KAWHIA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 134, 25 February 1909, Page 5

KAWHIA.

(Own Correspondent) We have bod a tong spell of fine, weather, and people who bad bub dbwn bm been gcttisf good bnim. Tie s.s. Rothsay has been busy takisf telephone poles, for the KawbiaMarykopa tine, to Marokopa. It seems trimi that the Government ikrald is to the expenna odf sending poles to mnkop* all the way from the Saath Island—when equally good, if Mt better, eoaid be cut along a greater put ef th« line. Tke Survey office has sent asurveyor (Mf A. D. Newton) to survey the track at Kiritehere. about which the dispute was lately. I believe it is intended to reserve it for public use ontil such time as a road is made. dlreat dissatisfaction is expressed bete with the running of the Northern S.Q, Co's steamers. The irregularity ia caused by the state of the bar at Walters, and Kawbia people think that ttt is time Waitara was cot out of the timetable; as it is now. the steamer ha* often to stay a day or two either or at New Plymouth, waiting until there is sufficient water to get into Waitara Mr P. A. Pearson, of Hsoturu. had a eery nanww escape the other day He wm patting a pea-riffe into a canoe when it went off, the bullet entering Ms head Just above the eyes and coming eat at the top of his forehead, for- I unately wit hoot doing much damage.