TUAPEKA MOUTH,

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 29 August 1868, Page 3

TUAPEKA MOUTH,

(From our own Corresporuknt.) The Rev. Mr. M'Nicol preached here ; on (Sunday ; the attendance was small, which is not surprising — the population ' is much scattered, many of the inhabi- ! tants reside a few miles up the creek, and j some down the flat. No intimation is given when the service is to be held ; were a notice posted up at Mr. Taylor's store two or three days before the minister was to come, I have no doubt there would be a respectable audience — however, I hope the inhabitants in this locality will come forward liberally with their subscriptions for the purchase of a hor3e that there may be no excuse on the part of the reverend gentlemen. The last flood carried away the chief supports of Messrs. Anderson and Vernon's fluming across the Tuapeka, causing much loss of tima and expense to tho owners, but they have, notwithstanding j the inclemency of the weather and other \ difficulties, re-erected it, and raised it ten | feet higher, making it now seventy feet above the level of the wajien It is a surprising piece of architecture. Some of the largest timber support the boxes that ever was drafted down the Molyneux. The cost of the original fluming was L 12 0; the one just finished has cost Ll7O. I believe the claim is rich, and the owners deserve good recompense for the enterprising spirit they have displayed. Not only were the proprietors the planners, but they were the principal workmen throughout the erection of it. No person would regret going twenty miles out of his way to view it. Messrs. Lewis and party have erectoi I"a dam across the Tuapeka fourteen feet [ high, about three nules from the Mouth, and are cutting a, race along the banks of the creek to work a claim on Hughes' Flat. It is calculated it will cost seven or eight hundred pounds. In passing along the creek the other day I noticed a couple of' Chinamen putting up a tent. They are the first Celestials who have pitched, their camp in this locality. The late John M'Cudden's share (a third) in a claim was sold by public auction on Monday at Anderson's store. It was knocked down to Mr. Anderson.