Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1997, 29 May 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

(PBOM A. COBBESPONDENT.)

May 27th.

The weather hero has been something frightful, especially the past three days, during which trees were uprooted and blown down, and tents were levelled, the latter circumstance not conducing to the comfort of the occupants. I have not travelled much lately, as you may have guessed; consequently I had nothing to send unless I had drawn upon my imagination. There was no change in the Prospectors' the last time I was there, tho low-level tunnel being in very hard country still, with no indications of a change.

A man named Foley arrived here from Tauranga yesterday, and he speaks favorably of the road. He had, a narrow escape from being killed, a tr«e having fallen very near to his teal. He pegged off some ground near to Garland's claim, and expresses hopes of getting something good out of that locality. He sent up a man—from Puriri, I believe —to man his interest. There is no doubt about go^ being distributed over the ground out there, but it is impossible to say what it will turn out to be. A half-caste has pegged out a claim out there —said to be something good, and I have heard that a number of Maories were going out to take up ground. The sooner the better for the storekeepers, who are pretty well done up, and would like to see an influx of diggers. Talking of storekeeping, most people seem to imagine it is a profitable game, but it is not so here. There are eight stores at Measletown, and there are not" fifty people all round within cooey. One young fellow—a new chum—is showing the old identities a lesson. He commenced on a very small scale, but by dint of push and buying part of the stock-in-trade of a storekeeper who was about full up of Tairua, at wholesale town prices, he has been doing a stroke. He saved freight and packing by this piece of business, so he can afford to-sell cheaper than some of the others. ■ Messrs Eennan and Hollis are up herd surveying the Ajax license. Several surveyors have representatives here, amongst them Messrs Wright and Bayldon, who have a large sign up announcing their name and calling. ......

People are now beginning' to wish the law business was all over, so that work might be started as soon as ever there is a favorable change in the weather. Puriri is rapidly coming into notice. There are 10 or 12 parties of prospectors out, who may soon come on something good. The road party under Mr McNeal are making good progress considering the bad weather they hare had to contend with.