OHINEMURI.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3056, 30 November 1878, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBEEBFONDINT.) Faeboa, 29th November. The County Chairman (A. Brodie Esq.) accompanied by Mr E. W. Puckey, Native Agent, interviewed Tukukino at Eomata today. As was expected, the latter persisted in refusing to allow the Thames-Ohinemuri road to be made through what he claims as his land. The County Chairman has politely informed him that the work will be carried out whether he likes it not. No serious trouble is anticipated. Mr Wakefield, Under-Secretary for Goldfields, and Mr Aitken (County Surveyor) landed at Te Puke, and, after inspecting the orchard, walked overland to Paeroa. The afternoon was spent in looking round the district in general and the rival sites for Government Buildings in particular. This evening several of the principal business people waited upon Mr Wakefield at the Criterion Hotel, in order to urge upon him the desirability of retain* ing the site granted by Messrs Jackson and Russell long ago. Mr C. F. Mitchell introduced the deputation and acted ai

principal spokesman. Messrs Phillips, fiobson, Johnson, Ritchie and others also gave expression to their views upon the subject. After an animated discussion, Mr Wakefield promised to bring the matters referred to under tne notice of the Government, and said that no decision would be given without mature consideration. One would have thought that the Government could have made up their minds after getting Mr Superintendent Thomson's report. The question of extending the telegraph from either HikniaiS' or Katikati to this place, so. as to connect us with the rest of the colony, was brought forward, but Mr Wakefield said that that matter was not 'in his department, whereupon the deputation thanked, him and withdrew. There has not been much news worth chronicling lately. The panorama of the/ Franco-Prussian War had a lull house/ and the exhibition gave great satisfaction. Whooping cough has made its appearance in this district. The Evening Star cutter, brought up a full load of bricks direct.. from Auckland. I omitted, in my ast.to mention that the Rev W. E. Mulgan, of Katikati, has held the opening service of the season. He has intimated that' W' fJ will hold the next service on the evening of Sunday, the Bth of December, after • the morning service at Waitekauri. ' I For cool, bureaucratic impudence, com«_. \. mend me to Messrs Conyers and Lawson. After the heads of the Thames ; local bodies had completed arrangements for their reception, they quietly take their departure, and content themselves with instructing, a subordinate to curtly inti- > mate the tact late in the afternoon of the ;| day they were expected to visit Hibe* Thames. .-■ :;■ ■;> ,■;;. -,■■ r?:T .-" '■ ■'• B/the way, I see-that Bfr Stewart'* estimate of the cost of construction of the railway from Omahu, Upper Thames, is £178,0 0. It so, how could the Government say that the whole Thames Valley line.was to be constructed out of the amount put down in the schedule submitted to Parliament ? If you don't looV; out the question of starting, operations will be hung up, like our Government building business, until it has been "maturely considered," which probably means that they have settled the matter in their own minds, and will simply wait until the agitation dies away, and then carry oat their original intentions. r ''