Horseshoe Bend.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 893, 30 March 1877, Page 6

Horseshoe Bend.

» (From our own Correspondent.) March 26. At a public sale on Thursday, the 22nd inst., one-third of a share in the Woodhouse Claim was disposed of for £23. The attendance was but limited, owing, I suppose, to its being the Dunedin race day. The share had become Government property, the formerowner having died intestate, and leaving no relations behind. As the sale was put off for a very long time, and the other partners in the claim have been working all the while at the race, a wages-man has to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale, and thus I believe but very little will be left for tbe creditors in the estate. Mr James Stevenson, an old settler iv the Bend, was the buyer. Mr Guthrie, of Ettrick School, bad a visit from the Inspector of Schools on Tuesday, the 20th ins*, and the inspection passed off highly satisfactorily to all concerned. It could hardly do otherwise, seeing that Mr Gutbrie, in the short time be has been there, has had to undo what his predecessors bad done, before he could commence to build up the structure of education afresh on a proper basis ; a task which only those who have had to do it themselves can fully appreciate. The light-fingered gentry of Dunedjn have played a nice trick upon a much-respected lady of this neighbourhood during the race time. Mrs Patrick, of the Spylaw Hotel, had gone to Dunedin to see the races. On Wednesday evening she went to the theatre, whence she returned minus a small bag containing about £40. Whether the said bag was lost or stolen is, as it appears, not known; the latter, however, appears to me the most probable. This small affair only gives us upj country people rather a sharp lesson to look, <

out and when we go to Dunedituiot to encumber ourselves with any superfluous cash when visiting any of the resorts of public amusement. The Lawrence correspondent of tbe ' Otago Witness' appears to be very indignant at the Government being so very dilatory with' regard to the opening of tht railway; but did that gentleman kuow the Government to be ever any other way in any matter where the goldfields were concerned ? It is to be hoped, for the good of the public in geueral, in this quarter at least, that this time, for once, the Government will not make a fool of tbe Lawrence people, and will open the railway for passenger traffic on or about the 2ud of April. It would then be worth your while to take a trip up this way and have a look at our mountain home. I am afraid, however, you would not be very much charmed with it, unless you are an ardent admirer of mountain scenery, and in that case there are spots here very well worth the trouble of visiting them. The really picturesque part of the country commences ouly beyond tbe Beaumont. Tn a former letter I took occasion to mention a floral nuisance. lam afraid there is a more dangerous one in store for the runholders and farmers hereabout, belonging to the animal kingdom, in tbe shape of rabbits. They begin to show themselves here in rather formidable numbers.