ROXBURGH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 22, Issue 277, 22 May 1873, Page 6

ROXBURGH.

(FfOty our picn Correspondent.) Jlpthjng very extraordinary has happ§P9cl tip ]}efe tp report upon this week, ftp. piiniug |s still going on favorably, the pjyer still keeping low. • X was rather surprised oi} reading <* t'lopghbpy's " letter. \t is greatly exaggerated. I have no, doubt but that the owner of the licensed house mentioned in the Jettep must have been very much anjipyed that his nice English grass paddock, right opposite the licensed house was n °t takeu up for the occasion. This party ee,nt in his. application for it to be ploughed #t least a week before the tenders weye asked for, 1 presume with the idea that he was to reap the full benetit of the ssid ploughing match. As there is not another licensed house within, at least, five miles of hia, ho might have been content with a fair share, without wanting it all. I see that his great pigeon match, $c t , which was to have come otfon the 24th (Queen's birthday) has been postponed till tl\e ploughing match. Now, as to the committee of management, I d<> not think a i letter one could be found in the district ; and the party who picked out |he. ground aye competent judges, wd ai\i go.od plodghmeii themselves, and if v " fancies himself, and has some spare cash, I daresay he can get a n^atch up on the same day on the ground, with any of these judges o£ the ground. His ideas regarding tussocks, speargrasa, wild Irishmen, &c, n§ ed not trouble him, as lam sure ho can as wild Irishmen on the said English grass paddock, as ever decked the sud. *'■ Bloughboy " is very charitably inclined, but he will find ; I think, that the ploughing match will be a success and not ii failure. The bridge ove* the river at Roxburgh, is. again the grea.c topic of conversation. Jfo doubt it is much needed ; more so, I think, than on any other part of the Eiver Alolyneux, perhaps leaving the JBeamnont out of the question. The inhabitants have now sent a petition to the Government, signed by almost every resident in the district, a copy of which I send you. l£ is to be hop.cd that the Government will grunt such a largo district the request. Tft the Honorable the Speaker and the members of the Provincial Council of Qtago, \n session assembled. $i>e humble petition of the undersigned residents in the district of Mount Benger. Sheweth that for several years pa,st, a vast amount of inconvenience, annoyance, iyyl expense has been borne by the inhabitants, of the Mount Uengcr district, through the want of a bridge over the Siver Molyneux %t the township of Roxburgh. That the petitioners desire to bring under tthe notice of your honorable Council, the Claims which thuy conceive they have upon tjh.e Government for a. suitable bridge being jsa,ced over the river at the place indicated. * That the expediency of such bridge being pjxivided has been recognised by a previous Ijttting of your honorable Council, and alao lay members of previous Executives ; but as yet nothing has, been done towards its construction. That, during the past year or two, several yery lai^e blocks of land have been sold in district, realising an amount estimated at $p.ut £75,000. That the QoYernmeni have disposed of all Sections of land wi'hjin the township of Roxburgh., a_nd realised a, considerable sum ' ifhat the revenue received by; the Gavernn^ent from, rent of agricultural leaseholds, $n<i also, from, the. issue of miners,'- sights, e£r/tifica^esi, business, spirit, and other 'exclusive of the large amount paid $r duty npofl gold, is. far. in excess of the anyrant collected in man}' other districts. That the township of Roxburgh aot being declared a municipality, has in no way been benefited by grants of money as. assistance Awards Public Works, in like to other places $f less imporijance, That during the. past two years only a $»m, of about £50,0 has been spent in, respect $f public works connected with the district, $nit a further sum of about £500 on the main road leading through the district,. • That this district has a very large and set■^ed population. Your petitioners therefore pray that your iionorable Council may be pleased to cause a suitable bridge for ordinary traffic to be cou- . stracted- over the Eiver Molyneux at the township at Roxburgh, and thereby provide for a want which has been long and severely There i» also a petition to the Government forwarded from Messrs. Chatburu £$d Paity, to divert part of the main road a$ Ooal Greek ; this, to my idea, as woll as a great many others, ought to bo granted. For if the Government do not allow these minera to divert the road, the Government will have to do it themselves, as the present road is most dangeryjs, not being a chain' wide.