TUAPEKA MOUTH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 122, 9 June 1870, Page 5

TUAPEKA MOUTH.

(From an occasional Correspondent). There was a well-attended and influential meeting held in the new schoolroom here last Saturday evening — Mr. W. D. Morrison in the chair — for the purpose of petitioning the Government to -grant us regular postal communication between Lawrence and this place. The result of the meeting was the following resolutions, which were unanimously carried :—l.: — 1. ".That a memorial be drawn up and signed by the chairman on behalf of the inhabitants, and forwarded to Mr. Barr, Chief Postmaster, praying for a bi-weekly mail between Lawrence and this place." 2. "That Messrs. Mailler, Matthews, Leather, Morrison, Taylor, Brown, and Arbuckle form a committee to carry out the objects of the previous resolution." Now, sir, I think that if the Government take into consideration the population in this district, the revenue derived from it, and the absence of any Government expenditure in the shape of police, &c, they cannot conscientiously refuse us at least a weekly mail. I think if mining matters go on as they promise to do, the next thing we will have to ask the Government for will be

an escort. A. number of the claims are about to wash up, and on the whole the prospects are very promising. The first of our Sixpenny Readings take place next Tuesday evening. Mr. Arbuckle has taken in hand to get up the first programme ; and as a great deal depends on the first being attractive, it is to be hoped that he will be assisted by volunteers able and willing to do what they can to make it a pleasant and popular entertainment. I noticed in your last, a letter from Mr. Mailler, complaining that I represented the position of the school here as too much couleur de rose. I had no intention of doing so. 1 merely stated that as it now stood, it was free from debt, and so it is. Of course, I well know that a school is one of those institutions that, through improvements, enlargements, &c. , is always in a chronic state of impecuniosity; in fact a school without a debt upon it would be a perfect anomaly. In your " Passing Events,'' you mention something about two old hats found in the gutter in Ross Place, and you suspected their owners would be found to be rather down at the Mouth. Now some addle-pated persons have an idea that you meant to insinuate something in regard to this place. It is rather annoying to some of the residents here whenever they pay your town a visit, to be met in the teeth with such observations as, "Still down at the mouth." Now, on the whole, I do not think we are apt to be down at the Mouth, so we intend in future sticking to the name of our township (Dalhousie) as being more aristocratic, and which will also do away with would-be witty and malicious remarks made by some of your community.