BLUE SPUR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 219, 11 April 1872, Page 7

BLUE SPUR.

(From our Mining Correspondent. )

The rainfall last week proved very welcome to both the water race and claim shareholders, who have been rather despondent at the prospect of continued dry weather, and consequently small dividends. As the weather has at last broke, we have no fears of any further scarcity of water this season.

On the Munros side of the Spur all the claims are in full work. On Gabriels side the Great Extended Co. are washing down and driving. The Otago Co. are also driving in their No. 1 claim. The Great Amalgamated Co. have succeeded in reducing their company to six shareholders, instead of nine, as formerly, and are driving for a blast.

The prospectors on the Gabriels Beef have struck the reef in their main drive, some ten feet below the level of the shaft. They have cut through it, and the prospects are quite as good as above, if not better. With the exception of Clayton and Co., who are still driving for the reef, all further prospecting on the line has been abandoned. Our moneyed men appear to take a deal of trouble to go to the Devil -or rather Devils Creek, to invest their money, when it might be done just as profitably at home, and with equally as good a prospect of ultimate success.

It is seldom we have anything more amusing on the Spur "than a lecture or an occasional tea-fight ; but on • Thursday evening we had a thorough treat from the Lawrence Christy Minstrels, being a performance in aid of the funds of the Tuapeka Hospital. They were well patronised, and every one enjoyed the entertainment provided to the utmost. The performers acquitted themselves most creditably.

We were rather surprised last Saturday afternoon by the approach of a large cavalcade of equestrians and carriages to the Spur. It was hastily surmised that it could be no less a personage than the Governor ; but as it neared, it proved to be the return of one of our raceholders from a matrimonial cruise to Victoria, accompanied by his bride, and escorted by a large number of his friends, who had gone to Waitahuna to meet them. In the evening a sp'endid selection of music, in honour of the occasion, was performed on " Devoe's nuisical instruments." With the exception of a little grumbling on the part of the spinsters, who could'nt see the fun of going abroad for what could be got at home, everything passed off just as well as if had been the Governor.