TAPANUI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 24, 25 July 1868, Page 2

TAPANUI.

(From our cnon Corrapondcnt). It ii some time aince I communicated with* you regarding the progress of our flourishing district. Thia is partly attributable to the quantity of news, so that J'didiffcknoir which, to communicate first ; .ani always "when juit on the point of deciding the mail man would leave ;-:p.aj:tly, also, daeto my numerous en-, garments, taking me hero and there, sometimes to Dan'ediifj'then to Tunpeka, &c. Having an engagement here this week, I am obliged to^be atr home ; nrid I therefore emrjloy a few spare minutes in writing you a few 1 On the wliole, : I thiak'Tap'aTmi is im--,proying. Since I last wrote you two or threehouses"'have been 1 erected. Meßsrs!- Stewart ,and Gow's large store has been finished ; and; ■ I believe they have foefcd it a fine spec. Thero s not much credit ; the people here are very wellofft everybody pays his'ownadebt*. and sometimes his neighbors. The new mills ara not up yet, but will be shortly. Sic. M'Coll is to have his usual monthly sale on Thursday first. Although only a fresh hand at auctioneering?l:believe -he w^ improve, as he. seems to like the business much. But there's, too much of -the-i! bill" system, d'ye see, and he doesn't like that. There was a great casftof/hottae* breaking and. robbery here a few days. ago. . One, Tommy Shaw broke into. Stewart, and, Go w's stor^, .and wopld have b.ad,,titpe to decamp with' the dash-box ifMessrs.' Vallance and Swan had not arrived too soon. _ I understand these gentlemen* evidence before the Magistrate at Switzers was tebatrorfg|;Jbr, Wf^glir^JToxapy" made an abj[e r defence, he. has been committed. The, 'Mutual Improvement ' Society ii. flourishing." "Hie suoject'df r d6l»ate last night wa^'iTown v. Gountry Ijife." Country life. ,won .the day. On Thursday next Mr. M'Coll' fs to deliver a lecture-oft' " TheLlfe'bf Olirer M'Coll," which ia an interesting subject. The weather, iayery bad at present, brit there arehopes of "aii improvement. There is a great )wautGf policemen in thia district; and if we do not get a.constablo soon in all\)rob»bUity we shall hear of "more robberies: Iwurp«perfc "Ho nbramve "vei^regutsrfy; "Oreartr political meeting hejdhe<e %t vreel [about the roads, which are^a* fearful condition. In my next Jwill senj^^u^^^ particulars.