WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4300, 9 May 1885, Page 3

WAIROA.

(j-ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) v May 7. MUX W. Butler, travelling agent for the Government Life Insurance Department is now hero canvassing for new business. He is accompanied V>- Lγ. Dukers. On the road up from Napier, some heavy weather was experienced, and the cuttings in some places were very slippery On the Moeangiangi hill Mr Butler advised Dr. Dakers to get off the horse and lead him, but he declined, and a few moments afterwards the animal fell, and rolling over the doctor caused him to sustain a fracture ot the collar-bone. Mr S. Locke, M.H.R., has for some time past been in communication with Mr M'Kerrow with reference to the survey of a road from Lake Waikaremoana to Rotorua, and it has now been decided to have the line laid off at once. The Bank of New Zealand is inviting tenders for clearing, ploughing, and harrowing 200 acres of the Awainati estate, lately owned by R. D. Maney, deceased. A concert is to bo held at Mohaka next week in aid of the Football Club. The Town Board met on Monday night, ,and among other things passed the folio wresolution :—" That the Bourd is of that it is desirable in the interests of the town district that the piece of land known as Lainbton Square, lying between Apatu street, Queen street, Mansfield, street, and Outrain street be vested in the Town Board for the purposes of (together with the reserves adjoining, already vested in the Board, marked' B and C respectively) a public reserve, and that the necessary steps be taken to have this carried out." Thereserves in question and the plots to be applied for under the bill are very conveniently situated at Spooner's Point, on the confines of the township, and the whole will make a nice park. May 8. The late bad weather has destroyed nearly the whole of Kopu-road, and " Poyzer's Fully" (for so the willow planting done by him for the Board last year has been called) has now become a thing of the past. The suggestion made in the Telegraph some time ago that a union of the local bodies to stay the encroachments will bo necessary, is still further demonstrated by the late encroachments of the river. If the Town Board and County Council do not do something in this matter, I fancy and can see a River Board and another rate sticking out. The tendering for public works at the last meeting of the Council was very close, only a difference of a few shillings in most cases, v MArayulditional sum of £4200 lias been applied for, under the Road and Bridges Construction Act, for the Wairoa bridges.