Waipawa.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6034, 29 December 1890, Page 2

Waipawa.

|OWN OOEBKSPONDENT.] ,*t has been a very quiet Christmas hereabouts, with fine weather a-d entire freedom from accidents and offences.

We are to have a lptter-oarrier, who will make a daily delivery in the centre Of the township from tho New Tear, H. Bone, a local boy, having been selected out of several applicant?, and his duties will also inolude conveyance of mails between the post offioe and station.

Mr Limbnck has made a lucky discovery. A few months ago he purchased a, large portion of rhoßowden estate, including the woolshed, which stands on what looks'to the passer-by the dryest part of the surrounding country. The other day Mr Lim brick sank a well near the woofahed siriltini? through papa for nineteen ..feet' when the workman oame to shingle, and the water came in so quickly that he had to escape before he had time to clear out the bottom. Next morning the well ran over at the mouth, and still continues to do ao It is now eonjeoturod that artesian water may be got on the Kaikora plain A neighbor sank three wells, one, beinsr 4fi feet, but was unsuooeasful in gettinsr wat«r Notwiih.tending the dry eeasonXo'i. plenty ot feed on the Oero side of the Tuki! tuki horn Patangata to the coast. A hre broke out some days airioe in th* vicinity ..f Gundiie's mill, abont -.outhof Makatokn, and has already He conMderablo m.scbief.having eonaumedtftj tram and bridges leading from thefownsni^ •les-uoynig the bush in _Ju_s_]l'« -T_!» hounding Hakatoku. • ttl * BMU « R>«d,