K ARI OI.

This district i& ab lut to tiko, we hope, a tremendous leap in tie wiy of progress and foremost amongst it 1 miy mention that ths great political mating «it Raglan, which we hope to see be.tv m>i->t important reaults, emanated from the lluapuke end of this important district. It may not ba generally known that Karioi is a district lying directly betweeen Raglan harbour and Aotea, with the picturesque mountain of the same name in its centre, nnd the fine settled district of Ruapuke at the other side. The settlers fit Ruapuke for years pabt have had to go to the town and port of Raglan to get their goods from Auckland, and bring their produce along a road that was longer than they need to travel over. A road near the base of Karioi only voennres opening to reduce the distance one naif, which to some settlers will save as much as twelve miles. Those who know anything of bush life may readily judge what a boon it will be, as well as opening up fresh lands, belongiug to tiie Government, and allow lands long ago purchased to become accessible and occupied. I may state that the laud through which the road pa.v-.83 is of excellent character, heavy bush, and level a great part of tho way. In fact, all who have beeu through it speik most highly of the chatacter of the land. On Monday morning last, Mr T. Mitchell, J. P., chaii man of the Karioi Highway Boaid, accompanied by his fellowtrustees, Mr Thompson, J.P., and Messrs Bree and Huskin, together with that pioneer settler, Mi-T. B. Hill, and Mess;s Liddell and Belluigton, started from tho Ruapuke end, and, after a good march through the bush, succeeded in reachin? the chairman's homestead on the Raglan side, where that gentleman's estimable lady had ready a most sumptuous repast, to which one and all did ample justice. The greater part of this land is really first-class land for settlement, and contaius an uuusiully large quantity of mangeao, cedar, and other valuable timber*, that are only recently comiug into use, and from its proumity to to thepoitthsy must become exceedingly valuable. The chief b trt'ier to tha opening of this road has ahvay.- been the opposition from the natives to tho road going through their lands at the Raglan end of it. This now has been overcome, and thii part of the road has been already surveyed, and the natives are very anxious tha voad should be pushed right through at once, as it will have to go through a largo valuable block of land at the Aote.i end, belonging to them as well, and which they qonteinptate at an early date passing through '

t]i<>ci»uit. Om fiiond WVtnn i> 11 ny in c >ries|joinle»ce with the Niti'c Mini-tei t> c )iiiint'i)ce tl'O w >rk, as it i^ believed Lln> long -i'i>- hi of iliy vv either will have a \ei\ i'ljuiiiiH effect on the native ciop\ aii'l that f" "I w itli thr-.ii will lx> \ery nhort, and cinplnyinent very iipiMirttuio and acceptable. Anotln.il voiy iinport'int consideration in cunni ct.nn with thu mad i^ the e\t"iw 'ii <>f tin- 1> le^raph or teleph me to K.uvhia \i) this i.»iitf>acro-i Aote.i Headn. A f^rcat hi in v ntili'i in.iy be sived, viluNt -tuiiiini; tiei -. through the bu-.h, a-< )u icticed in Ani'Tici, m.iv be utilised, tlnii Munjf I'xpiii'-t 1 both iti distance and number (.i p.ile-. lefjiiiH-d. H'>ue\er, if found Ix'-t to h.ivo ordniaiy poles it c.vi bo doiw, .i-> .ibiniflaiiLO of total a is to be (Jot ■ilon^ tin i>. )'!. I tiu^t <it thu next meeting of din m.,.1 ho.iiil to .something prauti' ill\ '•tulid, and that I may .soon chiciiule tlie .mn.il of many fre->h settlers to out tlwtuct, cmlli «Migag»'fl in developing its it'soiiice-. and iiiciei^inj,' its exports. The "jiMich pnty weie uift at tlio Kaglan sidi* by Mi J'n-.-l, t-urvejor, and Me> is Uiluiour, lYgler, and Vticuc. -(Own Correspondent.)