Wk understand a number of the old identi ties are talking about holding a social gather ing in Lawrence at an early date. The idea is a very happy and appropriate one, and such a gathering would beyond doubt prove of very great interest. The Gabriels rush was in Jnne,lß6l— about thirty-four years ago : a stir ring and eventful period in the history not only of Tuapeka but of the colony— and as there are still many living not only in the district but outside of it who could talk pleasantly of those golden days and the incidents tbey fur nish in such abundant store, such a gathering would not fail to be both interesting and in structive. Then there are the men of a later date who went out and subdued the wilderness and laid the land under contribution, they could tell such experiences as might be profit able in stimulating the delicate-fibred, State coddled farmers of to-day to more determina tion in dealing with the very much modified difficulties of their position. As yet the pro posed gathering has not got beyond the stage of preliminary discussion ; but wo hope to see it soon take a practical shape.
