TAPANUI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 257, 2 January 1873, Page 8

TAPANUI.

(From a Correspoiident. ) IVfan proposes, but the Ordinances of the Provincial Council disposes — at least they haye disposed of our Corporation for the present. After all our eloquent and fine speeches j our high hopes and great expectations of cocked hats and white bait dinners, election rows and street gravelling, the first blast from Dunedin has withered them up, and they have vanished away into thin air. Fifty residents, over the age of twenty one, are required to petition for the honor of having a corporation ; but fifty are not to be found. What's to be done ? Must we yet again hide our diminished head, and skulk back again to the friendly shelter of our pines and broadleafs ? No, no. I have it ! Send a petition to. Julius, under the Public Works and Immigration Scheme, to land the next batch of Scadinavianß at Tapanui, under the special patronage of the General Government, with instructions to send home good accounts to their friends. Then, if this petition succeeds, tbe next is sure to, Through tbe indefatigable exertions j of our Mr. Neish, that much felt want in tbe district, a doctor, is at last to be supplied, and is to arrivß forthwith in the shape and likeness of Doctor Jacob Selig Caro, late of Waitahuna and Oainaru. Mr, Neish, it appears, accidentally met the doctor at Balclutha a few days ago, and finding that he was a present without a charge, at once entered into negotiations with him about the Tapanui district, during which it was agreed that if the local society and the inhabitants, within a short radius of the township, guaranteed between them £150 for the first year, he would come. Immediately on Mr. Neish's return, a public meeting was convened ; the doctor's proposals laid before them, when the matter was taken up with enthusiasm, and a committee appointed to canvass the district. The canvass was successful, and the result is that we are to have Mr. Caro amongst us next week. May his labors be light, and his dreams undisturbed I The school prizes were distributed ; according to merit on Wednesday last, and the school closed for tbe Christmas vacations. A feudal warfare on a small scale seems to be raging in the Waikaka district at present. Mr. M'Arthur, the new manager on tho Waikaka Station, seems to have arrayed himself in all his might, and sternly tells that " troublesome man," the digger, that he means to keep both him and I his dogs within their own triglines for the future. Well, few would be inclined to grumble as far as the dogs are concerned, but when the bailing of the billy is interfered with, it becomes a more serious matter j and when the j manager of a run puts on gates and ; locks them on a surveyed roadline to ' the only available bush in the district, it means something like patting a man*s fire out. A complaint was i sent to the Waste lands Board, we believe, by the miners, and Mr. M'Arthur there denied, or caused to be denied, that he had locked the gates on the road in question. This seems a strange assertion in the far* of so many statements to the contrary, and even since, we hear of parties being locked out ; and others who happened to get through being locked in. A map q£ the roadline has also been procured by the miners, but Mr. M'Arthur refuses to meet them. It is to be hoped that Mr. M'Arthur will soon learn, or be mede to see, that even managers of runs are not allpoorerfujl in this country ; and that miners will have fairplay and their billy boiled, managers and runs notwithstanding.

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