TEVIOT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 546, 4 October 1872, Page 2

TEVIOT.

The river being up to its usual summer level, and a'l the claims knocked off working, I have leisure enough to attempt rehearsing some of the news items which help to keep our worthy gossips bn-y. I have not much to tell, for everything is very dull—no public meetings, or quarrels oc curving to relievo the monotony of our quiet neighbourhood. In truth, the interests of this district have been so recklessly sacrificed by the Provincial Government, that people have little heart to do anything but accumulate funds for a start to the Roper. The land sharks are still busy, Clarke’s manager having applied for the remainder of the Moa Flat block under the Agricultural Lease system. 1 observe the application has not been advertised, and shall anxiously watch whether this breach of the Regulations will be condoned by the Warden or not. Except on the Ovens Hills Station, there is not now a single acre of , Agricultural land in the district that has SMB thrfawu open for Settlement. news is scarce. The dredge Perwork near the ferry, and is said to be paying a pound a day per man. One of our most prominent storekepers and Magistrates committed the rash act of matrimony this week. His return with his hlnming bride was d'ly celebrated by energetic tin-kettling, when the liberal and I happy bridegroom magnanimously shouted a case of champagne cider. 1 believe the Hew Church of England is to boopened in three weeks time in great state. To my mind this building is for too ornate for a Christian place of worships, suggest ing Popish, or at any rate, Ritualistic leanings. * The farmers are well advanced in their soring labors. The winter sown wheat looks | remarkably well.