LAWRENCE

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 24 January 1872, Page 6

LAWRENCE

(From our own correspondent.) 20th January, 1872,

...I have nothing new or interesting to record in this communication, but an increasing disposition on the part of our miners to become the holders, of quartz claims. It has now become fashionable, and a considerable breadth of country in the supposed line of reef is already taken up with capital from one to eight thousand pounds. As yet, .however, nothing of any consequence has been done to test the richness of the various claims.

. The owners of booths for the races are now in motion constructing their various edifices. The prices realised for sale of same were as follows :— Grand stand, Chalmers, L3l 10s ; No.-j, MF/poghill, L 25; No.. 2, Tanton, Xl 2 ; three refreslinient stalls, 10s each. .'; ., . _: The weather is extremely hot, and although .we^have had a few slight showers, still noth- _-, ing equal to our wants. Creeks that formerly, used to have water all summer /are now perfectly? dry, and water even for the wants of .cattle and domestic purposes is getting scarce. The races alone are the means of making us /look anything. lilce our former selves, but ■when they shall become a thing of the past I do not know what next to give us hope. ,1. have no doubt something will turn up. to , change the current of our gloomy thoughts. ? ■ From private sources I Hear, .that further, ./reefs will be disco vered and applied for within ; Jfche Tuapeka district. .'..". v ; ;.-' Z' :: ''}\.\ ""'"\ .H.ar>esting c .is abou^ comiig,' = but,' 'alas { J "for the Husbandman. . , i