LOOK OUT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 129, 28 July 1870, Page 5

LOOK OUT.

(To the Editor of the T tapeka Times.) Sis, — Would yon be kind enough to find room for the following few lines in your next issue, as it may be the means of putting upon their guard some of my fellow miners, so that they may not be leaving portable articles of any value ' about their huts when away at work, or;

elsewhere. I beg to inform them, and you, Sir, that I was visited on Saturday lpst by a very — mark, I say very — suspicious looking individual, who has been prowling about these ranges the last day or two, looking for, he knows what. He canio to our paddock, and seeing something in my verdant appearance that made him think I'd not taken to grow, he at once selected me for his pnmp, and soon began to work. I, too, taking my measure of him. His appearance struck me at once as that of some Government officer who had been entrusted with some small sum of money, and had decamped without rendering account of the same. He may be known by his display of jewelry. Such a breast pin, if it is not a Urumnrigem one, would pay for all the picks points used in my last paddock. Then, Mr. Editor, if you had seen how often ho pulled out, I was going to say his, but I will say, a watch, such a beauty, a real patent horizontal four hole Geneva, one that would put in the shade Artemua Ward's sixteen dollar repeater, Then a walking stick that seemed more for persuading a man to lie quiet than any other purpose. As I remarked above, he commenced to work the pump in earnest, telling me all he knew, and as I knew nothing, I told him that I did not know. Having sucked me dry, I started him away over the nobs, telling my mate to watch him while 1 went to see if all was right at the hut. On arriving at the door I found unmistakeable signs of his visit there from the prods of the before mentioned stick in our not macadamised floor, and as the key happens to be a bit of string, he had taken the liberty of seeing how we furnished the inside. Now, Sir, as I intend this for a caution, perhaps it would be as well to remind the individual alluded to that the water out here is particularly cold, and sometimes very muddy, and that old hats are plentiful, good ones scarce, and T have seen gentlemen of his stamp who, after prying a"bout where they have no business to be, really did not know their own hat. Not missing anything from the hut, I returned to my mate, who pointed out our visitor pulling foot over these gentle rises in a direction which, if persevered in, would soon lead him from the habitations of man, and, if followed for an hour or so, would soon make him sorry for believing so much of what was told him by your humble servant, Doo Em Bkown. Bungtown, July 26.