URUTI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81882, 6 November 1906, Page 3

URUTI.

t I'ROM OUk OWN CORKKSI'O.NDEXT. i The weatlvr has again taken up. i! and Ihe roads are in lir.-t I'las.s order. 1 Road work is be ng vigoiously pushed •ahead on all sides. The County Council are pushing on the repairs to the roads about heie, and if the fine weather continues we can hope to have Ithem all in much better order this coming winter than they were the ast. Mr \V. Clare has nearly completed the shoot for guw'ng the metal fiom the new gravel pit. There is a great deal of discussion over this shoot, which is erected wholly of timber. Many old hands at such work eontend that it will go lo pieces in less than three months, as ; t will not be slicing enough to stand the continual I rush of metal down it. Others say I that it will become cemented with the

damp metal and will have to be scraped out every now and then. For my own part. 1 think it would have been much better and more peimanent had the Council purchased the old iron shoot from Messrs Cameron and Brooking. This could have been bought for about fifty pounds, and erected for another fifteen or twenty, whereas the one erected wi'l cost upwauls of a hundred and twenty pounds.

Away in the- Moki work also is being vigorously pushed ahead, and we hope to sec Whangamomona settlers out through this way before the summer is over. A foot-track is now

open through the bush to Whangamomona, and some of the men on he road have been through and back. One went through quite unexpectedly the other day and forgot to come back. The local storekeeper only received a nicely worded faiewell note. Mr G. T. Murray, of the Roads 'Department, is expected through in a day or two. He is going by Whangamomona and back through the bush to Unit!. Our local engineer, Mr E. Ju. ; ian, has gone in to meet him on this side. No doubt Mr Murray is an energetic district eng.neer. He is always on the move somewhere n the back blocks, seeing for himself the disabilit.es of the back block settlers. 1 ventute to say that had Mr Murray mote power in his own hands he roads would be always kepi in a butter state than they are. There are several very nasty cliffs ;n the Moki, and the Minister should be approache ] with a view to getting a ten-foot track .listead of a six-foot around ihem. These cliffs are extreme.y dangerous, having a straight drop, some of them of one hundred and (illy feet. At one place the track has slipped away, and is not more than four feet wide, and when a pack horse lias to go round these with a bulky sway on each side there is none too much room. Now is the time to advocate the widening of these, dangerous places, and have tjicm pointed out to Mr Murray. The track through will not be used much as a traffic track until these places are widened, as it would be too danger otis to drive cattle past them. Last Friday was quite an eventful day in Uruti, and by some will be long remembered. On Friday the funeral of Mr and Mrs VY. Oxenham's infant daughter took place. The little one died suddenly on Tues day night of convulsive fits. Deep sympathy is felt for die bereaved parents. This was their only ch Id. Aso in the morning Mr Charles Burnett was thrown from a young horse which he had been breaking in, and had lis leg broken just below the knee. We hope he will make a speedy recovery, and soon be back among us again.

ln the afternoon Mr D. S. Murkes biouhgt home his bride, he having been married on Tuesday in Auck land to Mi~s J. Vosper, of Tikoraugi; We all join in wishing the young couple long hfe and happ.ncss. On Friday night the Hal Company held a grand masquerade plain and fancy dress ball, and many and varied were die dresses. The beautiful clear night tempted many out who would not otherwise have come. A most enjoyable niglu was spent. Dancing commenced at about 8.30, and was kept up unt 1 three in the morning. The following is a list of some of ihose who were in fancy dress:—Miss Mav McKenzie, Fol v; Miss Day, schoolgirl; Miss M. Day, 'sweet seventeen"; Miss ]J. Day, L'lutl Dairy Company; Miss Stockier. Princess Fieametta; Miss Willison, Ismoralhy; Alias Davies, Grace Darling; Miss Cutbush, Spanish lady; Miss Jones, Russian peasant giii; Mrs Mammon, Caller- 'Err:n; Mrs J. To par. Royal family; Mr Mammon. Mexican cowboy; Mr Mackay, a Scottish ollieer in full dress; Mr McKellar, Uruti young lady; Mr Aroa courtier; Mr G. Jessal, stock rider; Mr G. Eraser, cook; Mr Tweedie, come lunatic. Perhaps one of the most comical hits of the evening was Mr 1). McKellar, dressed up in one of the local young ladies' ball dresses, and for some little time many thought it was the young lady herself. One gentleman had a waltz w'tli him, and then remarked that that young lady he had been dancing with was a splendid dancer.