ROXBURGH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VIII, Issue 437, 24 February 1875, Page 2

ROXBURGH.

{From our own Correspondent.) February 23rd, 1875. Things here are again assuming their usual appearance, all the claims being in full working order, with the exception of Woodhouse and (Vs., alongside of the punt. This Company require the river to be at a lower level than it is at present to enable them to make a start. M'Donald and Co., the contractors for the Bridge, are again at work building up the piers, ,a supply of fresh cement having come to hand. It is to be hoped that no further stoppage will occnr during its con- j struction, but that everything will ge on smoothly, otherwise, we cannot expect to have the bridge built in anything like the contract 1 time. . . - I am given to understand that an edict has gone forth from the altar of the Roman Catholic Church here to the effect that all connected with the Church must stand aloof from the Order of Good Templars, under threat of expulsion from the Church. I am at a loss to conceive in what way the precepts of the order can clash with the tenets of the Church. Instead of its being a thing to be decried. ! it should •' rather be upheld by alii lovers of order and morality. It seems ! to me to be effecting more good in the shape of reclaiming the drunkard and, raising the fallen than any other remedy' before attempted.

Some time since the Government made a promise that they would send the Government Engineer lip to the head of the Teviot stream to inspect the site of the dam proposed to be constructed there, but up to the present time there is no word of his coming. This dam, if constructed, would be a great boon to the raceholders drawing their water from that source, and a great benefit to the district at large, as the claims would be able to be worked all the time throughout the year, except in the time of floods in the Molyneux itself. A better site could not be found for such a purpose in the whole of Otago than the one proposed, as by the construction of a short and inexpensive dam bank, a sheet of water could be secured, covering some hundreds of acres in extent, and by putting in a proper flushet the races could be supplied with full water all the year round. The Government would in the course of time be fully recouped for the outlay by the revenue on the extra gold that would be got by the miners,