TAPANUI (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1596, 24 June 1882, Page 13

TAPANUI (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Juno 20th

Kain commencod to fall on Monday evening, .and continued to descend copiously until Tuesday afternoon, when it clear-id off, and tho "lovely mountain breeze" (to quote a friend's expression) commenced to wait hc*lth and vivjour down upon ut, purify miy »ho air and carrjing»w*y disoAiie. Which latter, by the way, was very nciiea*ary, for since I last wrote our town hau had another visit of typhoid fever. It is, howevor, 1 behove, of a rory mild type, Mid the health ufliccr (Dr. Douglas) apprehends very little dangor of the further spread of tho contagion. It broke out just where the population is doneost, and the doctor very wisely had the patient (a housekeeper »t tho National Bank) removal to a more scolu .cd poj tin iv the town. TIjO health o.licer, in his report to the Borough Council on Monday evening, docs not speak iv coinpliincnUry terms of "the suction in which the fever broke «ut, nor of another new it from which a dr»in flows through the former. He repeats several of his previous recommendation* to the Council, and does not heaitatc to a\y th»t " had these former rccommen 'ations been acted upon, typhoid would nave boon a thing of the p&at." 'I ho recommendation*, amongst which is tho appointment of a public scavenger or diihtnian, tho Council have now decided to have carried out.

Ploughing is lu-injj vlgo ou«ly carried on in all directions Haung succeeded in din|-o.siujr of their pioduco— (fiwn, of courso— at such a.ii advantageous figures this seabw, f.trmoraaio most stnguine with regard to the lctmlt of next year's hirvc-t : too much so° perlni'B. Care, care, my coidial cuidors or the plough and reaper, v what you requite to excrui&o. Tno Atb-"'iO'im Committee have doclde-1 to inako a special effort to obtain money during the winter months. To this end. they have co»imei(ged a. course

' of "winter readings," which entertainments are. c,m1 posed of songs reading, and recitations. The first of tho series was held" on Friday last, and was but poorly patronised, although a very pleasant evening j was spent, the utmost good humour prevailing throughout. More enthusiasm on tho part of the i promoters is necessary if they are to be attended with any satisfactory results No doubt greater I jwins to make the next meeting of the course more interesting to those .attending and c. editable to the promoters will be token. Th'o newly-appomted Church of England minister has already got himself into trouble. A statement made by him at a conversazione which w.vi held by the congrogai ion of his church to weeome him, to th« effect that "lay-readers of tho Episcopal Church were fu moie ministers than the duly ordained clergymen of other denominations, has roused tho lighteous wrath of a correspondent of the Courier. I B»e that twj more persons have written to to-day's paper on tho same subject. To allirni, as ono ot these do, that Mr Wilson's conduct was imlisuieet N, indeed, a veiy mild' expression. It is to be regretted very much, that tho nmttor has takon uuoh a turn ; for. judging from what I can huu-, Mr Wilson ia a very excellent j?entlomaii In a social senso, and is ul»o a jjood pnacho>\ No doubt he sees his error, and regrefs hav.ng made it himself. Charity ! charity ! is what id roiiuired.