Tapanui Jottings.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 298, 19 June 1897, Page 3

Tapanui Jottings.

I (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) We are having very changeable weather just now. We had a few fine days lately, but "the weather has again changed to rain. Our Gymnasium opened last week, but I am sorry to say there has been a very poor attendance— mostly boys. This excellent form of winter evening recreation does not Beem to catch on with the youths here. Last Thursday evening a number of the 'Koi Valley Good Templars visited the Tapanui Lodge, where a very sociable evening i was spent. On Monday evening an open meeting nss held, when a good- programme was gone through, consisting of a quartette, several songs, readings, recitations, etc. ' After all we are going to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. We are to have a chil- , dren's concert in the Athemeum Hall, and in : the evening a bonfire on the Blue Mountains, toward which the Borough Council has voted £10. Subscriptions are also being taken up to raise money to put up a town clock, and if it should come to pass that we do get one, I would like to know whether it will belong to the Borough Council or to the i people, who subscribed for it. I I ace some p rson singing himself " Colonial," has written to the ' Tapanui Courier ' objecting to the waste of money in having a bonfire and giving the children a , treat, and suggests that, instead, the people— . young and old — should turn out and plant | trees along one of the streets, and call it VioI toria Parade. Possibly he may want it done in his own particular street with the view of improving his own property, and I think he has forgotten that we have an annual Arbor Day, when, if he wishes tree* planted, the people of Tapanui would be quite willing to plant as many as he likes to supply. The -Clutha Licensing Committee have held their meeting, and although we have not had 'Me licenses restored, we seem to be getting along all right without them. Some people are making a great cry about the loss of business in Tapanui through not having the licenses, but I think if they made inquiries from most of the business people here they wonld find that such is not the ca3e. Even the one hotel in tha electorate had the majority of the residents in its immediate vicinity against it. This fact speaks for itself.