Apiti Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 140, 20 May 1890, Page 2

Apiti Notes.

[by a correspondent. [ Taking all things into consideration we are plodding along pretty well with the exception of the usual bush farmer's first troubles, such as : Cannot find the cow, no milk ; wanted to go to. Birmingham but could not catch the horse until it was too late to go, &c, Still the grass is growing, the blaok clearings that have known the power of the axe & fire are now giving a more cheerful view, promising plenty- of feed for stock. We have nothing to complain of with regard to the quality of the land in our locality. Nearly every settler appears to be as busy as can be. The axe is again ringing in all quarters, and the frequent roar tolls that some monarch of the forest has bit the dust. Our township (Birmingham) as we call it, is going along briskly ; several new buildings have been added to it, and several more are to be built. I saw a petition being numerously signed for a daily mail, which is really wanted, as numbers of important letters are given to Mr Daw, the most obliging of coach proprietors, to be posted at Feilding as it is often too long to wait until the mail closes. We also have another grievance with regard to the. postal arrangements. We often get papers, photos, parcels, &c., from distant friends, and to see them when they arrive is enough to annoy anybody. Newspapers like riddles ; parcels crushed out of ail shape, often worthless. Cause-— Packed on a horae from Feilding to Birmingham in about the. same manner as Indian butter is made. The poll is to be taken on Wednesday next with regard to our loan for roads. It is to be hoped that all ratepayers will turn up and vote for it, as it is the only way of getting roads within a reasonable time. The tracks will be in a fearful state this winter. Some of the settlers here have an idea that the government will make the road through, which of course the Government will never do. I consider that all roads. should be made before the land is open for selection, the cost to be charged on the land. Settlers could well pay it as the greatest drawback to a bush former ia having no road; ■ .' *