OUR ORMOND LETTER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1070, 6 May 1882, Page 2

OUR ORMOND LETTER.

[from our own correspondent.] During the past week Mr Alfred Austen, of Makaraka, has been vending prime meat and pork sausages at very reasonable rates for quality and weight. He appears to have given every satisfaction. The late rains have not improved the roads inland and could have been well dispensed with. (Please telegraph to the clerk of the weather re the same matter as our telephone has not as yet started). During the past week the lucky leaseholders of the “ land reserves ” under the Education Act, lately offered for competition by tender by the Central Board, Auckland, have been very busy in erecting and removing houses, also in making drains, clearing land, and erecting fences. Grass seed is in a fair demand, and sowing the seed employs a large number of hands, the weather being very favorable at the present time for this labor. Our old host, Mr John Maynard, has not left us as yet. I fancy he likes the Ormondites too well. The dance on Friday night was not so well attended as it. probably would have been had the weather been favorable. Mr McCombe, a new inhabitant in our midst, has started boot and shoemaking, and appears to drive a thriving trade in his vocation at very moderate prices; undoubtedly he will be well patronised. Talking about, leather we must also go into dough. Mr Stephen Liddell, our new baker, has undoubtedly proved himself a proficient in his art as far as rendering a good article and correct weight, and receives a majority of patronage independently of keen competition. The rivers at the present time are pretty high owing to rain inland.