WAIROA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1607, 1 September 1874, Page 343

WAIROA.

(FROM OUR CORRESFOMDBHT.) .; Clyde, 27th August. I have allowed the last mail or two to pass without writing—waiting, Micawber like, for something in the way of news to turn up. I need hardly say I have waited in vain. News is about as scarce an article in the Wairoa as meat, butter, or potatoes. I mentioned in a former letter that a good opening existed here for a butcher. At present the motto seems,to be, " every man his own butcher," and people sometimes have to exercise considerable ingenuity to obtain a supply of fresh meat. It is strange that in a township like Clyde, containing three publichouses and a dozen stores, more or less, the butchering and baking establishments should remain closed. Yet such is the case. Although milch cows are plentiful, butter is never produced, while even milk is not always procurable. The infusion of a little fresh blood into the district would not do any harm. Our punt is now in full working order. The telegraph is making very slow progress Poverty Bay-wards. It will probably be Christmas before the inhabitants of Gisborne will be placed in communication with the rest of the Colony. Native news-—nil.