WAIROA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2004, 21 June 1870, Page 4

WAIROA.

[FROII OUR OWS CORRESrO'DEXT.J June 17. The rain, which ha* fallen duriug the Ja.-t ■ fortnight has made all our roads .i.uddy ; but the road from Hiimm to tho laudiug-plaee ht the rirer, in allitiou to being uiuddv, it -o . frightfully cut ii|> by the carting of the telegraph i>.>-;.- wh:i-!i are being taken to tie ' Thames, thai i! i- in <oine i>l ices almost impassable, in ,-j iu- ill' all the clTorts of our oia liiuhway I huve heard it said that the orainary trailie of the settlers would mit have cut up the road so much in ten years. The substitution of a " road steamer" for the To'hi.-les used in conveying these )>oits would Ik.v_- been highly appreciated by the ratepaveis here.

The firing of our Eifle Provincial prizes came off on the sixth i -. and the firing was considered verv "' an; , highest si/ore being only, I think" 3lT': th " Good firing could scar elv have been t T. " nU ; considering the short notice gi Ten /"', ;- fact that the target had to be removal f' former positionT where the longet ra-!™™t. l:, could be got was -100 yard", to a "i,"' -l : ' K where the necessary range "of 000 va'r.l ' ■' be obtained. I am not aw.ire t!i a t a '.i* ".'' ,A fired at the target since its removal",;'', day of the tiring fur t lie prizes. ! lu - Since the result of tliecrushin:* of t!,*,,,. obtained on the property ot ? Mr -J' 1 ?/ Browuo was published in the llkkald a ' pany has been tunned with the vi.- K '/''* ing thoroughly the place where the Mr,.- " obtained. A goo.l many tuns ut'likekV?' ing stuff have been got oiil. " ' K ' During the last three months tK- vo folks here have been practising dam-iii<.\| aC? nights a week, under the leadership \ u Jenkins. The finUhing ball, a ,„',/• came oft' last Wednesday, nheifilr expressed himself highly suti-licd uith* 1 ".'" progress hi* class ha 1 made.