HAVELOCK.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1938, 20 August 1886, Page 2

HAVELOCK.

We arc gL 1 to notice that tho Goranincut arc recognising tho importance of establishing an overland bail service ber.Wren B'enheim and Nelson. This distri.it has been pUienUy waitin'; for Ihe crumbs, which fall from tho rich man’s lab’c, and it is to be hoped that \vc shill get a fair size 1 one at hist. The Let is tint un'i! a few months ago ovcrlrtu c I'mnnuieat im; with No l on '.V.s: echini 1,, tin' o d iir.dg- trick nv"!' the NJ.Ui'i.D tnpu. whii'li, alter the first trip, p'*cs2M:*-l but tew Mltuo'i'ms lor traveller.:. cm.:-

fijunaily yeir after j ar tho number h.;c, m ; le s, everyone going hy strainer?, un'i! la-t summer, when the Pcloms B'iiige and ronl through the Rii v... opeueq. It was sqrprinng llGii h'uv, - quickly the number of trav- liars increase 1 and the iucrease would h-ivo eoutiin, I, if the Government had me a'le I Ihe portions so badly needing it. Wn it a pity Sir Robert Stout is not taking anotliw trip through at present with the Minister of Public Works, who would surely lake pi.y on tho district, and find a lew hundreds from one of ihe holes iu Ihe p-ildii: purse, to render travelling somewli it lev, tedious. Eew of tliose .in aiitijoiity sm.iii to recognise the great length of miin roadway actually thrown by the Government, uudt.r Llie supervision cf the Pe'.orus Road Board, whetho. they wee willing to undertake the duty or not. They have from Waikakaho and Mr Davies’, about (i miles, frim W-ii an river to Havelock, 18 miles, und llivrloek to Rai Saddle, another fid n Ic, tin t. from Hate lock to the Grove l| mibs,

Canvasstown to De-'P Creek (1} mi i-, m I from the Pelorus Bridge to lie mga. 11 miles—altogether say 70 miles of md .v.i v. About2s miles of that distance is .lo'iiWy unformed,and about 40 miles are wiri o it metal, and all this is expected to he kept in good order from the small sum: a Hu Board’s disposal, whereas, the G> ':>■ ment should have scheduled a grant of nt least LIOOO an 1 opened up the r-’-iM-''-tween Kdlu/n and To l M There is one thing the Giver ica'. seem very liberal with and tMi is giviug local bodies cx’ra work ri '■

ever tiny can, tni l this spool ii ti i n Sir J ihus Vouel tikes credit for. I' l Hansard No. 21, page 210, he say* t E Government are gra hially and surelI think, e-uiyipg out the policy of dtvm tralixa’ion—a policy of tlirowf ig lioi-na duties upon the local bodies tiirauglr tho colony—a policy of throwiuj tip'*' 1 larg-r nu nbtT of human beings a larger arirtunt of work —Why dnes’nt lie thr . v a la gcr amount of coin alsi ? Mining matters on the Wakruirn'ina a e very quief, the wet weather paying wm go cotGtaqt recently as to almost <W)U any outside work; and until th-tin weather sets in, no atu-m t will to work any of the large liver claims The Kaituna portion of the D -or; 1 - especially about the Okuamin. by. threugh our enterprising sa« mdler. Mr John lforntiy, made rapid Mr; Iu•. fortable homesteads are rapidly ink :rg the place of old si sb cOtj->g *. Mrs Hamilton his erected a large Temper in’ - lintel, and if one can judge by the si--' 1 i ) t ( arii, the inv/arj coriitoi.ts for tra/v ! :U iil'c to be <;b‘ajued at most r* * tates, and Hie new hajl recently bmi'- “- 1 (ptud sip at considerable expenre John Dicks >n isst'-r'ing evil nu :; f solid the «ILtrict is <«* iUi - The stramer Hauraki, from We!' n:''"arrived oil Monday ab.-ut 8 a.-n., ■ u about 20.0')0 feet of birc'i pD ukm { the Ofiirciiee bridge, lauded i; at tho yesterday, arrive 1 iu ,\Y<dhng‘ou and sails, from lint port Havelock, to take the remainder of ti.na ■ for the bridge. This kind, of conn etiuj works pebpje up, and a regu'u-' , would be a gr< at b on” to fi; r -‘ u.'jl * esp.cialy for settlers in the Sound,