MOSGIEL.

Evening Star, Issue 3821, 24 May 1875, Page 3

MOSGIEL.

{From our own Correspondent.)

May 24. “Tliis district is one of vast importance,” so said the Governor after viewing it; hut somehow the Government lags dreadfully in giving us the machinery under their control to develope our resources. For instance, with a population of over 5,000 souls, they have not a piece of land whereon to erect a building ; and the only Government Office in the Taieri district is the East Taieri Stalionhouse on the Railway reserve, near Mosgiel. The Taieri people are talking about having a grammar school of their own—a highly necessary edifice ; but clearly it is the duty of the Government to build it, I have heard repeatedly that we were to be favored with a money order and savings bank, a Courthouse and police building, and other requirements ; but they appear not. The want of such offices retards the advancement of the place. > On Monday last the Silver Stream oven an its banks, but not to the extent a correspondent in one of your contemporaries made out. The damage done to its banka are undergoing repair. At the factory Mr Wedderspoon is excavating a place for the gasometer. He has a sea of water to contend against, and has to bring force and centrifrugal pumps, &c,, to bear upon it.

On Friday the neighboring farmers turned out and gave Mr J. M‘Mil!an, a new incoming tenant of Mr Donald Reid, North Taieri, a day’s ploughing. Some twenty-seven ploughs were on the ground, and did good work. To-morrow a similar display of good feeling will teke place on Mr Norman Campbell’s, who lately suffered from fire.