HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 520, 15 May 1880, Page 2

HAWERA.

[_ FR 0 M OUR CORRESPONDENT .] Rain, rain, and nothing but rain during this week ; yet not quite so bad as at Now Plymouth, when the road from Stratford to Norman by has been impassable for horses. Mr V onng’s coach has travelled each way every day, ami, considering the weather, kept remarkably good time. I may hero express regret at the loss to the road and the general public by the retirement of that well known whip, Mr J. During. I have had the pleasure of diiving with him many times, and can well understand the universal regret expressed, and hopes for success in Ids new, enterprise. I also hear of other changes likely to take place whereby we shall lose another, genial and popular driver. Another Contract for about a mile and a half of gravelling from the Stony River end, is called for by Mr Hnrsthonse, the engineer. As Diphtheria seems to bo attacking so many persons around Carlyle, I might suggest, during the absence of a proper doctor in your midst, that the following remedy, which I - clip from a Sydney paper, be used. Take some lime and slake it ; hold the patient s month over the same, so that he may inhale the fumes. In case it is found successful, give the patient some lime water. The writer, whom I know personally, can vouch that it cured the only case in which he tried it.

A man named Walter Willoughby, alius George Dux, was brought up today before Captain Wilson, J. P., and remanded to New Plymouth, on a charge of stealing a chisel. The Road Contracts on the Plains arc progressing very favorably, the gravel being good, and pretty easy of access. I trust before another winter is over we shall be able to drive to New Plymouth by the coast track, over a well-gravelled road ; and only those who have travelled by the old coast road, particularly in the winter, will be able 10 appreciate the difference. I have beard some statements about certain A.C.’s at Opuuake and a Maori woman, to which von referred in the Maid, and the reports reaching ns here arc so disgrace nl that some official action must surely follow, if.not already, started. There is nothing Sporting to chronicle, the weather being too bad this week for shootisls to do their baggings.