoUfolds ; the friend who greete' you warmlyN to . day - ig gone to-morrow, regretted all t l^, moro that - he takea with . him so much oithe motive power of the ■ Colony ; and if he leave 3 mu( £ wealth behind him, it federally falls~ into the hands of those, w^ w h' en they have enough, will justVfol'W in the wake of their predecessors}, lie fortunate miner . appears averse to mab New Zealand his adopted country ; ail those who are struggling for \the deired haven, and have strength of^ierveind determination of purpose to mate thiUand their herae> have wind and tidi agaiist them ; they aro baffled through a\viti;ted economy* the want of position, c r th^ v loan of a imd" y to assist him int> his,proper sph re,-^ "That many a fliwer is born "to riuah" unseen, and waste its sweetness a . the desert air."

Episcopalian Church. Ihe *c Martin, Messrs. Herbert and B» too* the chair, and comp endea _ 1 TlTtZ^t gave a statement Kmgdt>m vr Wr -?^ t Lawre nce to the of tltexr proceed^ & Oom _ =—f -is: ik>