AN IMAGINATIVE CORRESPONDENT.

Kumara Times, Issue 2663, 2 April 1885, Page 3

AN IMAGINATIVE CORRESPONDENT.

The Town and Country Journal is a “ real live paper,” at least those who conduct it would not he likely to smile benignly on any one who said it is not. Its ambition to outstrip its contemporaries in enterprise, and liveliness, so to speak, is like a quenchless fire, and it would appear to have correspondents scattered all over the face of the earth. It is a pity that they are not always reliable. Their representative in Westland modestly prefaces his communication thus :—“ Seeing you publish items of interest concerning other colonies, I venture to give you an account of this place.” And then he tells them that Westland consisted of two principal towns—Grey mouth and Hokitika—with a population of 7000 and 4500 respectively. That’s a very good beginning. He then gravely informs his readers that Kumara is the centre of this gold and coal-mining district. There is plenty of gold-bearing country at Kumara, but the difficulty is to get there, or find capitalists to support people to get there. The bush is very dense and the country very rough and uneven, Greymouth, according to this highly imaginative correspondent, must be a roaring place, a real hive of industry, as we are informed that “ millions of tons [coal] are annually exported.” In another paragraph of this entertaining letter we are informed that at the banquet given in the Brunner coal mine “ various speeches and songs were given.” It is a pity that he did nob tell us who distinguished themselves in that harmonious manner while he was about it. Truly the “Journal” is a live paper, and has some very lively correspondents.—Grey River Argus.