BUSH NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7739, 20 April 1896, Page 2

BUSH NEWS.

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Danhvxbkb, April 18,

Now that Parliament will meet shortly in Wellington, for the third and last time, the tenure of office being dissolved at the end of this session through tha effluxion of time, a general election of membtTM for the new Parliament will take place iv due time. Several candidates are already on the warpath. Mr George Hunter, I lirar, has luid down the gauntlet ogainst all comers in the Waipawa electorate with

good hopes to be returned ou this oooasion. Mr Charles Hall, the present member, is also staading for this electorate, and is expected to meet his constituents of the distriot in Danevirke Town Hall at an early date, to render an ecoouut of his stewardship during the last two sessions. Great improvement in tho sawmiiling business in the neighborhood of Danevirke has taken place. Isince the Hawke's Bay Timber Company syndicate bursted up, some of the mills whioh had reoeived but very few orders previously for a long time back are now quite full up with orders. In addition there is at tha same time a satisfactory activity in the building trade in and around Danevirke. Half-a-dozen of respectable sized residences are now in hand, chiefly in the suburbs A long "ew" street has juct lately beon finished, fcotn High street toward tho Mangutera river, through .-iobJohns and Co 'a property, lately cut up and sold. Another parallel street of tho same length ia being formed on the boundary line between Meßsra Kobjohns aud Co.'s and Messrs Knight Brothers', a continuation of .allatdioe street. Before loug it is contemplated that several buildings will be ereoted iv theee streets. Good roads—aud bridges over the Tapuata creek —(iro now übout beiug completed, whioh will afford a needed access to the new settlement opened up to the west of Danevirke,

Thoee useful works under the ablesuporvieiou of Mr A. Gilmour, engineer for Waipawa Oounty Council, aro the outcome of the expondituro of tho £1750 borrowed for tho purpose b/ tho proprietors of the now settlement. Tho lata tplendid rains which fell in tha distriot produced a very beneficial chaugo over all our pastoral uud rural lauds, aa the grass ia growiug most luxuriantly.