HASTINGS (TAPU CREEK).

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2149, 16 September 1875, Page 3

HASTINGS (TAPU CREEK).

(fbom oub own cobbespondent.)

September 14, Last night, Mr McLiver showed me some nice gold which ho had taken out of the Bullion yesterday. Tho leader is now about three fee( wide, the show of gold increasing in proportion. Meantime there is a large flow of water, which keeps.the workmen thoroughly drenched. It is now more than four years since the last gold was taken from that locality, but to me tho" warty," raspberry look of tho old Full Moon gold is quite familiar,- and as some doubt was entertained by certain parties as to whether it really was tho Full Moon leader that was cut, I have no hesitation .in staling that it is. It is quite possible that iu a few days tho manager will drop across some of the " strawberry " gold, which is enormously rich. It is now about fifo years since I saw any of that sort, a kind of gold which I bcliove is confined to that particular leader. Now, Mr Editor, I hopo that you do not think 1 am beginning to " blow," like your Tairua correspondent, for my certie, he can blow with a vengeance, and I sincerely hope that ho will be able to blow of many good crushing returns in future. It will certainly not be his fault if people do not speculate in that locality. With the exception of "Abolition gas," I do pot think that you Grahamstown editors do much in tho puffing lino. It is not so, apparently, with your brother editors in London, and I oncloso an article from The ■ World, headed, " City Editors and tho Erie Shares," which is well worth copying. 'In last Wednesday's paper, in a report headed " Quarterly Licensing Meeting," it appears as if Combes and Daldy wrolo •the following statement: That at prosent a decent bed nor a meal could not be obtained at the so-called hotels at Tapu," &c. I do not believe for amomest that Messrs Combes and Daldy ever wrote such silly trash, as the very wording of it plainly shows the animus of the writer. However, the unsuccessful applicant is not at all to blame in tho matter,

as he is not one of thoso who meddles with his neighbours/ Wo shall probably havo another storm to-morrow, as yesterday evening between seven and eight o'clock thero was a very largo_ ring' round tho moon, an almost certain symptom of rough weather, and any timo now wo way expect the equinoctial gales.