DALHOUSIE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 137, 22 September 1870, Page 5

DALHOUSIE.

(From a Correspondent.) In my last I mentioned that I thought there was an opening in the district for a blacksmith and a boot and shoe maker. I am happy to be able now to inform you that in a very short time we will have both these trades repres >nt3d here. But the great event here at prssent is a new river steamer, which is about to be built down at the company's Clydevale Station. A company has been formed, the timber is being prepared, the engine is to hand, and in the course; of a few months we will have a steamer (with a local pro| riet try) trading between here and the mouth of the Molyneux. At some future time 1 will endeavour to give you a professional description of her length, breadth, tonage, horse power, how much her anchor weighs, &c. What is your Water Supply Progress Convention about ? We have beeu expecting a visit from som« of its members ere this, and feel so warm on the subject that it requires a pretty good supply of water to enable us to jog on in our usual Calm and collected way. I wish, we had never heard anything about it, " That if it is to be done, it were well it were done quickly. (Is that Sjwkeshave ?) Could you not manage to get the mayor to proclaim a general holiday for a week, as you do not appear to be ovei-bardened with business, and have a monsier pic-nic down here to the banks of the Molyneux. We will be glad to see you. Au restrvoir.