OHINEMURI.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1715, 16 February 1895, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

(By our own Correspondent.) Paeroa, Thursday. The work on the Railway Bridge is not yet started, owingj I believe, to the ironwork not having arrived. As soon as the men begin to drive in the piles the navigation will be obstructed, a matter to which attention was drawn at the last meeting of the Council, as it will be imperative-to make the road from the old wharf to the new wharf (about a chain below the site of the bridge), passable for the heavy traffic which will pass over it. The road to the wharf will be down Wharf Rood and along the Esplanade, past the Gazette office, Mr McAndrew’s timber yard, and Mr McGoehah’s house. JBailding is still being carried on all over Paeroa, but more especially in the freehold portion. Besides the contracts now in hand by Mr McAndrew and Moore and O’Hara, Mr J. M. Coote is calling for tenders for a cottage close to the wharf, opposite Mr Edwards’ house, and it is his intention, I hear, to put up three more cottages in the same place by and by.

The opposition steamer, the Ngu nguru, will shortly commence running regularly between Auckland and Paeroa, once a week. She is a fine cargo boat, but not by-any.means a fast one. Mr John Kennedy has been appointed local agent for Paeroa. Should sufficient inducement offer she will run offener.

At the Warden’s Court on Tuesday last, the 12th inst., there was a very long list of applications of all kinds, the longest for many a months past—for licensed holdings, special claims, water-races, dams, residence sites, etc. but the whole business was got through with by the Warden by about 12.30 o’clock. There was quite an army of legal taleut present, .Messrs Miller and Clendon (from Thames), and Kenrick and McVoagh (‘ own own ’). .1 understand that'Mr J. M. Robson, the well-known storekeeper l in Paeroa has disposed of theJwhole of his business to Mr Price, yf|Te Awamutu, and that it will only be. a . matter of a few weeks before he and his family will bo. leaving, for the Waikato it is said, where he contemplates going into farming. The weather for, tho last few days has been m; jgnifieent, and the contractors are making. g rfla . p ro gress with their various contracts. ,A moo pbght excursion on the river th. S evening 08. to steamer Patiki in aid of the Paeroa -Brass Band. The moon wi l not rise very early, but tho ‘lads and will patronise not find any fault for parto . f I hope Now? 1 T bother them ! .Now that Paeroa* has got a resident i I ? ail, . tl10 next thing needed is agood There is a sent 1 ***** 01 ‘ such here at pre-