TONGAPORUTU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 204, 23 October 1900, Page 2

TONGAPORUTU.

(from ouk own corresfosdent.) The Nora Bradßhaw left Waitara at last. She anchored oft the mouth of the river last week. She lay there waiting for a favourable wind three or four days. Once in a way the wind would not change, but kopt blowing down the rmr from the south and south-east all the time, an unusual quarter, as it generally blows from the west. The obstinacy of the witd wearied the captain, so he hoisted sail and made for the Mokau, but was to ooner gone than the wind turned round to the north-west. The skipper would not return, but is discharging bis cargo At Mokau. The parties tc< whom it is consigned will have to hau' it over seven miles of a muddy road, besid'S boating it across the Tongapi.TUtU,

The rain keeps falling tvoty day, the roads are all but impossible. The Government Iris placards at evory conspicuous angle of the read cautioning persons from trespassing in put suit ol metal or stone, in either mi untam or stream. There is neither metal nor atone in this part of the coast, except sandstone, and mountains of it could well be spared. Surveys are being pushed ahead, two parties being about to commence on the east side of the river, where there is a large area of unsurveyed land; chiefly second-class rolling downs, the grades being rather steep,