TUAPEKA MOUTH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 132, 18 August 1870, Page 5

TUAPEKA MOUTH.

(From our own Correspondent.) At a meeting of the school committee, held on the 4th ult., they requested the secretary to write to James Smith, Esq., of Greenfield Station, and express their thanks to him for the handsome bell he had sent by Mr. Richards for the benefit of the school and church. It will be a great advantage in this locality, for although most of the houses have time pieces, few of them have time keepers, and the watches which diggers are in the habit of carrying are generally at the watchmakers. Tuapeka Mouth, or more properly Dalhousie, is in the ascendant. Mr. Arbuckle has commenced building a store in Bridge-street, and Mr. Dawson has commenced the erection of a hotel a hundred yards nearer the bridge. Mr. Taylor's hotel is already built, but he is about to put up a new store, as the law does not allow grog and sugar to be sold under the same roof ; and though last, not least, the erection of a bakery is to commence this week, which, there is no doubt, will pay well. A baker from Waitahuna has been supplying the people here for some time, and surely it will pay a man better on the spot. Mr. Morrison's saw mill has been let by tender for two years to Messrs. Roscoe, Hewitt,, and Paterson for rafting and sawing in conjunction. Some time ago we were agitating for a weekly mail. If the inhabitants of Dalhousie can support two stores, two hotels, and a bakery, the Government can have no objection to give us the mail service. It is true we are an out-of-the-way sort of people, a kind of principality by ourselves. We never have a visitor from the camp unless it be a trooper once or twice a year, who has come down looking after some stray delinquent from Lawrence, who, he thought, might have taken up his abode among the quiet people of the Mouth. We cost the Government no camp expenses. If we have any litigation (which is seldom) we go up to Lawrence — another reason why we should have a weekly mail.