Ohinemuri.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2121, 21 October 1875, Page 2

Ohinemuri.

Per Pigeon Express.

/ (FROM i. COHKESPONDENT.)

MACKAYTOWN.

This day, 12.50.

The extreme modesty of your contemporary the Thames Advertiser in advocating the expenditure of the whole of goldfields road vote £10,000 in making a road from Puriri to Tairua is very much admired here. It is not known, but it is thought that the proprietors of that journal must have a large interest in that goldfield. Their advocacy, however, will have little effect upon Sir George Grey, as he has already giren a distinct pledge that a road will be made to Waite-. kauri over which machinery, in waiting for that district, can be conveyed. It 13 to be hoped that you will push the matter on, and keep it constantly before the eyes of the authorities. lam informed that Mr McLaren is authorised to report on a road to that district. No time should be lost now that the fine weather has set in. In commencing operations a sum of £1000 (the tenth part of the amount wanted by the Thames Advertiser /or Tairua) would satisfy us here just now. Ten new claims have been pegged out at Waitekauri during the past fortnight, and in several of them good geld is visfble. Mr Edward Cameron has gone to Waitekauri to secure a site for machinery. From the Karangahake also you may expect to hear shortly of good things. Mr Puckey is here to settle the dispute about the Trig Station at Waihi. The JN atives will be in to-day, and the matter will be settled quietly, they being simply under a misapprehension regarding the nature of these landmarks. / There was no foundation in the report that Mr Ccck carried a pistol about him to shoot Te llira.

Great complaints arc constantly being heard of the irregularity of the postal arrangements, and it is stated that frequently three of our daily mails leave Paeroa at the same time, although a steamer leaves for Grahamstown daily.

Astna Dickinson describes the society bow, as executed by Wellington ladies. She says that to bend the head, except to acknowledge superiors, is out of fashion. The lady looks you coolly in the face, smiles as sweetly as she can, and gently inclines her head towards the right shoulder, with a little backward movement at the same time. A slight French shrug heightens tho effect.— Poet.