BLUE SPUR

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 14 March 1868, Page 3

BLUE SPUR

(From our Own Correspondent.) The Church of England Committee met in the School on Tuesday evening. There was a full attendance of members ; Mr. Williams in the chair. Minutes of former meeting were read and confirmed. A letter was read from the Secretary of the Lawrence Committee anent ministerial supply, our request for a supply being fortnightly, and it is hoped we may obtain it. Lists were given in of promises to the manse fund to the amount of nearly £20 ; and be it observed this is very good work, considering that Mr. Herbert collected all the pounds previously, the shillings only having been left for collection. It was remarked that wherever Mr. Herbert was sure of a pound, he was there to get it. Of course this tells in favor of that gentleman's assiduity, and we don't object that he netted a hundred or so for the cause, if he did so. There being no other business before the meeting, it was adjourned to next Tuesday, to give some of the Lawrence Committee an opportunity of being present. We are having a much better supply of gospel privileges than we were wont to have, and the public avail themselves of those privileges to a large extent. When there is preaching in the School, this commodious building is generally full, and sometimes overflowing. Next Sabbath Mr. Martin is announced to preach at ten o'clock in the morning (sun time), and Dr. Copland is expected to preach as usual at three o'clock, when on both occasions, weather permitting, we expect i large attendance. Constable Mcc, who has for some time occupied the position of " keeper of the peace " at the Spur, has been removed to a more "fruitful" field. It was feared that had he remained much longer here he would have died of ennui ; and it is very likely the Commissioner of Police thought so too, and removed his trusty servant to a more "spirituous" atmosphere. Whether a more regular supply of gospel ministry has anything to do ■with his removal or not I leave your readers to conjecture ; but it speaks for itself when a district of upwards of 500 persons can do without such a functionary, and this on a diggings.