PORT ALBERT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) April 4.

Daily Southern Cross, 11 April 1868, Page 3

PORT ALBERT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) April 4.

Some months since, a petition, signed by a large majority of the settlers of this district, was for* warded to the Superintendent, requesting that the South Oruawharo district be proclaimed under the Highways Act. No reply has since been received — not even has the receipt been acknowledged. In the meantime the only road between two important parts of the settlement has been impassable, , until last week, when a body of settlers, to the number of thirty-eight, took the matter into their own hand?, and gave two days each in the way of clearing 1 , ditching, and erecting culverts, and by this means some six miles of road leading to Te Wheau have been put into a tolerable skate of repair. Last Wednesday was the d«y fixed for the show of utoek and produce, but, owing, probably to the state of the weather for some days previously, also to the fact that many of the settlers had given a third of . previous week. on. the road, very little interest was taken in it. so that on the whole the. show may be termed a failure. There was but little stock sho.wn, Mr. Elliott taking prizes for working bullocks, yearling heifers, and calf ; F. Edger, foe milch cow ;>, G. Plummer, for heifer in calf ; F, Edger, foifaow with pigs. In produce thera was nothing worth enumerate ing. Judges : Mr: Brown,, Te Arai'j Mesirs. Dibble and Cutfoith, Oruawharo. The Rev. Mr. Worker.gave a lecture in connection with- the Literary Club en Friday eveningt-rsubjeot, "Law and Lawyers!" Great and frequent complaints are made about; the irregularity and; uncertainty 'of .the arrival ofj that portion of oar mail. coming by Helensville. iSßhe mail is supposed to leave; Auckland, on morning, reaching .BejensviUeithe same night » <jet, notwithstanding this, the mail t never. reaches jEtort Albert in' r less than seven, frequently eight jamdonine, iaya, after, causing a jbhree, weeks', course 4&ipq«t with Auckland ; while, the paper* are some tejudamj aid when received, you wiil,flpnfer afttvour onfthtt lettlershere if you would cause the Ghief-^ostinaater kt Auckland tg be, mj|de M s>w:are , o£ rthfiii*lutac.-M irhioh the mails wee delivered at Port Albert.