Horseshoe Bend.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 892, 27 March 1877, Page 3

Horseshoe Bend.

♦■ ■--■..- (Prom our own Correspondent.) , Xiawrence people will have to wait till , the 2nd proximo for the opening of the rail- | way, always presuming that tbe Government does not make April fools of them. \xx the * mean whjle they appear to have been bent ' yjpqu amusement. What with tbe races, the ' St. Patrick's sports, aud to crown the lot, tbe ' opening of the long expected and finally obtained railway, I sbould think that part of the population of Lawrence addicted to excitement, will have had an opportunity of indulging their tastes to their heart's eon- • tfnt- This is the more to be wondered at, as, - if rumor is to be believed, both scarlet ferer \ aud measles are at present in that town. ; Mr Kitchiug is going to build j-, new hotel f at tbe Beaumont bridge : which, they say, is j going to monopolise all tbe trade in that quarter. Mr Lancaster, by what I cau learn, < js going to sell qu*; aud leave tbe district. It * looks very much as if be were disgusted at ■ his defeat at the last County Election, when he stood against Mr Benuett. Tbe elec^y*. " however, showed too niucb $euse to be deluded by hia promises, which I am afrajd *iyere but as smoke. . The threshers have oommenced their work i iv ov»r pe^ghborhood, but I api afraid the I yield will not be quite so satisfactory as was I expected. With the prices as they are at tbe ' present moment, however, I sbould think the ■ farmers ought to make a good thing of it this I year should the- yield be even below the j ttver.age. The late floods appear to have dftne considerable damage to sqme of the joiners' j races her£— ahou,} so much so indeed that ( several parties have since been engaged iri , repairing their lasses. The dredges at Moa | ■ Fiat are «not doing so badly. They ought to 1 get a good deal of gold to make, their work; * pay, considering the he&Yy expenses they ' .h.^re tft ffle^t. „Ag an example of. what their ' machinery must cost them r i will only one item -four iron* buckets cost them hr :< I>uu>clin rsQfi jiiipiis the- cost of transport to M pa Flat, and after two months work; they ! had to undergo a thorough repair. If every ' other-part" of* < the- machinery is equally ex- \ pensive, it will require a considerable amount .1 6f gold to refund the expenses, let alone i profit; and, still it must evidently -pay, as j both ,dredges/are, i w,orkioe*-.day and night. « '' - '" ■=!■'■■■'.'" "./":'- • { ■-■)