WHANGAREI JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 228, 26 September 1893, Page 2

WHANGAREI JOTTINGS.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Whangarei, Monday. Mr Marshall, of Marshall and Sons, is calling tenders for a substantial dwelling house, and several othera are bulling about the township.

Nearly the whole of the earthwork in connection with the formation of the Hikurangi railway is finished, but no start Las yeb been made ab ballasting.

The spring has fairly set in, and farmers have for some time past been busy in getting their crops in.

The Great North Road has during the past forbnighb been unpassable for wheeled traffic between Hikurangi andKawakawa, being simply a sea of mud and bog holes, and has been positively dangorous inplaces. Much satisfaction haß been manifested at the plain manner in which one of your leading articles of recent date set' forth the facts in regard to the state of northern roads, and it is to be sincerely hoped that your advocacy will be the moans of romodying their present condition. You have the hearty thanks of evory settler in the North for your action, and they trusb to your advocating same until remedied.

Operations at the Ngunguru coal mines are still progressing favourably, and tho coal maintains its superior quality, and tho demand ir increasing with tho outpuf. Some of the Hikurangi coal owoai-e are negotiating to havo eiding'i pub Id kj winect with tho main lino when ewattJatod, and in one vaso work to oonnoob :s fu pro-; gross. Owing tv> Me rapid incroaso in '.i>o lild o! tho Whanparei township, bho qneatiens of wator snpply and drainage will spaodiiy require attention. The Town Board will ties bo able to grapple with it, as thoir funds would he totally inadequate, uad baforo anrihlns deucito can be dono a boroniih i wffl htm ho "»e toraiad.