LOWER WHAREAMA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 344, 19 December 1879, Page 2

LOWER WHAREAMA.

[mom our own correspondent]

Dec 18, 1879. The cricket match Eleven Shearers v Eleven of the Tinui-Whareama Club commenced on Friday, 12th inst., between 11 and 12 a.m. Fortune decided that the finm team should be the first to wield the willow Shortly after play started the rain, which had been threatening all the morning, came down in earnest, causing the stoppage of the game in haste, and a rush was made for the tents by both players and spectators. It is to be regretted that the weather turned out so unfavorable. After some hesitation it was decided to leave the questionable shelters of cahco and adjourn to the Tenui (temporary) Hotel for refreshment, both liquid and solid. In the afternoon the weather cleared somewhat, but not sufficiently to allow the match to be continned. It was decided by the captains of the rival teams the match should be resumed on Boxing Day, play to commence at halfpast ten a.m. It is difficult to understand where all the spectators found accommodation at Tinui. Rumor hath it that in some instances meat safes were resorted to as Bleeping apartments, the ordinary contents having been previously abstracted and devoured,

The rain which commenced on Friday continued until to-day. Roads are very muddy m consequence, and hay-making and shearing have been delayed a great deal. °

There is a very dangerous hole on the Uriti-Tenui road about half way between Messrs Elder & Co.'s station and Cripps' Creek, Persons travelling would do well not to try the depth of it, several already

having come to grief by getting their horses bogged, _ I notice our road overseer, Mr Perry is very energetic in getting repairs done to the roads; and during a season like the present it is well that such is the case, or traffic would be stopped almost entirely.

By the report of the last meeting of the | County Council I see a deputation waited on that body re the Blairlogie road. It would be a great boon to many of the Whareama settlers if something was done to make a bridle track on this line Already three surveys have been made, costing a great deal ofimoney, and I hear there is a still better line to be got than any surveyed. From £250 to £3OO should make a passable track for stock and horsemen if spent judiciously and on the best line.

On dit that a coach will run from Masterton to Cashpoint provided a bi-weekly mail service is established. This no doubt means a subsidy for the coach, without which it would not pay to run one. A coach running through the district'is a thing to be desired, and many people wish for a bi-weekly mail. We shall, I fear, not get this extra mail unless some steps are taken urging the necessity of it on the Postal authorities in Wellington. We might with good reason ask our Masterton friends to assist us in this, it bein« directly and indirectly a benefit to them? New mail contracts will, I understand, soon be called for, so that now is the time to make known our wants in this matter. On the proposed Estimates is an item, " Road, Masterton to Cashpoint, £810." Is this the outcome of the Cashpoint settlers petition to Parliament ? If so, it is verily but a drop in the ocean of our necessaries, On the principlo that half a loaf is better than no bread, we must take it and be thankful, hoping that some time we will obtain our long-withheld and just rights in the direction of proper roads through this district.