TOKOMAIRIRO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 285, 18 November 1862, Page 6

TOKOMAIRIRO.

(VHOM OUH OWs 1 CORRESPONDENT.) Monday last was pretty generally observed as a holiday in this district in honor of H.'ii.ll. the Prince of birthday, the stores, bunk, &c., being all closed. The high wind which prevailed during the day rendered it unfavorable for out- ■ door amusements, but despile this a lame number of gentlemen assembled iti the afternoon to amuse themselves with the manly game of cricket. The ground selected was a paddock beion^in^ to John Hardy, Esq., M.P.C. ; and after several hours of play, a meeting was held, Mr Hardy in the chair, at which it was unanimously resolved " That a club to he culled the Tokornairiro Cricket Cub be formed." Another resolution fix^'d the annual subscription at 10s, and almost ovary gentleman present enrolled his name as a member. The following gentlemen were then elected a committee ibr the ensuing year with power to make such rules a they might deem advisable, viz. : —Messrs. A. Jones, \Y. 11. Mans ord, Wm, Popplewell, John Hardy, and E. T. Gilloii. The latter being also elected hon. secretary and treasurer.

The club meets lor practice every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, oa the ground on which they played on Monday, and which Mr. Hardy has kindly permitted them to use. A \evy litti« trouble will make it an excel lent cricket gr.sund, and from the spirit displayed by the various player?, I think that the club is likely t;> prove highly successful.

The Agricultural Society is still dormant. At the time ot' the last ploughing mutch here, it was announced that the society intended to hold a show of stock in the course of a few months, and on the strength of this promise ami the excellence of the mulch which has just taken place, a number of ten shilling subscriptions were collected. The best time for a show of stock has now gone by. One of the most important branches of such a show would be that of entire horses, and that breeders might have an opportunity of judging by comparison of the merits of the various sires before the commencement of the season as at the conclusion of it ; there is but little practical advant: ge to be derived from the exhibition, and it does not do the horses justice. Since the p!oii»lii;itj match however nothing has been heard of the committee or of the intended show. What has become of the subscriptions ? Is there a balance in the hands of the treasurer, or have all the funds been expended ? Surely the members of the society have a right to hay; these and a few other similar questions answered. Hitherto the proceedings of the committee have been as secret as the deliberations of the Council of Ten, and the subscribers have been kept in the most profound ignorance of the state of the society from its commencement up to the present time.

Lame numbers of miners are leaving the Woolshed fur the Duustun, the accounts from which arc most encouraging, Considerable complaints are being made as to the state of the road from the Woolbhed to Waitahunu over the Round Hill. The road lias been formed from Ihe Woolshed to within a short distance of the top of the Round Hill, where a few chains have been left untouched ; and thus, all that has been done is rendered comparitively useless. This road is at least 8 miles shorter than that by lylount Stuart, and the expenditure of about £60 would open it up. The matter has been frequently represented to the Government ; yet nothing has been done ; and I was told the other day that some of the carters and others interested in opening up this better and shorter road, talked of doing.it themselves, rather than wait any longer for the Government to do it. The saving of eight miles of cartage would make a material difference in thepvice of every ton of goods carted to the

diggings,

1 perceive that the inhabitants "of Jrlawksbury have recently petitioned the Government to proclaim it a township. I think that it is very probable that a susiiliu- request will shortly be made by the inhabitants of Melton. There are many useful acts and regulations that only apply to townships which are much required here, and the 'dimensions and .importance, "of this rising township, are quite sufficient to justiiy the Government in making it legalry what it is in reality—a township. The Bridge End hotel which was recently destroyed by lire is being re-built. The New Presbyterian Church has also been commenced.

[How is it that Tokomairiro is excluded from the district recently proclaimed as being within the operation of the" Weights and Measures Oidinance Amendment Act, 1862." The boundaries of the district just shutout the township of Melton.