WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 203, 21 December 1871, Page 6

WAITAHUNA.

(From our. Own Correspondent.)

"Water for sluicing purposes hat. become so scarce, that many of our ai'e'in consequence not working more than half-time.

L Ouc school will be closed for Jhe holidays, without the usual yearly examination of the pupils, and distribution of prizes taking place. Cause unknown. ' -

On the subject of the Junction Beef, as it appears to have been christened, little can be. said in ad-

dition to what has already appeared in youc columns— rpnly that a prospectting claim has been applied fqr by Hanseu and party, and granted. There was a repqrt current bore on •Friday last that a quartz reef had been

discovered in a gully situate about a mile from Mr. Dewe's farm, on ihe road to the Canada reef. I have since heard that two claims havq tjeeu

marked off-rone bejng a prqspeeting, the other, a ten acre lease — the two iQ£etheH embracing nearly half % mile p^fchto reefs nuppqsed cqurap. Cinstabta Daley has, much tq the regret of tiie respectable arv«J pe^qqdisposed portion bf the conjmupitjy been removed to th,e! Teviot. ' IJe |i^B ' beep stationed l)e,re for. about times years— and during that time, be has managed to. gain the esteem of the sToaideutß5 T oaideutB by the. zeabus and efficient fanner in whicfy ]ie- has pecfoc^ed ihja r ma^y;4^ties.^pertainjng hjs

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