BLUE SPUR MINING NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 56, 6 March 1869, Page 5

BLUE SPUR MINING NEWS.

(From our own Correspondent.) Hall and Co. fired their blast with 25 cwt. of powder, -which threw out the debru with excellent effect. Morrison and Co. have washed up in one of their faces, and the results were exceedingly good. Hales and Co. are raising their taUrace from ten to twelve feet higher, and tend to give a gradient from the face of working, as far as the eye can perceive, of about ten or twelve inches to twelve feet. The water supply last week was rather .scarce. The few showew of rain tlus week have refreshed the head sources, which was very acceptable. Nothing more of importance has taken place in mining affairs since my last. All the claims are in full vigour, sluicing. Allow me additional space for a few remarks on the bread question, in reference to a letter signed " itight Honest," which appeared in your last, and censured your ir.ioing correspondent for an unwarrantable intrusion into other people's affairs. It strikes me forcibly that '* Eight Honest " is not a baker, or he Tould have assumed a different signature, le also states that the report of the inVfctment made by one of our bakers in a cement claim was unfounded-, in fact. I tk* to inform " Right Honest,"— not f*°\ any malice, or dislike,— that I am preiredto substantiate every word ad▼*no| in my last mining report.. Withont-^ I firmly believe ther«tsyery inducement for another t»wgjytiie Spur, which would, from L what lan learn, meet with every en-, fWfmff^i providing the price gar

loaf did not exceed 2d. above Dunedin prices. The poople here are determined not to submit to this wholesale imposition any longer. Soreral families have commenced to bake their own bread, while other* have reduced their usual quantity to ont-half. Let ut pause for a moment, and consider th» combination of the bakers. I have n« doubt you have heard the current report of why Mr. Boulton, at Lawrence, dissociated from the club. It would occupy too much of your .valuable space to go into details ; and as a matter of courtesy to " Right Honest," I should not like to tread heavy upon his corns, but to keep olf them altogether may net be salutary for him.. However, as he is tke first right honest baker I ever met with, I wish him God •peed. Now, sir, I jeare you and the public to judga of his integrity — not mentioning the short weight or the inferior article, for if if I did '• Right Honest" would consider it all-insupportable. The only conceivable way to cool down the exorbitant; price of bread is for the married peopl* with families to form an a&ooiation similar to that of the bakers, and advertise for tenders ; then they will stand a chance of being supplied with bread at the same price as the Tuapeka Hospital, vis., B£d. per loaf. These remarks should be sufficient to open the eyes of "Eight Honest." I can assure him I era not at all thin in the skin, knowing Jacob's ladder is a hard road to travel. One item I have omitted. A subscription list is going round for the benefit of W. M. Ross, a miner from here, who now lies in tlie Hospital in a consumptive state. Upwards of Lls was collected when I last saw the list ; and I believe the collectors intend to give Lawrence a call, as he is pretty well known there, and, 1 doubt not, their liberality will extend in his direction.