Ongo Motes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 110, 6 November 1895, Page 2

Ongo Motes.

■ -♦- — [From a Correspondent.] On Friday last Mr Pearce took a splendid mob of ewes and lambs into Waituna for the sale to be held there on Wednesday (to-day). As showing the excellent class of stock that can be raised in this part of the country, Mr Pearce's sheep are really striking examples. The per centage attained by that gentleman this season is 113, which is, considering the unfavorable circumstances to be contended against in stock-raising, a highly- creditable average. In several places the main road to Waituna and Feilding is in a disgraceful state. This should not be so, seeing a large sum of money has been spent on roads that are at present unused. The present deplorable state of a road which goes through a largely-settled district is a convincing proof that this important matter should receive, at least, the attention of the warden. I understand that over £600 has been expended on the approach to Vinegar Hill, a road that will be utterly useless until the completion of the bridge, the ford there being nncrossable ; while the road that is in daily use by a very large section of the community is calmly allowed to remain in its present neglected condition. It seems a great pity that the 60 chains of bridle track connecting the two formed roads in the Pakibikura should not have had a little of the money so foolishly expended otherwise, spent on it, this being an urgently-needed work, affecting the welfare of the settlers to a ' very considerable extent. Tbe pile-driving plant to be used in the construction of the Vinegar Hill bridge is now on tbe ground, and working operations will soon be in full swing. The other portions of the plant are now at Hnnterville awaiting removal to the bridge site. Tbe appearance of the site now presents the aspect of " a real live calico township," some twenty tents having been recently erected. This is a source of very considerable satisfaction to tbe settlers interested in this muchneeded structure, for the silence of oar forest gloom will now be disturbed by the vigorous clang and bang of busy workmen engaged in the erection of a bridge which will prove an immense boon to all desirous of getting from the block to civilisation without incurring the many risks inseparable from a dangerous river.