WAIMEA.
Thursday, Sept. 24.
From this district our intelligence is Ftill of a cheering nature. Slowly, but yet surely, in spite of the absence of track- 1 , the back country is being opened up, and, ere long, if the population continues to increase on- the new ground at as rapid a rate as it has beendoing for some time past, the gullies in tlie interior will become, instead of as in times past uninabited wilds, important portions of the district. The Arab ura Read Board are doing what they can to push forward with the making of tracks, but the district is so extensive that their labors are not perceptible in any great degree. That they, however, are in earnest, is evidenced by the proposal they have made to boirow £1000 from the Hokitika Corporation for the purpose of cutting tracks back into the ranges. Should the Corporation comply with their request the most advantageous results would follow, for the district would then have a chance of being thoroughly prospected, the result of which there can be no doubt of. The Waimea district still keeps its place as one of the best on the West Coast, and f. om every appearance it will do so for a long time to come.
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West Coast Times, Issue 944, 1 October 1868, Page 3 (Supplement)
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