Roxburgh.

Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 28

Roxburgh.

A seasonable opposition has reduced the coach fares between Lawrence and Koxburgh to something like reasonableness, and made it -but a trifling expense for Dunedin residents to visit a locality with one of the best climates in the South Island. Koxburgh is fast becoming famous as a resort for invalids. The fame is well deserved, for those I know who have resorted to the district with this object in view have been considerably benefited. There is good private accommodation for such visitors who do not like staying at hotels. I have great faith in the future material prosperity of the place on account of the variety of its resources. There is farming, sheep runs, fruit-growing, and mining. Some of the most hopeful-looking gold mines are situated there. As for fruit-grow-ing, Eoxburgh stands foremost in the country, surpassing even Nelson both in quality and productiveness. No doubt people's occupation has something to do in forming their character. Thus shoemakers are invariably argumentative, and generally Eadicals in politics. Districts in which fruit-growing is cultivated I have noticed possess a contented and happy population. This is the case with the people north of Auckland, and it is also the case with those of Roxburgh. Certainly there are those who could not be very happy in the conditions of the Teviot district. Different circumstances produce happiness to different individuals. A doctor is happy when people are ill, a lawyer when they are in trouble, and an undertaker when they are dead. And these have not much cause for felicity in Eoxburgh ; for there is very little sickness and very little quarrelling among the people. All seem like one family.