WAITAKERE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3939, 7 April 1870, Page 4

WAITAKERE.

(frojf our own correspondent.) The great changes that have taken place here during the last three months have had a most beneficial, and, it is to he hoped,lasting, effect upon the district. There are now some 60 or 70 men employed in the erection of the flax-mill, roadmakmg, &c., and this addition to our population has, of coui^e, enabled the settlers to di&po^e of their pi o•luce with greater advantage to themselves than would follow the adoption of the old custom of forwax cling it to Auckland. The difficulties the owner has had to encounter have been many, but under the piesent able management matters are progressing most favourably. The mill, a ftne building SOfb. longby36ft. hi ■« ldfck, is all but completed, and the clam,fl inning, and "\\ heel are well under way. A tramway from the landing-place on the Waitakeie river to the mil], a distance of one mile, is now being laid down, and will, in all piobabihty, be completed within a month A heavy p'eto •? woik -u.i^ completed last week, namely, that oi making the liver a sutticient depth to enable a, loaded punt to come up fiom the Maoii settlement to the old landing-place. All who v.ne engaged on the woik aie now on i the sick list, w ith the exception of one man. 1 toigot to state that the mill as being eiected on hnd leased from Mr. .T. S. KJIy, and v>hioh i^ well adapted t> xho purpose, though the water-pom r h beins> bi ought fiom a distance of about holt 1 a xmle. The green fax, of A\hich tlieie is i au immense quantity on the (mid leased, v, ill I have to be carted to the liver, thci? placed on punts loved by a %nv.»ll stoamei 1 , and takon oil to the landing place, and thence by faiimway to the mill. When manufactured and ready for transit to town, it will bo caiiied up the «fceep ascent hmvedudely faeirg the vlver by nieaiw of a >\ iro tiarnvray ; by (Si ay to l'\rrle>'s L'vteV, and from thoi-e'to Auckland I)-' omit-r, Ihe diving s.he 1 *vill bo 'up^.lxel v'i'U hc.t u atov pipe, so that uvon i,uc will i.c trken to gaavd aqnu^t tho dwnpne?'"? to which the stufi is so liable. The enterprising Uttsly shown has had good effect upon aomc of our old settlers, several new houses heing now in course of erection to i ©place the old - fashioned domiciles. Tt is to bo hoped that when complete the seniors- will set a good example to the jnn.or members of onr society, and take unto themselves wives. As an instance of the angel visits of the fair sex to Ihn neiglibourhord, I may mention that the advent of a J a dy a few diys since ci cated the mosb mtiavao asloms-hmoni, and delighc. The cateipillai thi^ year have destroyed a largo quantity of grass, moie so than has been known to have been the case for several years past. Any minister of religion who could manage to pay us an occasional visit would recerve a warm welcome ; Divine service on the Sabbath might better enable us to remember the day of "the week.