MOSGIEL.

Evening Star, Issue 3912, 7 September 1875, Page 2

MOSGIEL.

{From our own Correspondent.) Mosgiel, September 6. The past week will he long remembered as a point of departure with both old and young Taierians. The opening of the railway is now the topic of the day. Besides the pecuniary advantages derived from the manner of transit, &c., it will - assist our Provincial ideas to expand, form, develop, -uid foster a national feeling. From the bustle and excitement at the passenger train on Saturday the importance of the place is apparent, and the fact of the inadequate station accommodation will soon be felt.

Dr Inglis has had bis farm of eighty acres surveyed into allotments for building and garden purposes. This is contiguous to the railway and main road, and will Lie placed in the market shortly for disposal. . The late floods have severely damaged the retaining dry stone walls that were erected to secure the wooden bridge across the Silverstream, and the posis and scrub that were lixed are washed away ; otherwise the damage done is nominal.

Sunday observances have been totally ignored here lately by the railway contigetors. Laboring men have been discharged Irom the works because they would not work on that day. The Good Templars are enlisting fresh recruits lure, and at Uiccartnn are causing uneasiness to the publicans. Although we are situated in the centre of the J aieri Plain it is seldom that butter can bo purchased at the stores here, the Dunedin bagmen trapping it previous to its being churned.