MAUNGAKARAMEA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2901, 16 May 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)

MAUNGAKARAMEA.

crOBJC A"D PLOOD3.-GH.KAT I AND ST.I P. GBSAT tath Br dkowkixg.—the canvass of BO AD BOARD. rißOsr oce own corbesfondent.] Strict has been -visited by a storm of TDI "l a"fortnight's duration. The wind and D . L lllc d to contend for mastery in altcrrßin " lo efforts, and then by desperate wrest- ■ The one but forth its fury in bringing I'°=" . , fS and branches ; the other did its d 0 M rai-e floods to sweep away tho wreck. t < tb«tanding the wind, the atmosphere was 'siive and almost suffocating, making one oppr?" 'j au aUllP i; 0 f (in; typhus peculiar old reason in India. Grateful must i° „ n CT ervoue who loves to " trace tho '""I- of nature up t° Nature's Grod," when eveninj of Saturday, and far into the Cn i t we were visited by a storm of thunder 1' i'flitiii'i"- Xhe I'shtuing was broad sheet • it, in" which appeared to spread itself I --/through space. Sunday and to-day ! lin '! been f>» e warm ' healthy days—tho wind , 'x! the sun bright, but hi pluie, being r is vindicating the prerogative of the last- word, which she mates both h- 3 .id felt in true April showers by no linht. A landslip, which has displaced "the mountain Maiharabiti some lninof tons of earth, is one of the elTects of "liearv and long-continued rain. The r •■uiitain'is the property of Mr. Phillips, of 4u'klaiui, and contains fine building stone, ' ",i, 0 f which should ere now hare contrito beauty of Auckland's buildings ; the deposit after rain of a fine black s i - inee having much the appearance of ironam disposed to think the mountain -•■.•am 5 metal of some kind. Whether the Curtain objects to the creed of its present or to the .K-eleet with which he treats I cannot sir, but a very large portion of Jv, placed mass has shown au uumistak-Iv-'-'cteriiiinatioii to remain no longer the Mr. Phillips, by spreading itself ever til.' pa-ldoek of the adjoining settler ; and VM'ie rents and figures in other parts of the then- can be little doubt but much rr'e"will follow very speedily. As Mr. p"r;ns does lH't improve his Maungakaramea 'jrtv, its erv.it ie freaks may be to him a J-'jtVr \'f imiiiVerenee, but it must be far T.: with the unwilling recipient of the mountain. Ah-eady a portion of grass it covered with a kind of sandy grit, mid a In ass threatens to precipitate itself iuto f'* llnest an 1 most productive garden in the "•t.-i'e*parish. Myself and five others have stolen road across private property ""'■-'•l'vus laMiisli 1) has now entirely closed to us. (V* 'Old prviier is for a long distance without -T.'a horse "or fool track, and whilst the i-lt"w3T business of the parish remains in the the talented individuals who achieved " s s D ] olu ;ij success last year, it is much to it'fl-are-i no improvement will be perceptible. Iffi or three of the above five settlers have been 'oc'ated here since 1559, a£id our proper read is in such a condition that the present trustees cannot find it, and we are now without snv road whatever. " We "have lost the services of the p.s. Chal-Ip-jjr, and a notion seems somewhat prevalent tTre now, that before the Government grants s tabsidv to a:iv steamboat proprietor, it -'•ou'.i s'atisfv itself that the boat which it p:oii:ses to 'patronise should be up to the nsrk. "We are vet waiting for the Lady Bow-en and our AVeeki.t of the 19th, but received letters some days back, which left Auckland by the cutter'after the departure from that port of the Lady Bowen. I au: sor.-v to report the death by drowning of a son of Mr. of Masonville, YTaikiki. Theb:v was about ten years of age, and went to cut firewood near the creek, and when sought fur wa- found to have fallen into the creek, and was quite dead when taken out. This shouid be a eiutiou to every settler to aibw no child over eight or nine years of age to remain ui:a v le to swim. At that early age swimtiti.':;: seetas to be most easily acquired — to iiis::v at that age it seems almost as natural Si to yjiaig frogs,—in till cases is most easily and. whence once acquired, is an inraiuabie adjunct to health, a source of ex-;-e!'eLt enjoyment, and often the means of iivisj valuable lives. The neglect of so valuer an art, within the reach of everyone at lithe or no cost, is highly censurable. John Williamson, K=q., M.H.K., has paid a visit to the district on an electioneering tour.

I: is much to be regretted that some appoint- j Blent of a lucrative character has not fallen to , the lot of Mr. Williamson which might have ] Extinguished his desire for the Superintendencv. i! r. Williamson's talents and earnest desire for tiie public weal are acknowledged on all hands, but the province should be determined to have no one for Superintendent but an ami-provincialist. Provincialism is rotten to the core—it stinks in the nostrils. Away with it '—it is a dead and rotten incubus. Ail that we owe it is burial, —and everyone slsou!:: je agreed to secure as. Superintendent the man who wiil conduct this funeral in the most economical, anc!, with due regard to aecencv, in the most expeditious manner.