LAWRENCEE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESSPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 13

LAWRENCEE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESSPONDENT.)

- ,Thelong-talked.-of land sale .brought ..a^pumber of strangers to Lawtence-men of the right stamp, it ' appearance be any criterion— eager and hopeful-looking enterinc the.Courthouse.wHere ttiesale^as conducted but sadly crestfallen' leaving' it, muttering ampre^ca ■ tions ' on the- Land' Act,' its' franlers and- admimstral • tors. .The' choicest, portions of Eun 106 have, it i ) , alleged, reverted to i its ( .former, holders., , -There worj ! but four, bom, fide, selectors, ; Among ,the dteappointe* ' applicants . for homes were the pioneera of the gqid v fields-men who have b&rHe tM-burtieb and'heat o ' the day, 1 'who' • have ' nelped' .to 1 'matte Tuapeka what i < 7 ls: ! > Now ihithe evening! of life 1 they xjanno); secure i . > few aorea of .land without (Competing,with capitalists i There must) be something radically,, wrong, in, lain ' Jaws that thus oppose instead, of encouraging settle ' ' ' The same 'remark applies to the auriferous land, o which large quantities have drifted into the handi o tho few. ■' Take, for one instance Hales andHinde's .famous claim tit as now lying, idle, thoudecreasin* yield being ,too (insignificant for its mjllipnah'e owners ; yet it would afford a good living for man^ years to 20 families, more or less. Can such a statif of things continue 1 Oh for the good bid Victorian '■tim'eß,' when' "jumping" was in vogue, and sucli ■ "dog-in-the-manger" business • would not be tola; i rated. The Blue Spur is.fass becoming deserted. , The 'cosy little cottages, wjth their pretty gardens .and substantial .outbuildings,- which hay ( p been tho home| ", of' industrious' miners for so many years, are closed ' ' u'p','their whilom occupants scattered in search of 'the ' employment which" is withheld from them' at home/at ' the capriceof a few monopolists. > . ' j The Tuapeka Prospecting, Association, in, their . gearch for new fields,,Bhould not, lose sight of those i' already discovered. They should sco, ,that the goldj- ' fieldsregulations are rigidly enforced as regards' the ■''number of men .employed by' the holders of mining "'leases'.'- 'By so doing- they will forwaid' the best inte- . r tests of the community. ■ .' . " ' ' . <> \ „' ■ , The,, harvest is magnificent. • Tho beaming faces of the farmers and their better halves are good to seo. I am afraid to Bay now many thousand tons "of gra'fa "Tuapeka West; will send to the ,railway-station th\s ' 'eeasoh, Wat I should be accused of exaggeration.' Hop ■ "the carting is to be done owing to the want of a good ••■toad is'the trouble ;-but it has passedinto a proyeri) r thatjft farmer's sum, of happiness is not. complete without a •grievance, and the state, of the roadj is ', hippU'y' the only grievance the farmers of Tuapeba ." 'West have' ttii'syean" ," ,; '"' ' I" '„ i, '' r ''A ( harveßt ! hoir(e at 1 Tuapeka 1 Flat; an Odd-Fellowß' '' ball bt the ' Blue Spur> a service of song in Lawrence ■ —all in' one week,' and all well attended. ,, Truly, vfe i are a prosperous and.ti sociable community. ; ,,i • ,\ j