TUAPEKA MOUTH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue III, 26 May 1870, Page 5

TUAPEKA MOUTH.

(From a Correspondent).

Your remarks in last issue, relative to our soiree and ball, have the approval of this community, as far as they went, bitfc several of the speakers complained that you took no notice of their speeches. Mr. Fiji, for instance, considers that his remarks were very telling, and that they ought to have made their appearance in print, but as you intimated that on account of great pressure on your columns, you were compelled to leave much valuable information out, they have attributed it to that reason, and you stand excused. I believe the Committee are well satisfied with the result of the entertainment, they having netted some eight or nine pounds profit by it, to go towards the building fund. lam informed that the building, as it now stands, is free from debt, the Government subsMy of fifty pounds having been received, and that with the sum of thirty p*ounds, collected from various sources, having been paid o\er to the contractor, leaves it in the above mentioned satisfactory position, but as you will probably by this time have a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditure from the commencement, I will not go further into this subject.

It is mooted to have sixpenny readings in the new- school-room once a month during the winter, the proceeds to go towards the school funds ; and as amusements of any description are not overabundant in this locality, I think the movement, if properly conducted, ought to be a success.

I was glad to observe by your last issue that steps were being taken to memorialize the Government to get something done to the road between' here and Lawrence. lam certain that any one travelling the road at this time of the year will say that it is absolutely a work of necessity, as well as mercy, towards both biped and quadruped.

The bridge across the Tuapeka still stands, although, as you say, it is rather screwed. I have, however, known instances of bridges as well as individuals; lasting a long time in that state.

Mining matters are looking up. Several new claims having been opened on the Tuapeka River lately, with fair prospects of proving remunerative.

The Molyneux is also looking up, being at present considerably above the usual winter level.