THE WOODVILLE DISTRICT.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 18, 10 August 1886, Page 4

THE WOODVILLE DISTRICT.

(| lull AS Oft ASIONAL CoIUU.SPONDKST TO THK 0T.V1.0 "'iMl.s.t July 21. N.-mo tune Hgu 1 sent you a few lines about tins place. I now add a few mure. 1 write froLo l'uliiiitiia, tell miles south el \\, udvillit, but the fortunes ol l’aliialua and Woodville are one. Woimlvdie. as I said before, is the southern centre of the North Island. All the roads between Napier. New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Wellington mvessarilv meet there. The railway will reach W ihhlv ill*- in seven mouths. I rmnWoodvdie eastward, two roach lines runs as far as Palmerston, wive no the rails extend north to New Plymouth and south to Wellington. Win n it is tilled the tmie from Napier to Wellington will hu 13 hours. Of course to got from Woodville to Palmerston y»u go through the famous Manavvatu Gorge. Soon the railway will la- through it. one very heavy contract of four and a half miles having just been advertised. Now to return to Woodville. If vott go south you have three separate lutes of roaches on the road to tin- Wairarajsi. They go as tar as .Maunceville, anil there the railway begun* and through MaaterUm, over the liiiniit-ak* ranges, to the Empire city. North *>f Matin**-ville a big contract for about six miles ot railway is just advertised. In Woodville and Pahialua everything is feverishly busy. Depression is entirely unknow n. The continual passage of coachea, the incessant arrivals and de parture** of engineers, contractors, survey r». and so on, make tl.*' place a hive o! industry. Everywhere the carpenters an budding; in the virgin bush the axe it ever at Work. I» Pahialua th-ngs an even more unnaturally inflated. Tin place in ringed with sja-cial settlements under all aorta of mysterious regulations A year ago no budding existed save ■ miserable shanty called by courtesy i hotel. Now we havu a bi-weekly papci vvluch 1 enclose fer your pentad gi Uou 1

j ment; a fair hotel in process of recon- ' j struetion ; a Town Hoard ; a perfect army , of stores, boarding houses, uliices, and shanties. Ido not wish to encroach on ' your space, but I think some of your J I reodere will agroo that what is good for 1 '• he bee is good for the swarm, and con- t ' template our prosperity w ith a feeling ' that ut no distant date Otago will be j lust as busy, and of course on a far ] arger scale.—Otago Daily Times.