WHANGANUI.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3972, 16 May 1870, Page 6

WHANGANUI.

We have files of the Chronicle to the 12th. - On the Patea road the work is beins proceeded with, satisfactorily. Tenders for the erection of the bridges across the Kai Iwi and Okehu streams have been accepted. The trignoraetrical survey of the Manawatu new block is progressing satisfactorily, and the Crown Lands Commissioner thinks he may be ready to bring 20,000 or 25,000 acres of the land into the market by September or October next. An immense potato grown at Mr. Holmes's Bush Farm, Rangitikei, is exhibited in Mr. A, Mason's window, Taupo Quay. It weighs 441b., and ia supposed t° be the largest ever seen in Whanganui, A native meeting is now going on at Horowhenua, to which Maoris iroin many parts of the West Coast, and from the Wairarapa and the Hutt, have gathered. The Government is represented by Mr. Knox, from 0 baki, qnd Mr. Young, of the Native Office. The subjects und^r discussion are very numerous : embracing the settlement of. the Manawatu question, the extension o.f roads and the telegraph through native land 1!, and the relative positions of the two races in general.