CARTERTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 188, 18 June 1879, Page 2

CARTERTON.

(FitO.ll OUK OIVJf COiIKESI'OXUEXT.) June 17,1879. The only topic of conversation heroyei day was tho grand flare up in the Empii City on Sunday night, and on any otlu rnattoi one could, not get a question i edge-ways. 111 nil several saw tho refle tioii of the fire over the ranges, but put down either to a big burn on the railwa line or an early visitation of the Auroi Australia. lam sorry to learn our new host r "The Marquis" has incurred a heav loss through a large quantity of fuvnitui he had recently purchased, which was (It posited on the site of the lire, bavin fallen a victim to the devastating elemen ■ Yesterday being tho last day for th lodgment of appeals against, the distrii valuation for the Land Tax, I interview the Commissioners' local agent this mori ing, and find that thirty-three objcctioi have been lodged for the Taratahi-Carte ton district. I believe several of thes arise from the insertion of incorrei ownership, and while in some eases tl: valuation is deemed excessive, due nlJou ance not having been made by, the valuati for improvements in others, from con veisiitions I have had with one and ai other the valuation of lands that hav been sub-divided havo been calculate above the average of what' half-acre sei tions on the main road have actually bee sold for I while in • other cases swamp gronnd, on which no work has been dom lias been taken as of, equal Value with tli very pick of large blocks of land of wltic it formed ft portion. „ " iL:;-.- ■'V.v:

\ A notice has'beon publicly posted and forwarded to the several members of our new Volunteer Corps requesting every member to put in an appearance at the Public Hall to-night, to be duly sworn in. , , The railway works seem at last to be likely to go abend hereabouts, as there is a. largo gang on the Belvidcro road workings, and another on the Tavatahi in the real of Mr Donald Nicholson's residence. For this season of the year a more eligible tract of land than the level plain of the Taratahi oilers could not, I suppose, well be found on which to conduct operations,