OHINEMURI.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1732, 20 April 1895, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

(By our own Correspondent.) Paeroa, Thursday. The appointment of Valuer for this district under the Advances to Settlers Act, 1894, which Mr Edwin Edwards ha3f is no sinecure, for he has. to obtain a mass of information on each separate application, fill up voluminous forms, visit and report on the properties on which loans are applied for, and’also send a tracing of each separate property. . The S.S. Waiotahi came in from Auckland this week, bringing 50 tons of coal for the Silverton G.M. Co., and also 4 drays and 16 horses belonging to J. J. Craig, the well-known Auckland carter, who has got the contract for carting put to Waihi 300 ton of staff for the Silverton Company. The-local carters have got plenty of work, there being fully 300 tons of goods now lying on the wharves and in .their yards to be carted up country, machinery, coke, rails etc, to say nothing Of what eaclpsteamer brings up. .The enormous volume of traffic which will be carried- on by drays between. PaeroA and Waihi during the next two or three months will, I fear, have the effect of cutting up the road, though the County ’Council has done its best, so far as their resources have allowed, them, to make it fit for heavy traffic. ,

The Railway Bridge is going ahead, pile-driving etc. The centre span of 60ft. will not be closed until- the last moment, so that steamer traffic will not be interferred ivith till the new wharf is ready. lam told: on good authority, that it will take two. months good, if not three months before the bridge is completed, and that the line will not be open between Te Aroha and Paeroa before the Ist July at the soonest. - By that time, j however, everything should be ready, station, station-masters house, etc. ’

The new Court-house seems to be as far off as ever from being built, and the longer the delay, the more evident it will become. I should think, that it should be built at the lower township, which is .being rapidly built upon and where the railway when it is open will induce still further building. At the present time there are no less than six new. houses going, up, and more are talked about. Among the latter is an Auctioneers Mart, which Mr John Kennedy, who has lately taken out a. license, intends erecting on the corner opposite the Royal Mail Hotel, the best site in the township. ' ;