OHAUPO.

Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 133, 13 May 1897, Page 2

OHAUPO.

Lrai-sFAixnN - Tuiiikarasiea Road.—l see the road is now open from Ohaupo through Innesfallen to Tuliikaramea, and the new budge seems to be a good struc • ture. but thcic is a small hill close to the biidge that I think requires a little more grading. It is very short but very steep. There are only two gates on the read now, and they will be removed very soon, as the road is being fenced on both sides through Messrs Williamson's property, a distance of about two miles. No doubt it will be expensive for Messrs Williamson, but they will uot be so likely to lose so many sheep by their getting mixed with droves, as they pass through to and from the fairs, especially on moonlight nights, I was talking to the manager( Mr Gardner) the other day, who told me the posts he was using were taken out of the swamp, and were the remains of an ancient forest, underlying the pre-seut bush. The timber is very durable, some stockyard pests having been up over twenty years arc now as sound as the day they were put up. No body seems to know what sort of timber it is, as there is nothing like it i'.i the forest that is now growing on top. it splits easily and is something like kauri in appearance. The manager intends sending a block to Mr Chcese.man, to see if he can give it a name. It is evidently some sort of timber that does not now giow in the Wuikato. Ax Improved Traction Engine.—Mr Wallace's new traction engine is doing good work and is giving general satisfaction. It would astonish some to see the rough places it goo? over, drawing its load with the greatest ease. It is fitted with the litest improvements, and it goes down hill as steadily as on the level. So long as the ground is hard, up and down hill oeems all alike.—(Own Correspondent).