RAETIHI NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9389, 16 March 1898, Page 2

RAETIHI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

We have had splendid weather for the metalling, and I am informed that most of the work will bo finished this week on the Kaetilii-Pipiriki roid, and another short length on towards Ohakune will be done. I think the greatest credit is dne to all who took such an interest in this very important work being done. Mr G. Hutchison, M.H.R., has kindly forwarded a consignment of books for the Raetihi Library. Unfortunately we have no reading room, and Mr J. Ingram has taken chargo of them. I believe it is the intention to make it a circulating library until a place can be seemed for a reading room, I bolieve a silo for a library lias | been set aside and a meeting should bo called for tho purposa of appointing trustees and where the land is vested in them we could then move in the matter of building. We have had fires raging in the township. The men employed in clearing the site for the butter factory set fire to the bush, and the wind blowing very strong from tho South brought it up through the township and at one timo it looked very j doubtful whether a clean sweep was not going to take place. I have been informed that Mr P. Thompson's whare on the Pipiriki Rood has been burned with all his belongings. Mr J. K. Blundell, Stock Inspector, has been amongst us. He killed a fine heifer belonging t» Mr Ingrain 1 , and a few settlers were present at the examination. It was a very bad case of tuberculosis, and every information was given to those present by Mr Blundell. I believe he has also had one killed at Me McDonald's. I think it would bo a good plan if the Stock Department >had printed instructions supplied to all stock-owners explaining what symptoms showed when animals were affected with this disease. As there does not 'Beem to>be' any cure up- to the present, stock-owners, should try some experiments, and 'probably they would find out a cure. Diseases in cattle should be as easily cured' as diseases in human beings. Of course the. Stock Act would have to be strictly adhered to, and notice given to the inspector. If an experiment was to b.e trie 4it wQijld have -to. be by his sanction, so that every gare would have to be taken and propel 1 places provided.