TAPANUI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 2 May 1868, Page 3

TAPANUI.

(From our Own Cdrrespondbnt.) Several buildings are neatly finished since I wrote you last— one of them which will add greatly to the benefit of the township and the surrounding district is a store of Messrs. Stewart & Gow's, of Clutha Ferry. The building is 26 x 40 ft., and will when finished, be very substantial, and an ornament to the township. I understand that Messrs. Stewart & Gow purpose selling their goods at Dunedin prices, adding, of course, cartage, and I feel assured they will receive a large share of the Tapanui public support. Your correspondent has occasionally to go the city of Dunedin, where he has lately arrived by Cobb & Co.'s coach from Clutha Ferry, and if he were to give you an account of his journey from Tapanui to the Ferry, he could not speak in a complimentary manner of the state of the roads, nor of the Government or representatives, for allowing thpm to remain in their present state. If nothing is done this session in voting a pood sum iov these roads, the present traffic upon them will cut them up, and make them almost impassable. The ruuholders are fencing in their land and putting gates on the roads with notion, not " Please to shut the gate," but " Be sure to shut the gate after you " placed upon them. But of course, the squatters don't want roads. A good road would be a great benefit to • Captain Mackenzie, whose residence is in Glenkennock, and I believe a smooth road would smooth him down, so that he would not speak so rashly in the Council against those who would be an ornament to the land. I heard him a few days since in the Council Hall, and it struck me forcibly that he must have been studying a letter that appeared in the " Bruce Herald " on the 25th of March, by " Old Sam.' 1 Speaking of roads, I may say that the rough riding from Tapanui to the Clutha Ferry was enough to completely tire me out, and I felt a great relief when I was comfortably located in i the Crown Hotel, which for comfort and i attention equals any hotel in the Pro- ; vince. If not total abstainers, I would • recommend travellers to a glass of Mr. Barr's whisky, for I am certain that out 1 of Campbeltown they will not get better. The land so interesting to Tapanui folk s will be sold in Dunedin on the 6th of > May. I may state that according to last L " Gazette," Mr. James M'Coll, of Tapat nui, has applied for an auctioneer's license, and that the application will he i considered on the 30th instant. I nnder- , stand £t is that gentleman's intention tc hold monthly sales of stock, &c, .ai . Tapanni. S