TAPANUL

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 30 May 1868, Page 3

TAPANUL

(From our own Correspondent). Since I wrote you last there have been several buildings finished 1 such as dwelling houses ; lam sorry to say too many of them are bachelor halls. Those who have got the land adjoining the town have commenced to fence it, and there are already two stock yards and a cow house built, and one of the Taieri crack ploughmen is up with a pair of horses and plough, and has already contracted to plough several hundred acres of the sold land, which is a fair' beginning for farming in the district, as it is not yet a month since the land was 1 sold. I am sorry to say, however, that our small commonage is quite inadequate, our stock being only 600 acres. You must know that we have no Hundreds 'at Tapanui, and at the late sale nearly 4,000 acr«s were sold out of the 8,000 acres. Whether a Yogel or a Thompson Government be in office, ,we wish them to keep us in mind. If 50,000 acres were thrown open here, they could be sold within two years, whereat the Taieri membe rcan only guarantee 10,000 acres in seven years, of the 25,000 acre Hundreds proposed for the West Taieri. We are moving steadily onward in this quarter. There is another steam saw mill about to start by a Southland firm ; the engine is on the way, Messrs. M'Coll and Co. are also about to replace their present steam saw mill by a larger one, which it is said will be capable of sawing 8,000 ft. a day. I wish these companies every success, as I believe there is room for them all. What we are urgently in want of now is roads. What might I ask is our M.P.C. doing? I would ask him where is our Tapanui Hundreds ? When is Gorge road to be made? Our streets are so bad that I hardly know how to get out to post this letter. , The sections in the township are not sold yet, and as we are not of the frog species, we cannot swim in the mud, There was a preliminary meeting in Allan's Commercial Hotel last night, to form a Mutual Improvement Society, when a Committee consisting of the following named gentlemen was appointed: — Dr. Niven, - Messrs. Allan, M'Lennan, M'Coll, Neish, Price, Wood, and Hewitt. W. H. Roberts, Esf., Hon. President ; Dr. Niven, President ; James M'Coll, Vice-President ; Mr. Neish, Secretary; Mr. Hewitt, Treasurer, First meeting to be held on Thursday first,' and the object of the Society to be the reading of essays, and the discussion of th* policy of the colony, and things in gen«nd. "■ . : •