TOKOMAIRIRO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 364, 19 February 1863, Page 5

TOKOMAIRIRO.

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In n late Ic'tor I allnbl to shi probability \ of a Cricket Jl-it-h, h^twe^n r«)p;>tun'v» nnd TokomniriiM tiki:^ pi ie?. Tan glail thnt. 1 cm now state tint tho noecssnrv nrransjoi«c;its lor the match have h.'en conipl- toil, and tho day fixeJ. Tiio wickets ire to bo pi'c'icil at ha!f-pa< ten o'clock on Tu^tliy lu-xt, the 22n.l instant, on ths ground si k: n'ly placed nt the disposal of th-' Club, by .T.ihn Dewe, Esq. In tlie evening, thj memb.Ts of the Tokomairiro Club will en'ertnin th.-ir oppo'icnt^ at dinner, at Goodali's Hotel. If the weather is propitious, 1 expect that tho field of contest will be gra:c:l by the press-ijc of a Urge number of ladies and other spectators.

On Fiiday night last there was a severe tincli of frost, \vhic > lias much injured t!ie potatoe crop. Indeed, except in ai\ w sheltered situations, the i'nrthcr growth of tin's valuable root is entirely clucked, and as it imfirtunattly happens that mo<l of the farmer* iivtliis n-.-uh'iorli ioI were rafiier late in uettinjr in tlu'ir potatoes I a>» i-ipato tha" they will be very scare, and onsequ-jntlydear this season.

A serious fire, resulting in th- totil _destruction of -Mr Josejili Lain,^s_ dwellinghouse, took place on Saturday evjnir.g. Tlie hou<e wns a largo new wooden erection, into which Mr Lainy- h,id only romived about three weeks ngo/ Tlie fi:-c is suppos'd to have been caused bY his servant having thrown out some live ciud -rs aniO'i^st sun.- ashes, which she foo'ishlv threw in the vicinity of some shaving*. "O >inj to the fearful nij-.id'ty with which the tire completed th;- work of destruction, it wa< f.uiiid imr>os ible to sivo anything from the hon«p. j\lr Lainjr was absent at, the time, and I believe that the house was ■not insured.

A number of jrentlemen down Tierc contemplate petting' up nn nMntoiir dramitic perfornnTi'ce, in nid of the L'incnslii'c and "Scottish relief fund. A\'hetlier t'aoy wiil he titile to carry o\U their i.itoirion rennins to ho sren, hnt F >Wnk that it is extremely prob-.iblo that they wi'l sud-pcd in d<vnjr?o. A now lu-nncli <>f inihotry lias rcccinlyix-cn in TokommrrA. ariti i^e wiiich hi'lx f;iir to become ot'co-:siOoral>le iinp.vr.vmee. i allmlc tf> the 1c Imonsjory anil Avoolscouring 1 csffib!i*h:n in voe^iitly coctcd hy Alo«sin nntl tV 'f ho snnplo of wfiol whioh met with -so trnioli coii^ide'sHon nt tho hinils of the jinicys of tl>o Tjiio i A^ricnVtmlSWv. wms from s'lvir o-tal^Wiwcn" ? n.nl 1 am in-^ formed th*t Vinoo that a l^'go qn-»niity of Co.\i linn S to " t;vt «i>"'