TEVIOT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 14 March 1868, Page 3

TEVIOT.

(From our Own Correspondent.)

stoclT style with '* This leaves me well, hoping you are the same," &c, in such a quiet place as this, it is difficult to begin at all. Several questions, in suspension at present, have some local interest. Those interested in the school are wondering where that building is to be situated; those interested in the post office where it •will go ; and those^terested in the minister wonder whether he will stay or go. These are no doubt somewhat important questions. About the amicable adjustment of the first, I am. far from sanguine, as it is difficult to lay aside mere personal feeling, when dealing even with an important public question. The Government will doubtless smother out the postoffice matter. The district seems to desire matters to remain as they are. Last, but by no means least, we have the ministerial question. Theophilus Trinal was clearly of opinion that a man ought to seek after salubrity and sanctity." If any one desires the former, Teviot is a choice Bpot ; if the latter, one might find a more congenial part of the world. Not but that we are highly respectable — even church-going to some extent. What I mean is that we are not profoundly interested in directly religious affairs, and this is what makes one doubtful as to the result of any religious movement undertaken by us. A 1 "call" has been resolved on — " call " meaning an invitation from a congregation to a minister to V preside over it. The gentleman thus W called being the Bey. Robert Telford, who has been laboring in the district for some time past. The river goes down — i " small,- by degrees, and beautifully less " ' being an.apt quotation with. respect to its downward progress, as the miners are enabled to work their claims.