MANUKA CREEK.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 145, 20 April 1877, Page 6

MANUKA CREEK.

• '•-* rraP'M : OUB OW COa/RESPOin)BNT.] ; This locaHty has uridergone a -change which iriu^t be obvious* to all and suridry.*. No place in Otago has been so prominently kept before the- public by your /.provincial ; contemporaries as ." the- celebrated.R ound ■ ' Hill tuririel drinrig its coristructibri/ ; There -were mapy .cpntradiptpry, ( reports . as , -, to when it wpuld be finished, arid"' ifrVas even, doubted as to /whether tifc. was reallyVprac? { tical?le or nptj causing/, no doubt,* a considerable arridurit bf^rineasiriess to the eri;girieers and ; labourers who.were eritrusted -with 'the ; uride^aking. : 'y]Sr6tmthßtariding all -this, the ; work is nbw ; c6riapleted,'&rid the last link- to; the'chain^isaddedy con-' nectirig Lawrence t to : the'.priricipalcity : df Nriw Zeklaridi { No doribt it-will give Lawrericean impetus unprecedented, •• and also the district thrpu'gh which the lirife passes!; The!settlers x particulaxly 'wili-Wap ii 'direct benefit, having an outlet for all sorts of produce- to*a- ready market^andat a much cheaper .freight, may they be thankful -and /proud of VthPir ; "members; "lri/thp General .Assembly, for- theirVimtiriri'g' ze^l and , : perseverance: in. promoting construction of this ; lirie.;- It* is i. a ''great pity that; aoirie districts tup-country > whoVlhayebeen -strenuously .working rfor-j-ar -branch railway if or some time ; had'riot-men.of the -same, starii'ina as / our : members, /Messrs -Bastings and -Brown.; ••. If -they had,, their/ efforts before/ *now. : m© idoubty/ would; have ■been 'crowned; with a /.success to that displayed , 'in Lawrence/, ony ,Easter ; , Monday.".* :b L /,iV/;;:;t A^Yxu *;•• -.7 ■*-*-<;/ -.if - 'Harvest operations are >ripw t comp!letpd^ and! settlers really haye :j had, excellentweather in comparison to that *tt.. the M outsOt.j \The crpps/herexajre? genetaUy^gopdV aridj above the: average.- -,-; A; threshing mill -has,also i oome /to thp;ldistrict ea .jtoute^tg'; the farm of Mr Craig, -so that our wants ': are few, and wiUbereducedjjomparatively ! in a few weeks. !

My friend Mr Wyber has commenced a

VVVrVW"' f .'^'■"AiflJU^ai'.'ATAiiHP.T >;j c-"j *Qew'^ !^i'sine33 in connßcticaij ;i wJtth. T .hiß i butchery J imthevshape.sof...a felhnorigery. Judedrig from:the, district and its surround-dngSy'ils-Jhaye^ no doubt it will bp f a success %riarfcia;llyV and beneficial"! '*&> *hiiS£eK~and* l^ghbpVh^ l a6;iaiie, y - 6W *'--• , 'a*>OurV^di*3bh:y /Kosl&Mr th 6 ,M^huka- Cifeefc; /iHotel,*Aas ! -ll'sp^^^ bulhteß& o t£fJ -'a* 'Storekeeper^ a*want*whidh Was -greatly felt*.' faiid; w/e -^rust" that « Mr- «Kavanagh t will ,rerj .cpiyeJ^pust^pUtroriage'frPm.theipubhc./fQri „ h is!plucky--eriterpri"se.i-.>ir.n iumn ai olAi n «,* A- ;Our-"m jich; respeeted'Pastpr., , : the ,Rey.h«l.. (! iSkinner, | from - Waitahuna^ Jiolds,,, divine, ' sefviceeyery.i' Sunday -jin the.^schpolhpus.e.^ f Helias.a 1 great amount of, wprk.tod'o here', 1 having a ,wide, district, to contend witli, and very, much scattered, over wild rugged ;co'uriiii^.| hp : has t6 ! . : 'contend with/ r HS 3 is fi vei'y attentive to* lrfs'cliarge 'arid 'flocks I 'visiting ;th^ h6m6s-"bf those'' M ; *si\3Mriess fi witlv great attention. I trust, that he may lorig-re-'tairiVhis healM 'itf Kis^gce'&t work of visiting arid J J dibseminating the Gospel • truths'^ to /yourig.arid old, rich and poorf in~the-dis-'trifct?'' 4 I .«:-tVitf c,-U THAI] ! >A ! > YY.'"' I T^Turrf