TUAPEKA NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 2

TUAPEKA NOTES

[From Ocn Own ConnEsroxDENT.] The preliminaries in connection with the proposal for tho celebration of the jubilee 'of Gabriel's Gully received a vorv helpful shunt onward at the beginning of last week, when a public meeting was held to appoint a general committee. A representative committee of twenty, with power to add to tin- number, was accordingly (appointed. On Tuesday evening; the Committee met and appointed a number of sub-committees, who were charged witii the licking into shape of the various details incidental to tho jubilee celebrations. Canvassers have been appointed to solicit funds; for it is realised that without funds very little could be done in the way of becomingly celebrating the jubilee of Otago's most famous goldiicM. The feeling is widespread that the Government'have acted very shabbily in not giving tin unconditional grant insi<-ad of a L for t subsidy up to £'o(.!D towards carrying out the jubilee celebrations. A dir-.-tt grant of £2.30, with a subsidy of t for t up to £2oo, would not have been amiss, and would, not have made :i very serious inroad on Ihe Treasury fund'-, while at the same time it would have inspired the local Committee with ilie feeling that the celebration of the jubilee of Gabriel':- rush was recognised as an event. of national nnporfaii'-e. For most jisf.invilly the rli'ionvcry id' gold in Gabriel'-. 'Gully, with I in- lure,e influx of population which followed, gave the then colony oiv of the n:o:-t hHpfui lifrs forward thai ever occurred in its history. There i- no dem ing this great fad—this big page in Sow Zealand's history. An! vir,. then, should the Go\ eminent of lis present day V' mi unmindful of ilc hi-tori;- spot that din so luucii Mi i-iak.' New Zealand v, hat il is to-day r I can 1 ! help thinking thai if these' jubilee celebrations had come I.; pass in lie- late Mr S"ddon's day they would ha-.e r -eciv.•■■! different li'ca'.moiit ui tiie hands of his Covonill!"ll ■.

Ami so also v.-iiiil'l the l.awroneei:<)>:li(ir,:i! Kailw.-u. .MrScdfli.it would iicv. ;-. ji:ii| In- been ,'ilivc to-day. have allowed the const ruction works to lie ck-si (i down, nor would lie have boon :i party In the i':;rc." of viiiininjj; the train, uieo weekly, 1o Hie; Hill as at present, JL would most assuredly either he rnni;ii>'.; to Beaumont, where tliere is settlement., and where their' is siili more room tor m-i tl'-u:eut. or not at all. But apparently under other rulers this is ;i riny of ,'-•111:1 II things. We have to he content with what is ladled out to us— L'lo.lloo for the ri'stimpti'in of work on the ].;iuTeiife-Uo\'i>iir",li Ji';i!'.\.".v and a U i"r,r <J .subsidy (up to L'."'; 1. a tithe of which will only he raised) lor eolchrafii"..; ill'' jnhii'.'e of the Gabriel's Gully rush! -Many wondi r it it is due to the presence (l r j.}r. t -» Hon. Thomas .Mar-ken/io in ih" Cabinet that this district is so ill-favored in these elayr, hy the Ware (jlovi-rnment r

:>lr A. M. Kyes, cleric of the S.M. and Waidon':; Courts, who is retiring from itir' at tho end of the yt-DV, was prosoiaod by t'io local Hai on Tuesday with a ftold case and a eas" ol pipes. .Mr Eyes, who is a very obii.Lriim; ami courteous officer, lias been stationed hero for the l.tr-.t fointoon year:;.

Thero has boon a !oa;:-looked-i'or break in tho weather. On Wednesday afternoon a very heavy thunrlerstonn passed over the district, doinp; ennsidrrrdde damage Ut fruit and vegotahlo

cardens. \U\in fell heavily at intervals on Thursday, ami this forenoon n heavy drixxlo sei. "in. continuing up till midday. The rainfall has boon welcomed hv fanners and miners alike.

Tiie annual Guild salo in connection with Trinity (Anglican) Clmrch was hold on Wc"-ln> bday, and proverl a big siurns*. Lite proer rxh totaJled £65. A large quantity of wool will find its way from thi:; district to the sales in Dancdin next wock. Most of tbo growers ;iro well £,atisiiod with the quality of tlioir clips this season. Lawrence, December 9.