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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 399, 12 February 1879, Page 2

At the last meeting of the Patea County Council, tho Foreman of Works "reported that Mr McLean, on Mountain Road, was still going on with his contracts. He had about thirty men employed, and the Foreman had been urging him to put on more, to get the work through, but Mr McLean complained of labour being very scarce,and that ho was now employing every available man. Manning and Hughes’ contract had just been finished ; and W. Aikuvan’s would bo finished in two days. These last named contractors had exceeded their contract time. Dingle Bros, had commenced gravelling their two mile contract, starting at. Johnston’s Hotel. The first gravel pit they opened, on tho Waingongoro River, turned out very inferior, and the Foreman condemned it. Since then, they had been taking gravel out of the bed of the Waingongoro River. Tins gravel was very good, but required extra labour to break it. Dingle Bros, had asked that a man should be allowed them l for a few days, to assist in breaking thestone. If all the gravel could be got out of the river bed, it would be well to givethe assistance asked. Burk and Company had got on well with their contract, and expected to finish in ten days from date.The road between the old school-house and Hawera, required attention. About 500' yards of gravel would patch it, and put it in a passable state for winter.- Three men,together with horse and dray, bad been at work on the Waimato Plains. They haddone up the approaches to the bridges, and mended culverts where required. The old sheeting of the bridges had been used for' culvert covers. The Foreman hoped itT another month to be able to take these men' off the Plains. The surface men had been' employed cleaning out culverts and water'

tables, and attending to the newly gravelled road, to keep up the centres. The' Manawapou hill was setting, and waslikely to continue good throughout next winter,- as a little rain would have a beneficial effect. Delamore’s No. 26 curr=~*~' tract had been completed. Woller bad been at work on contract No; 27, and would have it finished this month. Hughes'had about three-fourths of contract No 25’ done, and would have it finished in about ten days. Specifications for light tracks bad been drawn out. They' were to be 12' feet wide. Between the Bankof Australasiaand the Post Office, at Waverley, there’ was a dangerous hill. About two feet taken off the top would bea'great improvement, and the cost would be but trifling. The Foreman had erected a toll gate at Waitotara, on the 17th January, according to instructions. On the 27tb, Mr Adam : Wilkie attached his horse to it, and pulledit down. It was put up again, and on' Tuesday, the 28tb, the same gentleman brought an axe and cut it down. Wilkie’ was still carting gravel over the Waitotarabridge. Holloway's Pills give instant relief.Indigestion gives rise to a large share of the maladies of mankind ; it occasions' * more miseries than the doctor knowsnamesfor. Indigestion springs from many causes, over which Holloway’s Pills exercise' the most perfect control. They act at once on the stomach, liver, bowels, and kidney’s, and correct their torpid, defective,or disordered functions. They restore the waning appetite, strengthen the feeble stomach, and spare the dyspeptic sick headache, and many nameless toirnents,- " They’ tecall every organ to a true sense of its duties. Holloway’s Pills , have with facility cured cases of bad digestion which had existed for a long time and baffled much medical, skill. They are reliable remedies for all varieties of indigestion..!