WAIROA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3906, 24 April 1877, Page 2

WAIROA.

(FROM OUR OW> T CORRESPONDENT.) Clyde, April 21. "Fantaeuc animis coolcstibus irae." The Daily Telegraph is irate at an expression made use of by the Herald's "Wairoa correspondent in his letter published in the issue of March 28th. There is a certain amount of latitude allowed in the columns of the Press, and of which, even the Telegraph avails itself ; but I still say that there is in and about the township fully 2000 acres of land lying idle — for any land that is permitte d. to grow a crop of toi toi and ti-tree, may certainly be classed as such, even though it be fenced in. As lam not a County Councillor I have not studied the Counties Act, but I imagine that if it weregenerally adopted, it would have the effect of making absentees look better after their own interests. Persons who purchased land in "Wairoa ten years ago at a high price, jiov> t expect ten or fifteen per cent, on their money. What will it be in ten or 20 years time, when they must pay the additional taxes ] The editor of the Telegraph evidently does not think much of Clyde, and, indeed, I fear it will never be anything but the miserable insignificant hole he takes it to be. However, should it ever become something better than that (and such is within the bounds of possibility), it will not owe much of its success to the advocacy of the Daily Telegraph. The state of disrepair into which the inland road to Napier is falling is something to be wondered at. If we are not to have an honorary road inspector, one of the councillors at least ought to ride over the ground, and if he does not require the services Of a surgeon when he arrives, he will certainly move " That a sum of money be expended in repairing the inland road to Napier as far as the southern boundary of the Wairoa County." Several of the culverts and a few small bridges are nothing but a mass of rotten timber on the Napier side of Waikare. In the Mohaka riding there are several bridges in a very dangerous state, and they should be looked to at once. There has been but little done towards improving the township as yet, with the exception of the long-talked of Awatene bridge, a few new drains, and a cutting along the bank of the river near Tururoa. The councillor who promised "to look after the township generally," would, I think, do well to begin. As a specimen of what Wairoa land can produce, in a small way, I may mention there was a bullock killed here a few days ago, and when ready for sale, weighed 10701bs. ; this, though nothing like what the Ahuriri Plains can produce, is very good for Maori land, where so little care is taken to make it productive.