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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1286, 28 November 1857, Page 3

AY i: make the following extract from a letter received fiMin the East Coast:— “ November 19, 1857. “7 u i know that die river is one of Dr. Featlh’lsiod’s boumlarits. it is one of die niosi iroub’. soHie rivers on the Coast. Dr F. has not only not provided a ferry, but has ohs*rnct?d tho establislunei.t of one, and purchased the ia.nci which shou.’d have bi-ou 3 ferry reserve, lie has also, i am infnruied. conirived to get the Mauries i.o vacate die Pahs at and Akiteo, so ihat the public arc deprived of the benefit of canoes, and as this river is only fordable at particular tiincs o! '■be tide, i: is very inconvenient io travel*, rs who are glgh delayed in conse'jiu-n. e. There has recently bi en a fresh io the river which L :s ■ l’» *. v- 1 the channel, and leit a deposit of mud at the ford, and it appears that the new itinerant jiidj:.*. Mr. Dudley 'A are, wa> cressing in c-onpanv wiih h.s Honor, when hi; horse stuck in the mud. .-ind w in some (linger of drowning, whilst his Ju. : yvsbiu had to dhnwuut in ihc river, ;.nd lecoiv- d a <;u» mg which may tend to open his eyes as to m i e.-.-sity of devoting a fracJon of our land revenue tn the improvement of the existing roads, establishment of ferries. &c.”