The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 154, 8 May 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1879.

In a recent issue a correspondent from the Whareama again called our attention to the desirability ot a bi-weekly mail being established between Castlepoint and Wellington. We are aware that an application for such an extension of Postal accommodation is now being considered by the department, and wo hope the result will be .favorable to the applicants. The present service is a rather small one. We believe that some hundred letters and two or three hundred papers per week are the aggregate average mails for Tinui, Whareama, Castlepoint, and the East Coast. The revenue from such a mail is necessarily very small and inadequate to cover the outlay in the department in providing the present weekly service, It however sometimes happens that a bi-weekly service will pay better than a weekly one, and this, is generally the case where the district is capable of rapid development, both as regards its population and material resources. No one familial* with the immense area of country to which we are now referring can doubt that its present handful of settlers are altogether out of proportion to either its extent or its pastoral and agricultural importance. The district is one that requires a little spurt only to' emerge from its present chrysalis form and to

become, not a remoto' gigantic 'out-' station for sheep, but a land where the small fanner may live'in and thrive—a place where capital may be planted with safety and security—a country where, in a few years time, smalltownships will mark many spots where, perhaps, now there is but a single solitary habitation, When the iron horse' reaches Masterton the beautiful beach at Wliakataki, and the wonderful natural beauties of Castlepoint will be within a day's journey of Wellington, and we know no watering place within a hundred miles of the Empire City that can at all vie with them, The barrier which lias hitherto separated County East from County West has been the want of proper road communication, We sincerely trust that the result of the late discussions over roads to Tinui will terminate in the construction of a first-class lino over which Cobb and Co. cau travel. If such be the caso applications to the Government for a bi-weekly mail will be unnecessary, Private enterprise will run a coach to Castlepoint twice or even thrice a week from Masterton, The future of the district is so certain that even nowit would be a wise and prudent thing for the Postal Department to meet the wishes of settlers by establishing a bi-weekly mail. It is a district which in future years will repay tenfold any small advance made to it now. It is a district which is even now .unduly plethoric, and requires a little of its abundance to be transmitted to less favored localities, When on a recent occasion a representative of this journal paid it a visit, he was struck with the large number of sovereigns in circulation there-bank notes were scarce, and promissory notes, which are so plentiful elsewhere, all but unknown. It is manifest that no effort should be spared to open up to the fullest possible extent a country where an exceptional prosperity appears to be the characteristic of its present denizens. The land requires to be better known, not by Masterton settlers, but by the farmers of Canterbury and Otago. •It would be a good thing when the present period of depression moves, as it soon will, into the limbo of the past, if some of the agricultural lands of the Whareamacould be introduced to the notice of the farmers of the Colony, and by means of a company of some kind or other a settlement of them made on a scale that would stamp it as one of the principal agricultural settlements of the Colony,