TOKA TOKA.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 199, 26 May 1893, Page 2

TOKA TOKA.

[from our own correspondent] "Winter seems to have ‘ come to stay ’ already, and with it the attendant miseries of muddy roads, mumps and bad colds, and perhaps measles in prospective, but let us not anticipate. This is the season with us for the gay and festive gumdigger, and consequently we have two or three hundred of them, not including Austrians, who, I am informed, are literally swarming on the Mongonui Creek, so that all the white (?) men there hare had to shift camp further inland. Business is very brisk here now, horses and bullock teams, and pack horses being constantly engaged in carrying goods and gum. We have another store now, Mr R. M. Clark having recently commenced business in a conveniently situated store close to the hotel and boarding house, and within easy distance of the wharf. The hotel has ohanged hands again lately ; Mr Taylor, the late lessee, having only had it about six months. The present lessee, Mr Bright, arrived here with his bride last Monday. Mr A. Melville has had a number of sheep worried by dogs lately, several were killed and more than twenty wounded and torn. A Petition praying; for a telephone to connect Tcka Tolra with Mititai is being numerously signed and subscribed to here ; and as the Inspector of Telegraphs has expressed himself to be in favour of it, there is every hope of the boon being granted us.