CAMBRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1125, 22 June 1867, Page 6

CAMBRIDGE.

(FROII OCB OWi CORRESPONDENT.)

Juno 17. Foit the last three weeks tho irregularity of the mail* between Point Russell and Cambridge has been such as to recall to one's recolleuuon the old campaigning days, before the virgin waters of the AVaikuto woro defiled by tho white man's steamers. Indeed tho arrival of a mail horo just now has come to be looked on a3 a rare evont in.the chapter of nccidonta. This is said to bo owing to tlio Blue Nose (which has tho contract for convoying the m-'Us up tho.Waikato), being laid up for repair. We avo quite in the dark, however, as to tho nature of the temporary arrangements that have been made fertile running of mails between Point liussell and Ngaruawliia, or whother any auch arrangements havo been made at all'. ; The postmaster at the latter place lias occasionally had the nii'H bags convoyed to and from Point jßussell on horseback, but whether ho or the proprietors of the I3luo-noso are to blame for those vexatious delays I know not. We have not been retrograding in other respects than our postal arrangements, however. Our two last steps in advsnce have been the establishment of an Odd Fellows' lodge, and tho formation of a Rifle Club. Tho latter is as vet in embryo. The former, though hardly a month in existence, far exceeds the Masonic Lodge in point of numbers and popularity. The Freemasons opened a lodge here more than a year ago, which, however, seems to maintain only a languishing existence, being less appreciated among us than the younger fraternity, which, has the attraction of being a Benefit society. The Masonic Order is far too aristocratic and pretentious for a community lilio ours, and, in my humble opinion, its Cambridge Lodge was born twenty yearß before its time. The Odd Fellows hold their'meetings at Mr. Robinson's hotel. From the testimony of a gentlempn residing near Matamata; it seems that the natives in-that- quarter are apprehensive of an attack ori their settlement by the Arawas; in 6tbfer"vvords,'the war panic seems to haye shifted its locale from Cambridge to Matamata, being, no doubt, destined to as short an existence in the latter place as it has had in the former. .; „