BLUE SPUR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 5

BLUE SPUR.

(Krom our Mining Correspondent.)

Our quirtz reef still looks promising. The prospect' n have cut down about 8 feet in *-he fitone and intend to send a few tons to the Waiuori reef for trial, which, if payable, will eausi the reef to get a good prospeHinoj We: wore rather amused by the let-, ter of 'Samaritan" in your last Have, callinir for subscriptions in aid of the Rip and Tear Co., to replace the fluning blown down by t ! ie late lialc. With all respect to " Samaritan's *' generosity, he seems to be ignorant of the fact that the -above Co. are- only at the loss of third part of the expense, their co-partners beinuf th ; Otau;o and the Nelson Companies. Had two or three acres of cement been blown away with the fluming there would have been a little. show for -commisseration. and even then a party of strong ablebodied men, backed ' y a wood claim, receiving public assistance to wo**k it. ia simply ridiculous, and in f ct, would "be taken as an insulh I;' it was not evident that "Samaritan " knows nothing about the Spur or its people, I ' would tuizgeat Hie next best thing to do is just to invest his j two. guineas in Black Horse, address, j Rip and Tear C)., Blue. Spur, when no' doubt " Samaritan " ; and mutes health will be duly honored.

We have been very busy- the last week-on-the Sjnir ajjenitn^our Chrintuiaa hoMdaye,~and repairing the damage Hone by the late {rale. The, Tuapeka Water Co; have «rot their flumin^ to rights a^ain. . The Great Amalgamated Co. have started to eroct their fluminu ;n; n the same place «a formerly. It is intended to stay it well with wire ropeß V con^iderahlß. quantity of the old timber will be made use of asjain, and as* the party are goiny; into it with a will, they exp? c" to hwe it all right again in about a. fortnight.

The Oauo fr. M. Co., 'and Morrison and Co. have finished washing up ; thY former Co. after about (twelve montVp ruimins;. which no doubt will "consider, ablt? increase the espQrt. We have just -got ' ovof' .whar fchreatefied to he- a Supreme Court; case, : l »( i jw-teen the Nelson Co. aHcl.the q B^ i i--' itisliTALUjeHcari Co. h'eard 'before ' JjQdirf , 53-Tity. THe" BiitißH,,^'mefiV'an/ C 0... 'Vy that: thij -Tfels'on ' wpre ' falcJfl!? liberties with their ' "froum!", [sujd'tbem for £1500 da^na^e^.*, As netfVer party ts"»qfld reaufne wor|?^o-. Wa refs tlie 'hourfd'ary ; without injiirin-^ i'th ' ,othdr, the conaequenee was*, ft j ! ile; id. lock' in both t-laims. The ,oa«e was brongSfc-' before Judjje,-&VAxi.' an<l, as usual in Blue Spur nvnutg disfctjtei 1 , the judsie advised ' a sctuemffnt oufcside, wiifch resulrei in' t'le Nelson Co_. pu/chafting the British American fop £1000 — a good riddance. as that claim, owing to the- awkward position whiph it occupies, catting as it does across the Spur, has been the cause of morp litigation than thrice its

Value,.. It ha» al«* proved .that, the cheapest ( ,if^os the only solutjqn to tbe } boundary question is, .for one or other .to purchase. The. dispute between, Casey, brothers £#h&. morrison and Co. -remains' unsettled owing to the plaintiffs being rather excessive in their . valuation . smce- : the reversion of the "Warden's decision by Judge Gray. ■ '