WAIMARINO NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12122, 9 August 1895, Page 2

WAIMARINO NOTES.

■ 1, « — ■ By " Social Pe.t." x Wr.Williß' speech on the -'.The Mid- . land Bailway Debate," tnd h_3 statement tbat the Wanganui River is openiug pp the Waimarino Block of §90,000 aprcs, is '. cur special sensation just now.' The outcome of it' is' a prtitioi) which* I am je> « queited to' ask you to publish for the ,*• benefit of your Wanganui readers, so tbat •' our voices may not te silent over this matter. It is as follows; -The Hon.-R.~-' J. SeddoD, Premier'. Hon. Sir,— With . regard to the statement of Mr A. P. ' Willis in the House, ■• That the Wanganui River is opening up 500,000 acte3 in tho Waimarino," we, tho unde'rßignei Waimarino setttlers . resident,'- entirely descent from that statem-mt, ' We consider tbe. outlets to this distriot to. b., . . (firs.) the Main Trunk Bailway; (se- ' cond) a road from Para Para to Wanganui ; (third) lhe Wanganui River XIO.OOO or any other sum .pent in : the above direction will be more in the interests of settlement here,: than as Mr Willie suggests. The Raetibe section of „ the petition alone has 7<* signatures attached to it. This doBS-jUO^ inolnde Okahune, which will mean ne'arljias many more. It is eignifiiant tbatjtne Main- - Trunk Railway obtains first plaoe now, , '. and the current of opinion is in that direction. Your cohteniporary-i'and iha other wiseacres who have placMt every obstacle in tho way of us getting a dray • ■ road to Wanganui via Para Paraiwill. look particularly silly when they hold the . shadow, and lose the substanoe, And ,- doubtless your buainess people will get np a testimonial, thinking them for driving away the Wainpr'ni trade from Wanganui, The elitor of the Herald will ba g'ai to sae from the number who have signed lhe petition, that we, ' haven-tall goie to Cojlgardie wi.i the loans advanced to us under the " Advance to Settlers Aot." Mr Willis' vote • ia favour of the -3600,0.0 being sreaf on - the " Midknd " and then the 'denhncia-ti->n':Of thore c unparitivery worthVa railways," couplisd with "tte d»y will r come— muEt come appeal for tho river," rominde. me of a very vulgar Eong I once heard, entitled ■' You scratch my back an4 I'll s-r*atch yourb." ; He ha3 done his shaie of the 8-ratching, bujt he forgo,!; w'e. lyere entitled to an jnnirigg. We have been having yery severe weaK ther here latfrly. In the vicinity of Kai ioi the snow'has been lying on the ground for a-.out nine weeks, and it i» feared the station will lo.se a large-num-ber of sheep this winter. Evotytlung is very quiet in this die*Wet, very little work going on of any fo:t. It has taken the Government a little over four years to fi-id out tbat the P.A. Associations solection of land in this district is too rough for satllenmt, and so they are sending members baok their 10a deposit.