BALCLUTHA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 89, 23 October 1869, Page 3

BALCLUTHA.

(From our Own Correspondent. } Of late an unusual amount of excitement has disturbed the public, if not the social mind around us, and in our midst. Our Hon. Representative had scarcely left the district when the fulfillment of Saxiy's predictions was looked forward to with terror, anxiety, and interesting curiosity. Indeed, so great was the t>xcifcement occasioned thereby, that the opening of the Church of England in Inch Clutha was postponed from the 6th until the 13th inst., and although the weather did not then prove so propitious as on the 6th, it was such m enabled the

friends of the church to come many miles to witness the consecration of this the first Episcopal Church in this district. To our friends of the English Church, the new edifice must be a great advantage, and if we may form any estimate of the congregation to be formed there from the number present on Wednesday, it must be numerous and influential.

The farmers are nearly through with the spring work, and the quantity of grain sown in the Clutha district this season far exceeds what was sown in any former year. The high prices recently obtained for oats here, caused that article to almost vanish from our inidsfc. Potatoes are plentiful and cheap, but no demand. The late rains have much improved the face of nature, and our settlers are sanguine of obtaining a rich reward next season.