FOURTEEN-MILE BEACH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 140, 13 October 1870, Page 7

FOURTEEN-MILE BEACH.

(From mir oiuu Cm-respondent.) Tne old Molyneux, wonderful to relate, is keeping at a working level at this late season of the year ; and despite equinox, new moon, and all the various meteorological ills that were prophesied by the local Zadkiels and Saxby's, there is every chance of a good season yet for mining parties along her banks. I am glad to record the result of the Messrs. Quayle's enterprise on the east side of the Fourteen Mile. As they only took down a small paddock for the purpose of testing the ground, just giving themselves sufficient room to bottom, the result has been five ounces out of the pump well, there not being space sufficient to take the remainder of trie ground out. However, as they intend stripping a large paddock during the summer, there will be something grand to chronicle next season. Messrs. Heron aud Nott are hard at it, and expect to take the bottom off their large paddock next week, when I will inform you of the result.

The remarkable man at the Teviot, who heads his reports as your Eoxburgh correspondent, must be one of those unhappy flowers " that's born to bloom unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air." Why was he not born on Prussian soil ? Had tha 1 ; been the case, be must have had Bismarck's billet, and held the position of " Chef d' Affairs of Poloniland." We were electrified on reading his last despatch, as we thought him capable of better things. Instead of the kingly roar of the teetotal lion, wd have had our tympanum shattered by the hideous hee-haw of the scribbling moke. In these days of spiritual manifestations, there can be no doubt but the shade of Cervantes has invested your correspondent with the cast-oft' armour of that pink of chivalry, the Kuight of " La Mancha," and mounting him on Saucho's donkey, he is now ready to run a tilt at imaginary windmills on behalf of mythical gig lamps. One would have imagined from the profound depths of Eoxy's wisdom, he would have elicited the fact that a little mildly wicked opposition strengthens the generality of mankind in their good resolutions ; but from the evident signs of mental blindness shown by poor Eoxy, it is not going too far in saying that he cannot see a very great Wciy beyond his abstaining bsak. What a spice of the old leaven, and a hankering after the fleshpots, be shows in his composition, from the evident recrrct be evinces at having placed himself by his own rash act beyond the possibility of participating in the seven tumblers he brays about. It was not the scarcity of water we objected to, but quite the other way. It was the scarcity of liquor, and had Eoxy been at the head of the Prussian administration, we should not now have to pay so dearly for our French brandy. How frequently has it been mentioned that a little learning is a daugerous thing; we should have supposed that after hearing that sublime and eloquent lecture on " Ignorance " your contributer would have had the good sense not to have ventured an opinion up-m matters that were clearly beyond his comprehension ; but there are always " fools that madly rush where angels fear to tread." However, as your literary lightning conductor seems a very funny sort of chap, we shall be glad to hear from him again, when we hope to be able to treat him as a gentleman — as Wittles says, "as long as he behaves as sich."

John Bibbs fell in love with a maid ; each night near her window he stood, and ther j, with his soft serenade, he awakened the whole neighbourhood ! But vainly he tried to arouse her sleep with is strains so bewitching ; while hs played in front of the house, she slept in the little back kitchen. Two gentleman, noted for their fondness of exaggeration, were Recently discussing the fare at different hoteh. One observed, that at his hotel he had tea so strong it was necessary to confine it in an iron vessel. "At mine," said the other "it is so weak that it has not strength to run out of the teapot."

As an instance of the precocity of the young colonial, we may mention an instance which came under our own observation a day or two ago. Two children a boy, and a girl, the one about eight years, and the other about six years of age, were walking along the pathway — the little girl in possession of a sixpence. The boy proposed a toss — " sudden death" — to which the little lass acceded. The coin was skied by the girl. " Head !" cried the boy. It was a head, and the coin was handed over without a murmur. — •' Oamaru Times."

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