TINKERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 366, 20 June 1874, Page 3

TINKERS.

(From a Correspondent.) June 13th. Winter has set in here at last. After a long period of dry weather, we are now getting hard frost. Oar mountains are capped with snow, promising an abundant supply of the liquid element for the coming season. Most of our mining claims are busy at work. The water race of the Messrs. Murphey, from the head of Chatto Creek to Tinkers, is now finished, and the proprietors are about to commence sluicing, when there is every prospect of their being rewarded for their labor, and richly they deserve it, as they are a company of the hardest working and most persevering men in the district. Quite an excitement was caused here on the 9th inst. by the mysterious disappearance of • child of Mr. John Martin's, of Tinkers. The little fellow, who is about two and a half yean eld, wandered away about noon on the 9th ; and although every search was made for him by the inhabitants during that and the next day, no trace could be found of him until 2 p.m. of the 10th, when he arrived at the house of Mr. Frank M'Cluskey, of Devonshires, having travelled in a straight line up--vards of four miles from his home, and being out all night in very inclement weather. The little wanderer's wants were quickly and kindly attended to by Mrs. M'Cluskey, and he appears to have suffered but little by his travels. The inhabitants of Tinkers deserve great credit for the hearty manner in which they turned out to search for the lost child. We are grumbling very much in this locality at our Court being postponed from the 9th inst. to the 7th July, a proceeding which will necessitate tv to remain another month before we can get our mining business transacted. I believe it is through no fault of our worthy Warden, as he had to proceed to the Cardrona on the Court day ; but still the fact remains that we are nut to considerable trouble and expense by the adjournment of the Court. I am informed that a requisition is about to be started to "request our late medical practitioner (Dr. Niven) to return to this district, as we are sadly in want of a medical man in this place, there being none to be had nearer than Clyde, a distance of 20 miles. A good number of the residents begin to find out that the worthy doctor it sadly missed now that he hat left v.