UPPER THAMES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3684, 20 August 1880, Page 3

UPPER THAMES.

(mom oub own correspondent.) Tb Aboha, Aug. 17, • I havh not much news to chronicle. Uur prospectors are at work, with what success I cannot say. tThoy are very dark as tho Maoris express [it. In other words they are not communicative. Oapt. Turner's survey party are camped at the foot of tho range. They aro employed surveying the line of road aoross the range between here and Katikati, and I have been informed that a good road is practicable. £1,500 has boen plaoedon the estimates for the work, This road is the one refered to by Mr Whitaker, jun., when being examined by the railway commissioners as likely to feed tho railway and help to make it pay. Pity he does not think so now! Peoplo here aro daily ncanning your advertising columns, hoping to 3ee tenders called for tho Paeroa to To Aroha road, which is in a vory bad state. Why is this work so long delayed ? The money is in hand, and tho survey levels, &c, completed. A swagsman passing through one of the swampors' camps a few days ago ostensibly looking for work, is supposed to havo stolon some £11 or £12 out of ono of the wharos during the absenceof tho cook, who had gone to the works with tho men's dinner. The police are on his track, however, and it is to bo hoped ho will bo apprehended,—Now houses aro going up in ovory direction, and tho placo is consequently assuming quite a settled appearance. A. your ago only threo or four buildings wore visible for miles round.