STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9258, 7 December 1891, Page 2

STRATFORD NEWS.

[FROM OVR RESIDENT AGENT.] December 7. — A flying visit to the mountain yesterday found the track in splendid order. Dame Nature, without any of the tedious formalities of tho Loans to Local Bodies Act, is gravelling the track, the winter rains having washed the gravel from the knobs of that material, which occur at frequent intervals, into the hollows- There are a few trees partially blocking the way, but half a day's work by a few volunteers would put that light. The grass seed sown last season has done well, and will be appreciated by visitors' horses, who, as a rule, do not look with any favor on the native tußsock. It is a pity something cannot be done with the mile of road which still romains unfelled. In fact, an effort should be made to make members of the Government feel that every unfelled road is a disgrace to a Government that came into office with such widely trumpeted vaunts as to how much better than its predecessors it was going to be in the matter of land settlement. Bush burning is beginning early, several fires having been visible from here on Friday and Saturday. Messrs Johnson, I hear, had a clean burn of 200 acres at Cardiff. Petitions were presented on Saturday to the Manganui Road Board against the Pembroke Road gravelling. The reasons alleged, so far as I have heard, are not such as either tho Road Board or the Colonial Secretary can legally take notice of.