FEILDING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5156, 1 October 1877, Page 3

FEILDING.

(FROM odb own correspondent.) In the estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the Manchester County Council there is a saving of £2OO in the coat of County Engineer from the amount at first estimated, and the executive seem to coat nothing at all for printing, stationery, and rent of offices, although there is £l6O 10s, entered among the miscelfaueous for those three items. There is an item of £1592 2s. for main road maintenance, asagainat £1645 for roadformation; andof this larg°e amount for road maintenance only about £9O goes to the two northern ridings of Manchester and Kiwitea. Those who formed themselves into a committee some time ago at Saudon to get signatures to a petition against the separation of the Kiwitea and Manchester ridings from the county, have concluded their labors with a very striking result in favour of separation. The latest addition to our social progress is the establishment of a Eielding Choral Society. It numbers over 30 members. Mr. A. Ik Halcombe has been elected president ; Mr Macarthur, vice-president; Mr. Nicholas, conductor; Messrs. Lash.Kempthorne, Grimes, Nicholas, and J. H. Jackson, the committee, of which the president and vice-president are ex-officio members. ~ . A question of some considerable interest is receiving some ventilation among the settlers here, viz., the injury that is done to our country roads by placing heavy weights on the narrow tire-wheels of carts and waggons. Some settlers who came here from Canterbury speak very highly of an Ordinance of that district, where the breadth of the tire has to bo increased in proportion to the number of horses attached to the vehicle. The same object is sought to he attained in the province, where there are tolls levied and a heavy charge made on narrow tires passing through the turnpike ; but in places where the roads are maintained out of rates without any tolls, the Canterbury Ordinance is to the Wellington one. At all events that is the opinion I hear expressed on a question of no small interest to the country ratepayers. Mr, Wame, who is well known in the Wairarapa district as a resident in Greytown, and subsequently at Taratahi, has settled lately in Tedding, and built for himself a commodious dwelling-house, and has established a door and sash factory, where a small steam-engine is used. The factory is worked upon a co-operative principle, which seems to succeed at Eeilding in the hands of the people known here as the “ Brethern,” who work very harmoniously together in various industries, such as farming, building, &c.