NORTHERN WAIROA : HEAVY FLOOD, GUM TRADE, ETC.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4847, 10 March 1873, Page 2

NORTHERN WAIROA : HEAVY FLOOD, GUM TRADE , ETC.

Tiir. lato heavy raina, together with the spring tides, have caused the Hood to nso higher than has been known a long tuno. At Aratapu work had to be stopped at tho sawmills, and at Mr. Thompson's flax-mills, on account of tho water coming up and extinguishing the iiroH, fouling tho straps, machinery, A.c. Moth tho Aratapu and To Kopuiu nulls aro now in full work ; tho former, which was idle at tho boginning of summer for want of material, has now quite an abundanco of logs from the upper bush, some 400 or (JOO having boon carried out by tho late frcshos. — The gum trado is now (|infco a dead letter in this distiict, on account of the low pi ices ; there aro very few diggeis, and of thoso few many aro holding back m hopes of an advance, and othus aio looking aiound for other employment. — Our enckotors loft yesterday for Matakohe in tho schooner ' Sea Broc/o' iu ordor to play tho return match l>et\vecn tho Wairoa and Matakoho Clubs. The following Knights of tho Willow lopresont us in tho content, winch is to cjunneuoo this day : — MesBrs. K Mitcholaon (captain), W. A Mamiior. II. JoImHon, \V. Johnson, Dull, Mitchell, Jluhiuson, Masclicld, J r.iton, Christian, Stood, Mitchelson. — Tho (iovernmont of New Zealand in general, and tho L'ost-oflioo authorities in particular, are a most, unconscionable tuno "considoung' 1 anything lcquired by us. In November last, in accordance with a lusolution passed at a public meeting, a nieuioiial, signed by nearly ovcry huusoholdoi, mill-owner, storo kocper, and postmaster on tho liver, was foi warded to tho (Jencral Post-odice, Wellington, praying for tho establishment of a money-order ollico at ouo of our post-ollioos. Tlio memorial was acknowledged, aud the matter said to bo "under con adoration," j and I suppoao it is Btill under con&idciation, for wo havo heard nothing further on tho subjoct. Tho want of a money-order ofhoo ia daily folt, and I know of one portion w ho has a large sum of money iu notes, gold, &c. , tho proceeds of a sale of property, at pioscnt in his possession, which ho is most anxious to romit to a distant paib of the province, but is uuablo to do so fiom the want (if tho necessary banking or postal accommodation. Surely such a want could bo cabily supplied. — ](Jorrospondeut. ]