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Kumara Times, Issue 801, 25 April 1879, Page 4

The Aahburton Mail says-.—"A tradesman named Macfarlanearrived at Ashburton on Thursday evebiDg, accompanied by his family, after performing a feat in travelling that has rarely been equalled. Attracted by Blowing accounts of bus-iness prospects in Canterbury, the family left their norm at ."Fee/ton, with the intention of making their way overland to Ashburton, fifteen days ago. Their ji.urney from Eeefton to Grey mouth, thence to flokitika, and aorcss from the West Coast to Christchurch, and finally to Ashburton, was accomplished in a wagonette'! Probably ftw families in any of the Colonies have bad a more adventurous trip. They enjoyed a fortnight's continuous traveling through some of the wildest, yet most beautiful and romantic Ecenery in New Zea land. The privations and risks of the journey may be readily imagmed. Th. re are few swaggers who, a few years ago, would have cared to navigate their way through such rough country on foot, and the fact that Macfarlane has been able to carry h s family in a two-horse vehicle through the heart of the Middle Island, in the way he has done, shows that what was long considered im' practicable country must be getting well opened out." ihe Westland district is gradually losing its best teachers. The second master of the Bokitika School has accepted an appointment at Waipawa in the Hawke's Bav district. J The Dunedin Age says it is rumored, but most probably u- true, that a wifeless member of the present Ministry will shortly take to himself a Maori princess at his bettef half.