Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 68, 18 September 1893, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

[FROM OUE OWN COHHKsro.NDENT.] The Commissioner of Crown Lands hns intimated to the .Si'ciet/iry of the Umutoi Farm Homestead Association that he purposes attcnrlmu nt Ashurst on October the luth, for the purpose of superintending the. drnnui*; for sections in thtit Association, :m<l .-i ls>> that he will go on to Dnneviike tin- same day, where another Asnociaii> n wiil be balloted for. The Umutoi Association w.is formed on January 16th, 18i)2. to t-ike up thai portion of the l'ohangin.-i V'nlley lying on the north of the Association of that name, nnd bounded on tin? west by the .Marton Sainll Farm U!ook. Tho metalled roiid from Pemhert< n runs about ten miles and a half from the Umutoi Association, so that it will have a g<<od start for roads, and will be near the rising township of Apiti. A very successful Imnbing is reported from our district. Tho mortality among hoggets is rather high in low places, but, as a rule, sheep have weathered the unusually moist winter very well. The first tree brought into the Victorian Mill to cut the telegraph poles from, made lo poles 25 feet long. There were 2814 feet in it altogether. Another length of 25 feet was also cut from the sn.no tree. Tho sides of the roads «ro being carefully looked nt by people splitting firewood , and picking up odd limbs of totara for house blocks. For miles out of town j the best of the wood is gone — so that we j may expect firewood to rise in price in another year or so. Mr A. Williscroft has developed measles in his tent in the Salisbury Block. Measles are not so bad at home with sympathising hands bearing something nice and palatable, but to be alono is very awkward and dangerous too, for Mr Williscroft caught cold after the attack, having to go out. Also, in the Foxton Block inflammation after measles caused the death of Mr Savell's son aged 24. He was buried in the Palmerston cemetery on Friday. The Odd Fellow's Lodge has been opened in Ashurst. Its meetings for the present are in the Theatre Royal. There arc; 26 members in Ashurst and Pohangiua.