CAMBRIANS. MINING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2410, 10 May 1900, Page 31

CAMBRIANS. MINING.

May 6. — Hughes and Morgan, Vinegar Hill, have washed-up for the year, and so far as I can learn the returns are as good as ever.

Mr Ewing has washed rip both his claims on Vinegar Flat. I have been told that the top one paid him, but the lower one did quite the reverse. However, it must be borne in mind that the lattei has not had a fair trial, and Mr Ewing intends next to open a cut right acioss the flat. Whatever that part of this claim may do, the top part will no doubt pay him.

\Vater being plentiful, Mr Ewing has commenced operations at his Vinegar Hill claim.

School.— The annual meeting of householders for the election of seven member to form the committee for the ensuing year was held in the school, when the following candidates weie elected — viz., Messrs Harrex, Jones, Thuriow, Haig, M'Gucken, Owens, and Hughes. That much indignation is shown by . parents at so many being on the committee who have no children attending school is no business of mine, but if parents who have children attending school wish fathers of children to be on the committee, they should see that their wishes are carried out by going on election night and voting for them personally. It matters not to ths writer of these notes who is on the committee, but I think on school 'committees as well as on any other committee) ,' it is advisable to piit the very best men and men who have had some insight into school matters ; but to complain when the thing is over is useless. Now, I cannot pass over this subject without a word of praise to the late chairman, whose sterling worth cannot be overestimated. This he proved beyond a doubt by the interest he took in the school and its surroundings. Parents will be pleased to hear that Mr Allen, the new teacher, has taken time by the forelock, and has given instructions that the sanitary state of the, outhouses must in future be better attended to.

Wedding Bells. — We had a very pleasant wedding here on April 25, the contracting parties being Mr Thomas M'Math, of Alexandra, and Miss Katherine Beattie, daughter of Mr and Mrs Beattie, proprietors of the Welsh Harp Hotel and the Downs farm. I need not go into particulars of the affair, as no doubt "Emmeline" will have received an accoiuit of the ceremony foi her pages.