CLUTHA FERRY.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 61, 8 June 1865, Page 9

CLUTHA FERRY.

(From our own Correspondent.) 6th June, 1865. The Clutha Ferry Library is now fairly started, and, I am happy to say, under very favorable auspices. There was a general meeting held, which was largely attended by the residents of the district, who have taken up the matter very warmly indeed. A very good working Committee was appointed and about £40 subscribed in the room, which has been considerably augmented since, it now amounting to over £50. The committee have held several meetings and already received a catalogue of books to choose from, and I trust that in a few weeks the books will be on the shelves of the library. lam sorry to observe in your last issue that the Tokomairiro library is in such a state as it is ; surely in a place like that the residents can afford to keep up such a useful institution. I also perceive that the Waikouaiti library is in a pretty picldej for want of books which were to be supplied by the Government. I sincerely hope that the library in this district will continue to prosper as well as it has begun. There is no institution more needed in a country district, and none more calculated to afford intellectual enjoyment than a library. Let the committee work with spirit and together and there will not be the slightest doubt of a genuine success. I believe there was a committee appointed some time since for the purpose of erecting a Church here, but what has become of it I cannot tell, not a word or a sign has been heard from them for a long time. It is surely to be expected that they will do something towards bringing such an important subject to a definite point, as to whether we are to have a church in this district or not. I think that a little new blood infused into the Committee might perhaps have the effect of stirring them up a little. ~ The schooner ' Clarendon/ which I mentioned in my last, has proceeded to sea, having been detained some time at Port Molyneux waiting for a favorable Avind to cross the bar, which she got on Saturday and she (immediately took advantage of. A schooner has been waiting outside the bar for the last week to come in, but has not succeeded yet. It is a pity that nothing can be done so as to enable these small vessels to cross the bar as it would very much facilitate the landing of goods from Dnnedin and thereby bring more trade to the port (which I must confess wants it badly enough), as a great number of the settlers would have their goods by water if it was not for that delay. About 50 head of cattle crossed the river yesterday on their way to market and another mob are following, which, with those that went down during the last week, ought to have the effect of reducing the price of bees. I understand that a new butcher's shop is about to be opened here in the course of a few days. They say " opposition is the life of trade," so I suppose we may look for a reduction in price of those necessary articles to all families, beef and mutton.Debtors should beware how they run away from their creditors. A few days ago two j drays were stopped, as they were about crossing the river, by two men, one the creditor and the other the bailiff, who had travelled all the way from Irivercargill, a distance of 80 miles, in order to ■ stop the fugitive debtor, and I believe the debt is considerablyunder £10. ■ < • There is a want which, altho' not actually felt- at present, will no doubt be in a short space of time, and that is a Telegraph SSt- r tion; either here or in Tokomairirp. a very useful thing and ought to be seen labout at once. '■':?/ *• In consequence of the mail bags still being ■missing^ through the upsetting of" the Tnver-

cargiJl coach in the Mataura, I notice that a mounted constable has been despatched ' to the scene of- : the accident to endeavour, if possible, to recover some of the missing property. ; ■ .:'—;■ I perceive in your last week's paper a letter signed " Taua Hinau" in reference to. the withdrawal of the steamer "Tuapeka." I fully, intended answering •it this week, but from unavoidable causes I shall not "be* able to do so until next. ...:.... The weather has been on the whole fine lately, the days being warm and the nights • clear and frosty. It is to be hoped that it will continue so, as we have had sufficient • wet weather to last us for some time.