Mutt Vally Notes.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2, 27 September 1907, Page 3

Mutt Vally Notes.

' (FltOM A COBRESrOKDENT.) Tho Upper Hutt has been settled for about half a century, "at, least, a-nu some bravo persons, jtlioro (evidently just recovering from - sleeping slokuess) suggest forming; it into a •Towi'i 'Board. -~.', If the Licensing Committeo in.tho Hutt aro guilty of nothing clso tbc'y aro-to .bo-complimented., on tho .im-proved'sia'to-of affairs. in-:th'o ,Unpor, b[utt,,.tho now hotel being a credit to'airconcerned. - ' ' ' Thbro is some talk of a new post-office-at tho Uppor Hutt—mostly, in "Hansard." .Takes a general election to got tho real-thing. Dissolutions don't count. - Railway matters aro thoichicf topic just now.' Someono evidently intendcSjlvcrstroam (notwithstanding ' its Liberal Club) shall be wiped out; Saturdays at least. For somo reason, unknown all passengers from Silver--stream station lately are voted an Upper Huttites (much to their-cha-grin), and tho Liberal Club is to approach' Sir Joseph' Ward to know the i-oason that tho district in quest-ion is.not to. r.ecoivo thb benefit, of its patronage of the railway's. , When the annual roturns arc presented, 'Walhcovillo and Upper Hutt will benefit by tho wilful refusal of, the guards to write'•" Silvorstream to Wellington," and vice all' Saturday arid Sunday tickets issued between thesq.. stations as formerly. Somo.find rcsidonces havo gone up at the golf links, . Silvorstream, and should prove an added feature to this summer's wock-ending in tho Hutt Valley, which soenis destined to be-, enmo tho homo of sport. County rates are going up, and already, there is somo talk of tho Whiteman's Valley -Road being discarded for a newer and bettor routo .further north. First a road, then a deviation, and now an entirely new- road. Why. not? _ Uppor Hutt has a big future beforo it should over,the proposed Waikanae deviation scheme proyo possiblo when the Main Trunk Railway is completed. For. months ~ past, railway workshops at Upper Hutt have been mooto:! as. probablo. Now's the time tho Akatarnwa . coal beds should i-oveal themselves again I

Tilo now doctor at tho Upper Hctt hasn't much chanco of fcelinj; a stranger in the community, nearly every 'other man, woman and child haviiig purposely, as it wore, got ill juot soon after his arrival; Of course, it might have been, an epidemic. Tho weather, during tho past fow weeks, ha 3 militated against farm work,-pretty well every other farmor waiting, for that fine, early' spring and hot summer'tho Maoris prophesied a whilo back. Moanwhilq somo fir.o floods aro' promised when tho snow melts. A fino stable on Mr. Andrew Luff's proporty at Silvcratrcaih waa destroyed by firo about nine o'clock on Tuesday oVcning. Tho horses wcro moved with difficulty by tho waggoners, Messrs. JVlacgregor Bros., who also lost .thoir personal effects and a considerable sum -of , paper inonoy thorowith. It ia very'generally (stated, hero that Sir Josoph V/ord-hns purohasod thirty acres of-land cfc Trontlmm, whioh ho intonds improving as tho site of b country rosidenoo this summer. Local residents viow Jiio.advont in tho.district with distinct plea.-.uro. in. anticipation ,of nu .improved railway service and ouoli lilro needed reforms. Mr. Wilford has a!r,o fivo acres of hill land in tho Chntsworth Estnto at Silvorstream. Between them both something good to tho district must shortly bo ovolved.