PIGEONGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2882, 11 May 1878, Page 2

PIGEONGRAMS.

OSnTEKURI.

(FBOM OtTB OWN COBBEBPONDENT.)

Paeboa, This day.

The work on the Paeroa-Puke road is going on satisfactorily. A party of the Ngatikoe started to-day, to work on the Paeroa-Katikati road from a point on the. Waihi plains to wards tlieHikurangi Gorge. The County Chairman had a .private meeting witu some of the principal Aroha natives at Ihe Ohinemuri junction before leaving by the steamer this morn* .ing. I hear that they want the road now in course of construction to be widened, so. as *.j equal the road at Eirikiri. They also wish the road to be extended through Wairakau, and on towards Tauranga; aud they intend to petition the Government to assist" the County Council to erect a substantial traffic bridge over the Wailiou river, so as to complete communication with Piako and the Waikato. It is very pleasing to find that the obstructions are being cleared away so quickly, and I -hope that the Government will do all in their power to assist in carrying out the proposed works without delay. The County Chairman, Mr A. Aitken (County Surveyor), Capt. Fraser, Mr Puckey, and c hers, loft for the Thames immediately after the meeting with the Aroha Natives terminated.

A New Fable.—An honest farmer once led his two turkeys into his granary and told them to eat, drink, and be merry. One of these turkeys was wise, arid one foolish. The foolish bird at once indulged excessively in the pleasures of the granary, unsuspicious of the future; but the wiser, fowl, in order that he might not be fattened and slaughtered, fasted continually, -mortified his flesh, and devoted himself to gloomy reflections upon the brevity of life. When Thanks* giving approached, the farmer killed both turkeys, and by placing a stone in the interior of the prudent turkey made him weigh mere than his plumper brother. Moral; Be happy while you may/ . r

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