DRYBREAD.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 32, 10 September 1869, Page 3

DRYBREAD.

(From our own Correspondent.) We are going to have a large race from the Manuherikia to this place (that is if your Dmistan Creek correspondent will let us). His modesty is wonderful. Cannot we wait until they have worked out at the Dunstan Creek, and then we can have the water! Would it not be as well to leave them the ground P They are getting the benefit now of a good many heads which they do not pay for, and yet they would ask the Government to refuse out* money until they can make up their, mind whether they also will ask for a gift of the Manuherikia. It is an old saying:— u The more people get it only increases the appetite for asking." Your Dunstan Creek correspondent would like us, if we do get the grant, to lift it below Muddy Creek. X thiiik we would be rather muddy to do so, it would look so very foolish to cut a race 40 miles to bring in I think it will be best for him to stick to his new hobby temperance, and leave Mr. Warden Robinson to decide as to who will pr will not get the water. I think their objections will need some better foundations than his muddy ideas. . I believe that Blacks people are about to make a start to bring up their •channel. It will do some good, but T doubt not to the amount it will cost. The storekeepers' friends, the " skedaddlers," or as they are termed at the Dunstan Creek the " Terries," though they may elude the storekeepers for a time, there is an old detective sure to come up with tbem. lie laid his cold hand on one of them rather suddenly at Mr. Beck's White Horse Hotel last Saturday ; so. if they do not pay others, he will not be put off, and then what good does their " sloping " do them.