OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4067, 14 June 1882, Page 2

OPUNAKE.

[teleouapred by our correspondent.] June 14. — The Hauraki arrived from Foxton yesterday, with over twenty thousand feet of timber for Messrs. Berry & Newman, who are ahout to resume work on bridges between here and Stony River without delay. The Rowena also arrived from Auckland, but only discharged one boatload of cargo, and left for Wanganui. The bay was all day like a mill-pond. A whare near the Constabulary Redoubt was burnt to the ground yesterday afternoon. I hear nearly everything on the premises was lost. Some ugly rumors arc rife as to the hanging-up for an indefinite period for sale or lease of the native lands on this coast. I am told, but cannot vouch for the information, that the Chief Surveyor at Taranaki will not pass plans unless mathematical niceties are adhered to. In the old time the Colony went to tho extreme of carlesßness in its surveys. We have lately been going to the other extreme. The Press on the Went Coast ought to take the matter up. If tho rumors are correct, neither Europeans nor Natives can afford to wait. Progressive settlement is a far greater consideration for the Colony than decimial correctness where large blocks have to be dealt with.