NORMANBY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 178, 28 November 1881, Page 2

NORMANBY.

{from otjb, own correspondent.)

I hear that the road leading from here to the bridge over the Waingongoro, through Mr. Caverhill's paddock, has been completed, with two slight exceptions, which, however, go a great way toward rendering the whole work useless. At the top of the hill there are about two chains left without any work done, and the same at the bottom- of the first cutting, and as the land in each place is very pig-rooted and uneven, it would hardly be safe for a dray or trap with heavy top load to travel it. Five pounds would be amply sufficient to put this matter right, and as men will shortly be at work on the Mawhitiwhiti road close by, the opportunity might be taken of having this small job done at the same time, and thus enable people to obtain the full benefit of the money which has already been spent.

The Maoris have turned up this morning in great numbers, and do not seem particularly cast down by the Parihaka fiasco. They do not seem quite as hard up as was imagined, though certainly not rolling m riches ; and for the rest, are as noisy, demonstrative, cheerful, and lazy as if John Bryce were a myth, and Te Whiti himself one of the Biblical prophets he is so fond of quoting. Nov. 28.