Tongaporutu.
(From Our Correspondent.) The roads, the principal topic of conversation in these parts, are still muddy, and in many places all but impassable. The wet season and the bad drainage are decidedly against them.
The mails are still earned om horseback, end apparently will be for some time. That enterprising carrier, Sangstfer, from Urenui, has been through lately with two loads of stores, but he has powerful teams that nothing can atop. Football, which was the rage sotne time back, has died qut; the same appliesHo cricket. Dancing, too, is less regular. There was a bachelors' ball at Mokau tihe otlicr evening, when all the young people of the district met, and a smattering of the aged as well. Socially and financially it was a great success. Work—'bush and road work—is plentiful in the Okau and upper regions of the Tongaporutu. The versatile Mr R. O'Domiell is making strenuous efforts to procure an oil launch to run between TonigaPorutu and Waltar®. The dairy industry! is backward this season, very little tatter going out just now. The cows are coming in late, and the grass is backward. A lower price for the article has got 1 to be accepted. i
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 254, 31 October 1904, Page 4
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200Tongaporutu. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 254, 31 October 1904, Page 4
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