ABOUT ON THE GANGES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1333, 24 July 1883, Page 2

ABOUT ON THE GANGES.

B ■ r< W K Ranges, where the town, twMWf'could be seen » team o£ six Dunocks, with its driver and an attendant man on horseback, accompanied by a dog, on the opposite range of Pouawa, zouth from the AVhaUiipnkn Hills i and - - these whole equipage might be seen slowly and laborioujtW/hfrijJgfing .fa6i. Mo> o’clock at five. At one trme'sfrawmg up a'sfeep hili' face’ of breag-neck slope, at another cautiously djitofiring a slippery foidificute-angled sjiurj aud all tlttfolffi aeefoing-forget-.fulness of a trank-Qutoop of tfie diversified rßhga, which aseetiding with tfaWMraWij;':: but 1 why thosfi fiodP bullocks and their ’unfortui' nate driver* compelled to fclimb the range aqd jgnpre tfie, convenience of a road thar kna evidently been’ laid out wi , t 1 h the valley ,pf the Wai rn aft a rifoijeofoesthe soufid :pf ,tßet buttock driver’s whip, and! the hehbln'g of thi Vyice’s if the men in charge of the'team. But night find.-theta iti .-tlipir difficulties; ao ■ hotajewards the writer turned, and on the ■follwvrng' 'nidifotng the Pouawa Hilfs were visited bjthim, and there, rare wugfi ww ,Hhe team ff ad itg attendants The foss bf the establishmeit, AJrx M«M<twell„., wa., in, good - hurfior,. but, said he, “Well, I've ■'irieid'my ffihn4’Htinui»y ithtaga-Mnceii i came to the country,-but never till yeaterdfof (fffi"'F : dtlve,’tn t &y - bullocks; butthej beat me—l'm afraid m£ thbtn : di f#fo,tlf|it infernal maokine,' -' the! sledge, with ‘its rolls of barbed fenctni wire,-when flytag round these ftpfirs on one leg , you, bet, if I don't •give-ft a’wideiimrthi”'-.--'-i : Yesterday they had to leave the sledge- etld miauloadi on the hill* allv night and make away to their teOt'for/ sheltert: the' 'track’ for bullock team ■ is (useless: and the bullock driver —jin intelifoeht,'young Maori, told his employer, Mell.,that hewould manage lot the best; but-the-be»t, *»-it turned out, was but doubtful. However, the terrors and dangers of the undertaking Were overcome by three o’clock to-day, . Wednesday,, buj. not without vast patience,' skill, knd' a determination not to’give in. - 1 -• ■ - Tri a feW yeafo' time hence, this ’Pouawa'hill .road will I he! o£ iuefoitfo able benefit to the people of Qfoborpe. .By that time the river will be bridged and as an outlet to .the, tpwn, pleasure and fiefotfi seekerp pid enjoy the ride along the faces these very pictrifo, esque rapgpe,, down into the beautiful' Hamanafua‘Vejley t&itAj:' fafrioiis' luscious peaches—<ffit"oh sea beach to' Wain'ui, and back to town by the Bjfiti flat road. Those who hate eourtgeously land in the Pouawa block, will certainly have no reason to regret their venture. The farther one goes back from the near range.ofi hills (those on the western border of tile block) the better the land becomes j and although all—generally — upland, the plough mayfoo put in with.little trouble. A Mr Galbraith has a Targe atfoa hit pre*' sent ploughed. His example no doubt will so.op he followed by others in the same locality. On fine may look forward to see af an early date these flifo uplands laid out in homesteads with their qomfprtably adjuncts of paddock, field, orchard, garden, and and .mty due : hopeOilly add, itq.jijlage; for if self-contained the entire settlement w&fil'd’"‘be’ J so much the more-irfribing and profitable. So much for the New 'Zealand Company’s action ; and so much for the non-progreafove polipy, pf the enligh* tened original pMprtbftjrs of fhd'soil. Oii these ihmfanns there gilj., no doubt, be erected-in,. the future, houses of more than, (bps® merely convenient desprifi'tlof). Man>, foqno nud ar,teipcra.ti.c villas will spring Up here, where merchants kn a run holders will live ; arid ffir this reason i tire dtyh’foM'end’tJfociTig nature of the atmosphere on these uplands, so different from, .that, of the , miasmatic . flats and semi swamps and Broiling Band dunes ‘ lit '’ the ''gtfoit flat of poverty Bat;, extending as it does from Glafiifo'nc'’l'baiTM’lhfi'MtlWtfttf,’'! find from thfi’"flag«fiiaff'''st' the pilot isfatiofl fo,thc ; of Qrmond. - The lam’bing season hfo ijh’tt'b&inl me need, as in, rambling. pyer, thq/ [ranges two lambs were seen on Wha lai:poke, and one on Haiti. " ' 'I v