TAPANUI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 213, 29 February 1872, Page 6

TAPANUI.

(From, our o%mx Correspondent.) ' February 23.

Since mj last note, scarcely anything worth writing about has occurred in this locality. The mills are in full swing again, and the rain, thpusjh late/ will do a great deal of good, particularly to late crops, which look very fair notwithstanding the dry weather. The straw is short, but the bead is very good, and will give a fair average to the acre.

Our eleven chosen good cricketers and true have gone to-day to Switzers to compete against an equal number of^ Knights of the Willow of that place, and, express a determination to win. I believe the match comes off to-morrow (Saturday). - A return match will be played I hope' at Tapanui this season, and before the fine weather vanishes, In mining matters, things look well at Waikaka judging from appearance. There are two new hotels in course of erection, also two butchers' shops, all on the flat near the house of Mr. M'Donald, the shepherd. Mr Hunter is erecting, or about to do so, a large hotel and store, and f purposes to get a billiard room for the amusement of our Chinese miners, numbering about 150. Mr. Edge, formerly dairy mau and butcher of Switzers, is the other party .erecting a hotel and butcher's shop. The latter gentleman's wife, whose known business capacity, and hospitable and kind' manner, will, I am sure, gain for her a large amount of. patronage. The traveller may assure himself of getting his meals served up by her in the good old English style, and plenty to spare.

There are a few stragglers again returning to Mlntyre's run, and no doubt more will follow as the rainy season sets in.