BLUE SPUR.
(From our own Correspondent.)
It is a very enviable position to be an " own correspondent " in a place like the Blue Spur, where one's ideas partake of the altitude, and are variable, as the climate. We should be a great -people were a stiff breeze at times to arise and clarify the mind, and make that clear which gets developed into a dense fog. The muddy atmosphere has suffered a slight irritation of late by a few letters which have appeared in the columns of the Times, purporting to be from your " Own Correspondent." Having for some time enjoyed that exalted privilege, I beg to inform your large constituency in this quarter that "the "articles" in question ai*e not from the pen of your " Own Correspondent." I have enough to do to answer for my own sins, without undertaking to answer for another's. I have no doubt that in order to answer the just expectations of an enlightened community it is necessary to employ extra talent, and that of a first-class order ; you have doubtless obtained that in the person of your " Mining Correspondent ; " but would it not be well, provided you require more than one general correspondent, to number their correspondence, one, two, and three, aa the case may be ; then again no one should tread upon my corns, for if I am not as black as your printers' devil, I am quite as sensitive. The public — that is, the churchgoing public — were quite taken by surprise by the announcement that the Rev. M. H. Martin has given up his charge. lam sure all classes unite in hopiJfg that the change may conduce to the, restoration of Mr. Martin's health?
m The Rev. Mr. Morrison (Presbyterian), a late arrival, preached here on Sunday last to a crowded house. There is a desire on the part of a good many to see this large district made into a collegiate charge, and Mr. Morrison, co-partner with Dr. Copland. Mr. Morrison is just such a man as would answer our purpose, as he is one ,of those who, to appearance, has a good deal of " wear ancf tear " in him.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 58, 20 March 1869, Page 3
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360BLUE SPUR. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 58, 20 March 1869, Page 3
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