ROXBURGH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 214, 7 March 1872, Page 6

ROXBURGH.

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This little township has Litely shown more enterprise than an) other upcountry town I have visited. Several new buildings have recently been completed, several more tire in course of construction, anJ sever;! 1 others are in contemplation, so that before another year passes away, the town of Roxburgh will have undergone so great a change that the casual traveller will scarcely know the place. iSul.stantial buildings — not of perishable material — but of hard durable stones are fast taking the place of the primitive wood and iron structures of the early goldfield days. The Wesleyans opened their new chapel a week ago, and the Church of England is making rapid strides towards completion — the former is an ungainly building — but the latter will be an ornament to the town. Mr. A. MTherson, of the Roxburgh Hotel, lias comineuced to build a new Hotel ou the surveyed street, a fe»v feet behind his present house. Like nearly all the modern buildings in Roxburgh, it will consist of stone. It is to be a two-storey building, containing 10 bed-rooms, all of which will be on the first floor. Mr. M'Pherson has also removed his stable to the back of the section, and added loose boxes to it. Mi". Beigliton, has built two

shops and added considerably to his stable accomodation. I believe, he also intends, to effect considerable alterations in the Hotel building. Mr. Harry M'Douall at last shows some signs of getting his house finished. Tenders have been accepted for the erection of a gaol. The plans and specifications, which were drawn up by Mr. Robert Smith, represent a building that will, I hope, bo sufficiently large for the rowdies of ths Teviot for many a long clay. This building is to occupy a site, between the Roman Catholic Church, and the Church of England. £210 was the amount of the accepted tender.