TAUPO.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XI, Issue 1273, 17 May 1882, Page 2

TAUPO.

(hum own own correspondent )

Ix tIiORO out districts of New Zealand wo very of ton find ourselves iv the position oi' a trodden clown villag-o of Asia Minor years ago. Iv what I might term the primeval clays of Taupo this district was favoured with a biweekly coach mail ; now, when there in ton times; the amount of population and -wealth, wo iivo cut down to a "wretched pack-horse service. This would not ko much mutter, providing 1 that tho contractors would deliver the mail at a reasonable time. Thin oflico ; closes afc 7 o'clock, and the mail being delivered sometimes at 9 o'clock from the Auckland side causes a week's delay in answering- correspondence, which is particularly annoying' when a man is expecting- to receive letters of credit ; ■ if bills arc coming- a man resigns lumself with the patience worthy of Job to that misluvp. I Another wrong, which I see is "being; attended to, Mr Ashman and a small party beingnow busily surveying' the best line of road betwixt Atcamuri and Waotou. This last connecting- link betwixt North and South will bo a great boon to tho travelling' public, an it will enable tourists and capitalists to oo;ich and rail from "Wellington to Auckland, or ■cioo rrr.ui, and might be the moans of inducing 1 some of tho last named gentlemen to take up some of this 3vmeh-abnsud country for sheep runs, and it would likewise enable tourists to view the beauties and wonders of tho Lake District without tho dangers and misery of a sea route. THE AVEATHEK. The' weather in this district siuco I last wrote has been the worst known for ten years. It is now raining' heavily, with no prospect of its knocking oif for v month perhaps. TJIK 11O.VDS. The roads arc much cut up. All tho available A. 0. havo been ordered from tho camp to make temporary repairs. That Slough of Despond, the Oropi 15nsh, between Ohineinutu and Taurang-a, will very shortly be impassable. I believe Christian, with all his faith in tho good things beyond, would stick up. At CMunonmtu itself the roads round about tho hotels aro almost kuco deep iv mud, and, with dung hills at every corner, creating ! v effluvia that cannot remind them of tho smells of Arabia the blest. Now that the Government doctor has been made a J.P. I hope ho will attend to this littlo matter, or if not 1 might enimiro " where aro the police ?" Ilia Lordship the Bishop of "Waiapu has passed through here to Roloma. He hold Divine Service here last Sunday, which was much needed, aa clerical visits are like angel's visits in this place. EABTHQTJAKE. Last Tuesday, about 12.30, a violent shock of earthquake waa felt here — the sharpest that has been felt for tho last month, only lasting, however, about four seconds. '1 ho oscillation appeared to come, from the g,E» I clid. no.)

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