PUREKIREKI.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1055, 19 October 1894, Page 5

PUREKIREKI.

[FROM OUR OWN COniIESI'QNnENT J There's joy in the mountains ; There's life in the fountains j Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing : Tho rain \u over and gone ! Ho sang Wordsworth, and so do wo. Rejoicing should ho the order of the day. Who that enjoys the bright sunshine oil these spring days could fail to he happy with so much around to make him so ? Nature is putting on her pretty green coating, and tho bush is being adorned with the blossoms of the goai and clematis. One of the finest nights to be seen just now is tho goai trees covered with their yellow flowers and crowded with tufs— soine of them whistling, aoino chasing each other among the branches, the rest busily engaged gathering honey and insects, while one every now and again darts* out after some unfortunate insect that has happened to come too near. A walk down j the river-side would gladden the heart of any angler, for every now and agajn tho hasty rjpple fln the Biiyfacq of a p,oql betokens {.ho presence of a trout.' In tho adjoining paddockfi the cries and gambols of the lanibs attract attention. In fact there in niuajo in every pound down to the very farmyard rooster — who", you hoar \\hn at a safe cljht tancc. But enough of moralising ; now for news, Our cemetery tvustccH ha,vo boon making themtielvcH conspicuous by turning their attention to the neglected ntalo of the local burying ground, It wan thoir intention to clear it of loose Hcvub and do some, treeplanting round it, but it has got too far on in tho season for that. They have, however, surveyed it into allotments, which have been pegged oi'f ready for uho whon required. A meeting was held in tho schoolroom on Saturday evening last to consider mattersj relating to our second mail and tho l long-talked-of telephone aervlc6. ' The general L footing seems to bo that Wednesday—our 'now mail (W—i<» suU4r>B fi° t™\ though rather little tfmo' elapses between '|ihat flay

and Friday to get answers, to our correspondence. It was agreed to allow the mail days to stand as they! are for the present. It was also moved and. heartily agreed to : " That the best thanks iof the district be accorded to Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., for the interest he took in the second weekly mail while our , petition was before the Postal department at j Wellington, and that a copy of this resolution 1 he forwarded to Mr Mackenzie." The matter of the telephone met with little favour. We are asked to " plank down" a sum of money as a subsidy that will be quite impossible to raise in the district. It was finally agreed to hold over any decision in the matter until it was discovered what the people at Tahatika said about it. The same evening a meeting of the Clutha Trust settlors was held to rliscuss where deferred payment thirds and fourths would be spent on the roads. Cr. Knowles, who was present for the purpose of inquiring into any county business, was voted to the chair. After a good deal of adding up and portioning out of amounts, the spending of them was arranged to everybody's satisfaction. It is gratifying to know that some, at least, of the bad parts of our roads will be repaired and made passable. There is much need of it, for some of the ruts to be seen just now are a disgrace to any county road. Yet another meeting was held of the subscribers to the Owaka Medical Fund. MiGeorge Ford explained in connection with this that negotiations were going on which seemed likely to culminate in the securing of the services of a medical man. All arrangements would be settled when the subscriptions were in hand. It is not otfen we are treated to such a c'ustsr of meetirgs on one night in this part of the world.