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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 16, 3 August 1886, Page 4

ASHURST.

(From Examiner.) i From a Correspondent.) There is little* news in this city of the t 1. • tribe. 1 believe a Foxton association I bi taken np2oiK) acres of Crown lands j up tbe I’dii.mgina, which they intend to ! ti« upv shoitly, s.» that frowning forests ' will " »on g v«* place to smiling home- I < i , and the district advance ill pros- j : • ' • . rid it the lower ferry, and it will i hoit!;. It completed, which will be aj great i nto the travelling public. Not | nefore it is want* d. That floating hearse ; that does duty for h punt has much to n Nser tor—the in ttiy extracts from tho 1 T* xt inu nt, loud jerky prayers with \ai iations, Ac. 1 ?a.v a passenger crossii • yesterday. He came to the side of the river and waited. After a time the teiryumn made his appearance on the op|Hisite s:de. He did not proceed with the v» h'citv of a swallow, lmt instead, adoj»t( d that of the tor toise arid meandered , over as if lime \\ »> no object. The traveller got on board, camped down on the i! or of the hearse and went to sleep, file ferryman would give ti e rope a jerk with one hand, then walk over and have I a look u. the slumbering ) assenger, then give the lope another j* rk with tlie other 1 ii.nl. He continued thus for a portion lot a day. After a time the passenger , i a t»ke to find he was just rounding the . rn, and in.-, teed was dymg from slarv- , \ti -u. Then a sweet Mil tile lit tip his : ethereal countenance that would have I indue* 1 a bull-dog to straddle bis tail a d hunt for ditude. I tlunk now if I w ant*-1 t go tmm here t«» Woodvillo and ! was crowded lor time, I would go around < « Wellington. But that atrocious ferry I i tb ■. i. | b: ulg. when completed will be a grand ( structure, but many j*eople say it is far • • narrow . Great credit is due to Mr ' Mr Nicholas fur the way in which he has <1 on the work since taking it in nuid.