PIGEONGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3020, 19 October 1878, Page 2

PIGEONGRAMS.

OKINEMTOI.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBBKBPONDBNT.) i

Paeboa, This day. j People here are anxiously waiting to see: what amounts the Government will put on the Estimates for public works in this district. The Hon. Mr Sheehan promised some time ago to get a sum v.oted for the construction of a traffic bridge over the Ohinemuri river. It is rery badly wanted, as settlers on the other side have great difficulty in getting their produce down to Paeroa for shipment to the Thames. I know one settler who has a large stock of potatoes on hand, but unless he gets a good price for them he had better feed pigs with them, as the cost of getting them down to the Paeroa wharf by canoe or punt is as much as the freight thence to the Thames. Another great want is the extension of the telegraph to this place. I understand that Mr W. Howe, M.H.E., has been requested to ascertain what the Government intend doing in this matter. If they cannot surmount the Komata native difficulty, they should bring the line from Katikati (through the Hikurangi Gorge) without delay. There can scarcely be aD*y Native difficulty in that direction, seeing that, besides the deed of cession of the intervening, country for goldmining purposes secured over three years ago, the Government Land Purchase Agents have lately been engaged buying the freer hold of the goldfield block. The line will have to be taken that way sooner or later, as the present line, via the East Coast, is very expensive to maintain, and was originally adopted simply as a. make-shift. Another question agitating the minds of people here, is the unaccountable delay in the re-erection of the Government Buildings, removed from Mackaytown some months ago ;<but of that, more anon. We leave the rail* way question in your hqnds, as, although we are equally interested with you in its construction, we think that agitation at your end will have greater weight.