RAGLAN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) April 5.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3940, 8 April 1870, Page 4

RAGLAN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) April 5.

i>o\\ tn.it tnera is some project of Raglan improving in prosperity and commemaf importance, a opportunity presents, itself to any entei pnsmg and respectable person to open a iirst-class temperance hotel and boarding -house. For some time back there I has been a steadily increasing number of ; visitoid lnquning for mill-sites, or sheep j iiuis, tVc, and, of course, those inquiries ; cause a stay of some few days, and a demand j is created for some superior accommodation for gentleman travellers. Had we a temperance hotel and boarding-house, where mode- | rate charges were made, and where cleanliness and comfort were studied, there can be no doubt a very respectable business would be done. Many persons would be induced to stay a few days longer perhaps than they had intended, in order to enjoy the in- ! Mgcratino effects of sea-bathing, for it may j not bo generally known that Raglan possesses j nn excellent beach for bathing impose*, I well sheltered from observation by a peninj sula, and within a very short distance of the j township. In f<ct, it only requires a few bathing-machines, proper accommodation, and public patronage to enable Rag! n to become the Brighton of New Zealand.— The screw-steamer ' Keera,' from Lyttelton, with 1,200 sheep on board, for Messrs. Douglas and Parker, steamed into our harbour on Friday last. The sheep were landed the same day, and the following morning they commenced their journey to the Waikato. This is the third trip the ' Keera' has made to our harbour with sheep for the Waikato enmtry. — Amongst the refugees from a native settlement near here who made Raglan their place of residence when the first war broke out, were some two or three scamps whose previous pursuits were possibly of a questionable character. These men have been a continual source of trouble and annoyance to the more respectable and peaceful inhabitants of the Raglan district. We were in hopes a short time ago that we had lost some of these gentry, but now they have returned to Raglan again, to the great regret of the inhabitants. It is to be hoped the police I authorities will keep a sharp look-out after these individuals, and not allow them to be- j come a nuisance to the district. I