SWITZERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 262, 6 February 1873, Page 6

SWITZERS.

(From our own Correspondent.) '. A new rush has set in on Murphy's Hill, adjoining the now famous 50acre section, and at the rear of Wilkie and Co.'s extended claim. The first shaft sunk was bottomed at 130 feet, but as there was a great amount of water to contend with, the prospectors, Radford and party, decided on driving a tunnel, and at the end of 300 feet they got some fair prospects, at least sufficient to induce them to persevere, and the result fully justified their expectations. The prospects, I am informed on good authority, would run about ten ounces to the load; but as the present tunnel is not deep enough by six feet, they are engaged in driving an incline tunnel, which they purpose working by horse and wire rope, so it will be some time before the paying capabilities of the hill are properly tested. In the meantime other shafts are being sunk, the depth being reckoned to vary from 60 to 130 feet, and the locality presents what for some time past has been alnost unknown on Switzers, viz., the activity of a new rush. For the information of " Local Miner" I may state what I believe has detained Messrs. Maitland and Shepherd, the commissioners appointed to enquire into the alleged illegal sale of 50 acres of auriferous land on this goldfiold. Some evidence was given by J. C. Brown, Esq., M.H.R., and others, before the Goldfields Committee last session, which it is necessary the commissioners should be possessed of before commencing the inquiry, and the aforesaid evidence was not out of the printer's hands in Wellington on the 23rd inst.; also Mr. Wai-den Wood is absent at the Orepuki, and not likely to return for ten days, and as his evidence will be very material iv tho case, I presume the inquiry cannot well commence before the middle of the month. Messrs. Maitland and Shepherd have also been appointed by the Goldfields Secretary to inquire into and report upon the advisability of proclaiming portions of the runs abutting on the Waik&ka into "a gold field. The annual school meeting was held on the 13th instant. The business was of the usual routine character. The fund for meeting incidental expenses was stated to be in a healthy condition, and the committee of management for the next twelve months was duly elected. The rainfall, which has continued almost uninterruptedly for the past fortnight, though rather too -late to be of much utility to the crops, has given us a copious supply of the needful clement for sluicing purposes. All the ditches are running full, and there is slight probability of a scarcity of water until broken weather, the precursor of winter, sets in. "We do not expect that the Superintendent and Mr. Bastings \v.ill visit Switzers on this occasion.

The correct thing now-a-days for lady promenaders is to carry one arm bent at the elbotf, the hand sticking straight forward, and allowing it to bob up and down like a dislocated pumphandle. ,r, r A man who had a red-headed sweetheart addressed her As "Sweet Auburn, loveliest of the plain. In a few seconds he found that a chair was considerably harder than his heads