LAKE GEORGE AND OREWERA.

Western Star, Issue 31, 13 June 1874, Page 6

LAKE GEORGE AND OREWERA.

[PUOM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]

No doubt you will think your correspondent has retired into oblivion. The fact is—and you will, "I am sure, concur —that it is difficult to manufacture news when you have no material to work on. In a local of your issue of the 23rd ult., I saw that some bad wb'skoy had been perambulating the town. No doubt of it; and you would gay so had you been at the Kaik here, I was there expecting a parcel in the boat, and when the Maoris arrived the effects of the whiskey had not subsided. I enquired for my parcel, and all they could articulate was something like the following :—"■ Ili-hic-physic ! —bie-Rocko !—hiepea hi-hi-hic-Lyon!” Photographer this they pronounced man liking man, I put the question again, when the same harangue took place. Being of a nervous temperament, I thought it boat to make, tracks, or perhaps I might have been towing a seal-hook homo with me. The. bays are all sluicing away j their spirits have been up to a very high pitch lately, owing to havin'; a good supply of water, and, being of an amphibious nature, which ground sluicers are or ought to be, the rain supplied them to their hearts’ content —they dabbling about like young ducks in it.

I am glad to see by a letter in your issue of the 23rcl that some one it agitating about, the inexhaustible supply of timber there is of various kinds from Longwood to Orcpuki, and says he will stake his veracity on it. He coidd stake his vrhoo body on the truth of what he states, and show facts’ that would speak for themselves. He seems rather doubtful, however, about the groves of totara ; but they are about, too, although he may not have come across them. I hear the Aparima bridge will soon be completed for traffic. Oh, ye bachelors of Riverton, here is a chance for you to alter your condition in life! I would advise you to form a deputation to wait on the Mayor and suggest that, a promenade or lovers’ walk be made from Dallas's to the flagstaff point. He will, no doubt, refer you to the “indefatigable” Town Clerk—who is an “expert” in these matters —to arrange for some seats to be erected, so that lovers with their intendeds by their side ‘can sit and gaze on the silvery stream of the Aparima river buffeting with the mighty ocean, and whisper all those 1* soft nothings into each others' ears, I can fancy how it will harmonise with the occasion, Let me advise you all to practise a few songs — such as “ Remember me,” “ What are the wild waves saying ? " “ Love not,” &e, These songs, together with the romantic scenery beneath and around, will never fail to elicit the murpiur—“Ask papa.” I must stop this game, or you will think I am in love or getting too poetical; but, although shut up in the wilds of a Now Zealand bush, these thoughts occur, bringing with them Reminiscences of the days of yore. Now that it is an established fact that the railway is to come, we have serious intentions of building a few pleasure yachts, so that we can entertain our Riverton friends with a sail on the Dako if they honor us with a visit, Several parties of Chinese about here are fossicking, but do not think it. will suit. John—too muchy bushy. However their room will be better than their company, for what good they are to the country ?

I saw a letter from Mr. Hirst, relative to Kirktop and Thomson, being entitled to a reward for jliscovering gold first hero, and he is right in what he states. The other applicant must he pnder a. delusion that he ever discovered gold before Kirkton and Thomson hero—in fact from what I know of the party I question if he could toll gold from blucstone, My opinion is, and I speak from local knowledge that the above party pptitled to the reward if any is to be given, they both found and extracted it from the ground.