The Pahiatua Star. (Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891. THE ROAD TO THE EAST COAST.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 6, Issue 565, 27 November 1891, Page 2

The Pahiatua Star. (Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891. THE ROAD TO THE EAST COAST.

Thk County Council do not apparently attach any hniiortauce to the mattor of opening-up communication between Fahiatna and the coast. The majority of the Councillors being engaged in fanning pursuits, theiquestion of giving facilities for bringing tratFic into the township is of little or 7no interest to them. The people who/would benefit chiefly are the property-O' ners and business people of the town, i ml if anything is to be done to attain tl is object, they aro the people who must lo it. At present it appears that Ek< tahnna and Danevirke nre to divide t te traffic between. Considering that Pallia tua is nearer by some miles to the centre of the large block of Crown land now open for selection on the eastern sloiei of the Fukotois, it is time wo entered on this work. The Government are ireparod to find tho money ; they only i wait a formal application. Is there half a doren men in Pahiatna with enough em -gv to take up this business of the road to the blast Coast ? GGfil) START. This first consigi nent of butter from tho district to Mr [erbert Chester, who is ono of a largo 1\ iglisli syndicate dealing in Now Zealand lairy produce, has now readied Wellingt n, and in a day or two tlie farmers will receive their money in hard cash. As fa * as we are aware this is a state of thinj i unprecedented in the history of dairy 1 .rulers in this district, and we heartily congratulate thorn on their improved plkspects. Every second Tuesday in futurJj consignments aro to go forward, and in [these we hope to see every part of tb [district represented as well us that in ijliich tho movement was taken up —the N (nguiiao. The fact that an unlimited m j-ket has been opened for this valuable b inch of our produce is bound to have if' good eiTect in inducing other farmers no add dairying to tho other business/hf the farm, and we believe a regularrpiarket and lair prices aro now assured. I / La GRIPPE. All our oxchingss are full of paragraphs about tho woridorful epidemic now raging. These paragraphs chiefly impressed us that in luenza was notiiing if not impartial. Tl 10 unco’ guid and the miserable sinner Hike took their turn, and when a fatal lease was recorded we gave the information publicity with professional gravity dqe to the solemnity of the occasion. Gy iegrees our respect for tho malady is increasing. By degrees, also, wo are losing the services of the whole of our staid and at present wo are engaged on auj important scientific experiment—how to make one pair of hands do tho work jof two. As various shortcomings on oui part become manifest to our readers tlcy may judge of the tho success of this experiment for themselves. So far, howjever, the results are not encouraging. i PARTY FEELINU'IN THE COUNCIL. Thk speeches made It tho County Council meeting, althougli they possessed an undeniable claim for praise by reason of their brevity, reveale l to a most unusual degree the presence i f a bitter party feeling. So pronounce 1, indeed, was the feeling during the el etion of tho Chairman that Cr Georj: ) Whitcombo absouiely refused to al ow liimsolf to bo nominated, beeaus the nomination came from the Op osition side of the table, although, he < ud, ho folt that tho chairmanship was s i honor that should have been offered h m three years ago. The evils of governi lent by Party in our Parliament aro notoi ous. Tho introduction of the system ir o our County Council is nothing loss th n a serious calamity, and it would be to th i interests of the ra o j>ayers if ull feeling of this kind were to be done away with. THE ItAI .WAY GAP. BKFOtE many wej s have elapsed the work -if closing np l io gap in tho railway bctwc'in Eketahuna and Wood villa will be commenced—pr< bably the New Year will liid the work ir full progress. Work well imnmenced, I lys the proverb, is alreaik half finish d. However that may Ip, it behoves the residents of this d:tiri« to see that, nee started, tho work is noitillowed to stc ) at any stags short of eoilpletion. Th t battle of the routes, wliich-vi-r side wi s, should be fought ■jui kj>.

THE TIKAKMn.f BRIDGE. The Comity Cliairniaif lias taken the hull hy the horn* in j J far as thi* bridge it concerned. The pmple who will have to pay. Sir Holton thine* ought, to bo consuited, and with that view he has invited them to meet him at his residence at noon to-morrow to di&uss the matter. A BLUCTJKR. It is very much to be repotted that the Hon. John McKenzie did not take a lesson from his chief in the matter of village settlements in the bush country. Mr Ballnncn' twenty-tire years of experience in the Wellington district taught him that success or failure would pretty much depend on whether a good burn was obtained. The necessary means to fall the whole of the bush on the sections was therefore provided, and the first burn swept the wholo section. Experience bos proved that the proper course; then why is it not followed now ? The village settlers under the present Minister are, it seems, to clear their sections how and when they can, and without any advance. This is the result of itioxperience. and the victims are to suffer for the term of their natural lives as the penalty. It is not too late even now to remedy this mistake, and we hope yet to see it done.