A VOICE FROM OTAKI.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 67, 18 April 1879, Page 2

A VOICE FROM OTAKI.

.■:..:. . . : [ '■ ■ 1 : : [communicated.] If you have space, permit me to call your attention to a few passing events in itlie" lower- 'district of^mt^* l county. As our interests, are closely allied with yours, 1 aU ie^itahiaxe m^ans .of drawing.. them stilL closer should"" not be overlooked. ■■' -"■■ •''■>" «' ; W You will Beuby the WallißgWtt'i papers of the 10th Apni, 'thiaVtWcfJ '•« vessels hailed from Otalri, i^tHe'l)jiy'J" ( l Dawn, Anderson, master; and'' ttie 1 IS |lliz^betli, ketc'i, 33 tons, ooohr^ri^ f)0l! master. The El izabeth was wrepked at Kapiti some five moritUa*'!^,' •*• while prosecuting a vdyage ftbik Pelorus Souud to VVanganui. .SKe 1 f J was got off, however, 1 having been launched a fortnight; ago, and taken to Otaki, where she loaded a cargo of railway iron, landed from the stranded ship City of Auckland. After discharging her cargo at Wel-

w^ .'■.■■-.i'-'f -L J- '- ■ nt'-irAiii i ~~ lib^ftW'retui-na C^afei; laden With r6^ piiiß limber to jjrdefc The f timber: is purchased in Wellington at 9s per hundred, freight being % per hundred -feet.. The timber for the tiew Post Office was also imported. Captain Cochrane sailed out of the river with 42 tons of iron on boaid; and reports very favourably of its capabilities, as, also (Captain Stewart, of the Lyttelton> who reports having found 8 feet tin the bar. Flour is landed here at £12 10a per ton,. . Settlers and storekeepers on the "West Coast do not as yet find it to their interest to resort to Foxton, the overland carriage from Wellington being £5 a ton, The drawback to a, trade with Foxton, is over 4 miles of very heavy sand; needing ■ three horses to pull an ordinary dray. They have then a tax of 6s at the, ferry, .wjfeuqh, js.ra.gqqd deal for a poor man to pay, who visits the locality to procure : a few* ; 'articlei3 for ! til,e use of his family. 'We thint: i the local ferryman should be ■. more moderate in his demands. In Groften Groher's " South of Irelandv ?? ;pvJ'6l,-hestateSi " We crosßedtheHiver BlabkVat.er ; dt Ardmore, here dividing thfe| Cojjnties of Cork and Watejtford j; in the public: ferry boat. to shore is neaKtyiianiEnglisbi'mife. i)!! It is perhaps the cheapßsVfe*rj;iii .the United Kingdom^ the chayge for , grossing and returning ; bn the same day being only one ipenny each. passenger> yet this brings in t a considerable revenue to the corporation of Youghall." The/di|aysihapini fr|)m I'p^toni )aslf £5 pef 100 feet for carting down timber. . This- isitkought overnilicli.'