Tairua.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1977, 6 May 1875, Page 2

Tairua.

(FEOM A COBBESPONDENT.) -

" ' '. May sth. ' The rain and the traffic have played the deuce • with the track—road there is none, and communication has been-sadly interfered with. If something is not done very soon to make a passable road- we shall have to communicate with the Thames by. way of Tairua river and Auckland, as private enterprise has done, more on the Tairua side than the Government have for the Pnriri or Shortland side. Talk about Tairua butter : the track is knee deep in mud of the consistency of butter before'the.water is squeezed out, with the additional inconvenience of roots deeply hidden in the butter —or mud, which are so many snares to bipeds and quadrupeds. ■ I saw Air J. B. Macdonald, solicitor, making his way over the range. He reminded me of Christian in "Pilgrim's Progess," as depicted with load on his back and staff in hand making . his way. through the Slough of Despond. You know that the d is said to take care of his own, so I suppose Mr Mac has got to hia destination, wherever that may be, but as all travellers do not claim to be protected by His Satanic Majesty, perliaps some one will be buried one of these days; "and when we have to sit in " crooner's quest" on some Government official there, is a chance of the track being improved. We shall see. Mr Warren, baker, has lost a raluablo horse—not in the mud, but over a cliff. He left the animal in charge of a man here, and it (the horse, not the man) slipped over a precipice 250 feet sheer fall. The Devil's Backbone is a pinch —you bet. Several parties are out prospecting, and if tho general feeling may be taken as an index to the field, there is every reason to believe, success will attend them. Scott Hunter and party ars getting tools up, preparatory to commencing work. I> hear that the old Puriri Dawn of Hope claim has been taken up. Good crushings were once got out of this ground. The new owners purpose sending quartz to town for a trial crushing—that is if they can send it, which is doubtful/ unless at great expense.

(feom anothee coeeesfonpent)

Tuesday.