NOTES FROM NOBLES.

Grey River Argus, 29 September 1903, Page 4

NOTES FROM NOBLES.

— (o) (Our Correspondent). The long looked for rain has come at last, filling the honsewives' water tanks and thw dams of the ground Bluicerß. Individual mining is almost a thing of the past, and were it not for the dredging claims in the Mosquito Creek we would be literally "Goldsmith's Deserted Yillage." The Mosquito No 1 .and 2 are satis« faetorily pursuing the even tenor of their way— no floods to delay their working or silted«np paddocks to be cleared out. Both di edges are splendidly lighted. No 1 is usiag the acetylene gas, and No 2 the electric light. It would be difficult to decide which is the better light. The No 2 put up, I think, a record in repairing a break. One of the .hangers and cross bars of the ladder broke on Friday night. It was sent to the foundry ut Greymoafcb, repaired, brought back and thediedge started at its usual hour on Sunday nighf. The bridge at the crossing of the Waipuna Creek on the road to the Mosquito is completed and is a greao boou to those having business >'<ere. The contractor, Mr -Donnell, has turned out a splendid piece of work. The bridge is built solely of silver pine,. not, a piece of sap wood to be seen in the whale structure. The approaches can le negotiated with safety in the dark" est night. Mr Higginp, the County JSngiueer, paid us a visit a few days since, and is deserving of credit for "the good 'condition in which everything under his charge is in at present. At times we have to flounder over a bit of bad road, the County Engineer not caring to waste money in patching what ultimately will have to be done in a permanent manner — a wise policy. Since writing my last notes a native of this village, Miss Constance Haigh, has been joined in the bonds of holy v matrimony to Mr Sexton, a resident of Greymeutk. Her father (Mr Haigh) is aa old veteran of the Indian Mutiny, having been with Outram at the Relief of Lucknow, themselves to be shut in and afterwards to hear that inspiriting cry, "Dinna ye hear it? Dinna ye hear?" In connectioa with the wedding a socialwaß held ef a very pleasing character. Your correspondent got an invitation to a social at the Blackwater during the winter months, one of the attractions poiuted out being "two fiires." Here it was different. Not being able .to attend, I enquiied •ef some young ladies who were there,

and tva«f{3weafcly told they had two suppers. Two suppers ! Think of it ! My pan fails me !