SHANTY KEEPING ON THE DEEP STREAM.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 150, 22 December 1870, Page 6

SHANTY KEEPING ON THE DEEP STREAM.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — It might be interesting to some of your readers to know what 'i* going on in this remote corner of the^ province. There are about thirty miners here, all of whom are doing pretty well. As you might guess> -we have a grog shanty in our midst. Our life is a very quiet one, although now and again we do get up a fight to relieve the monotony. Any stranger that visits us we shout for and treat with the greatest kindness. We pass the most of our spare time playing cards and drinking. If we are dilatory in our visits to the shanty, we are administered to with the bottle at our own huts, just, as it is said, for friendship sake. If this will not induce us to turn out, another dodge is attempted — a raffle is got up and all our names obtained to it, and if we do not turn out on the occasion, we are looked upon as mean scrubbers. Many other dodges are resorted to to drive a false trade. If any of your readers should pay us a visit, we can show them beauty unadorned, sui-passing by far the adorned beauty of the Waipori maids. Our damsels are of a masculiue disposition, and can ride a horse straddlelegs, and punch a fellow's head if he annoys them. We have no fear of police in this quarter, and we are a law unto ourselves. These are a few of the leading characterists of the population of the Deep Stream diggings, which I leave you to publish or not as you think proper. — I am, &c, I^ed,