WAINUIORU AND EAST COAST NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 6908, 19 July 1901, Page 4

WAINUIORU AND EAST COAST NOTES.

(From Our Oirn Curmpomlcn!). Friday. On Friday r»hi,«snowstorm of im usual severity set in and contmuci idinnsl willunit cessation I'll Hundai Tin' whole country, withii iihmit illillii of the sen level was coverei with 11 depth of idiout six inches of snuw while on '.many portions of the Iliad stone and Hast ('oast-road, it was fully i foot deep. Though llie weather has Wen so rmyli of late, stock docs not appear to hnvi sulTcrcd to any apprcciahle extent, The Kaiwhata-Karaka liay require.' some iiltenlion at the hands of the Tarie lahi-Cartcrton road hoard, as the rivci near its mouth is mnliiiif; considcrahli encroaehmeiH on the road line, consequent on the wiittlri" which was put to protect the hank having heeu washed away, is damaged in several places,

Tho' hl'ws thiit there is to be delay ii tht erection of the Tiiucni bridge is fa from satisfactory to residents here, h str'ics the oT< I; imry mind tlmt the delai might Imvc been uvoided if the contractu! liiid unloaded the iron buck piles nt Carterton, from whence there is ,1 gooi nietullcd road to witlri n short i''sta'ic( of the bridge site. mih

Mr Hornsby, M.H.ll.has been interviewing the Postmaster-General nticiit telephone services in his electorate, with the result tlmt so far as the Wlmmu is concerned the work will be put in hand on a guarantee for .COO per annum being signed by the settlers, Query: (or how lonj,' will the guarantee be required ? It is the same old slory. The back-block settlers who have been paying taxes for years and years are left out in the cold and yet money can be lavished on increasing (lit honorarium of members of rarlianieiit, useless lioyaljCummissionits sending Contingents to Africa, cadets to Christcluirch, anil sundry other shows calculated to gain the Uwi'jt, J. Seddon kudos in the eyes of the Imperial authorities.

lly the way, at a smoke concert at Carterton, given by the Totara Lodge, X.A.O.D. in honor of some of the returned troopers, Mr ilornsby, M.11.K. when responding to the toast to the Parliament of Xew Zealand, tendered some excellent advice viz,,—He urged them that they were the masters of the members, and should never let that position be reversed," Yet, was not this position reversed last Session, when members voted themselves an additional honorarium of ,CI0; mid is not the same thing likely to occur ,'tgitin this Session under the proposal to add another X6O, Surely, it is against all the cities regulating the conduct of muster and servant -tlmt the servant should increase his evohunents without consulting his master,

There are a large number of the r employed (ravelling llirougli (his distric just now mid with little prospect of lint' ing work- -yet the country is sr'd to |i so prosperous!