HALCOMBE LETTER.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 17, 12 August 1882, Page 2

HALCOMBE LETTER.

] (FKOM ODE OWN' COKUKSPONDENTT.) I Halcombe, Yesterday. Of course you cau easily imagine that every kind of business is very dull here j siuce the bridge was washed away — iv I fact wo are living on the past at present, and if things do not soou raena we will have to difceoSiht the' future by living on the storekeepers, if they weak .enough to leL us. I went down to examine the new i works at tbe /river, and found that they : were being proceeded with very cner- : t i cal ly under the- superintendance of Mr ; Botlieram, who certainly does not spare | 'hiurself in the exercise of his duties. I gather from him, and from pei'soh 1 observat on, that traffic will be resumed l in the first week in September at the very j latest, and if we have a spell of fine , weatber (and ..here. are. no breakdown*-), i it may be befo-e August lias ruu its ' I course. This is good news to us. It is i a sad thing to see good bard-working I men idle, and too poor to shift themselves j-ahd -their families even -A to your more r ; prosperous township* t j The Stab is gradually forcing its way , ' into circulation here, and when are i in a more prosperous conditio*! I will be i able to give you items of" interest iv ; plenty ; .so that the- popularity ( of your journal, my be increased by eveu luy • hum ble efforts-. ' ..