TOO LEISURELY.

Patea Mail, 3 January 1882, Page 3

TOO LEISURELY.

Fencing on the railway route proceeds so slowly , that settlers about Kakaramea are obliged to, grumble. The fence itself is not suitable for the loose soil of these parts, and it is a danger and disappointment when put up: It is hard to say which is most entitled to pity—the settlers whose open paddocks have at last been fenced, but, so.: lightly that cattle and 1 sheep are not safe, or the other settlers whose paddocks have been kept open more 'than a year, with i ‘ f unemployed ” making their homes and keeping-'dogs and cutting bush just as they “d- please.” Railways are a serious huisarice until fenced arid put in/ working: condition. , , Compensation clainis heed more attehtioh here. Some _ farms/have: been ,open to all sorts of people and /dogs : -ajid' l ; ariiibyances for lover a year,, and: ,Mr/ Brewer, has so, many duties* that' hehas not ’beep able! yet to say a word about compensation, jnor even to ask bow much is wanted, lin several caseC This'dawdling is to'o Itifesdme. / ; The Mutual Gas Company,. Wellington, has received 6,000 applications for .shares. I A proclamation has been issued dbf daring that the posting of notices to quit will henceforth be deemed good service in the disturbed districts in Ireland. The girl that/ Sir Charles "Gavan Puffy -- formerly « Chief Secretary, ,of Victoria married in Paris, was his niece; formerly Miss Hall, of Rock Ferry, Ireland. Sir Charles is 65 y«ars of age, and Ids young wife barely 21. ■ ■ - ?