A NEW DISCOVERY.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 28, 15 July 1867, Page 3

A NEW DISCOVERY.

(To the Editor of the Waiea.ea.pa Meecuby.) Wairarapa, July 8, 1867. Sin, —As the Wairarapa is now thoroughly awake, after its long sleep, in the matter of road making, I think that I could not choose a better time than the present to make publicly known an important discovery that I made some years ago in road making,—although I made the discovery so long ago as I have stated, and communicated the same to several gentlemen that can vouch for the truth of my assertion, —I am at present in danger of being deprived of the honor to which I am .justly entitled by one of those gentlemen to whom I disclosed ray discovery having, at a public meeting, held on Saturday last, stated that he was the inventor of the new method of road making, which is now'known by the name of Burtonized roads. This simple methodf'of road making consists in depositing round boulders of various sizes, ranging from six to eighteen inches in diameter, placed about a foot apart from each other so as to let the wheel of a dray well down between them.

■Now, Sir, as nature has been sovcry kind to the on the West Taratahi plain as to Burtonize their roads lor them, they are now taking active steps to petition' His Honor the Superintendent not to include their Burtonixed plain in the proposed Taratahi Road District which was petitioned for on Saturday last. I hope that those favorites of nature may succeed in their effort to secure for themselves all the advantages that can be derived from the Burtonized roads that bountiful nature, in her kindness, so abundantly provided for her West Taratahi favorites. 1 am, &c., Observer. (To the Editor of the Mercury.) Wairarapa, July 11, 1867. Sir, —The “ Advertiser " of Wellington exclaims against the proposal to establish Telegraph offices at Feathersfon and Mastertou and not at Greytown, which it describes as the most populous township in the district. Although your paper is published at Grcytown, it claims Wairarapa as its own, and 1 do not .suppose you are so short-sighted as to identify it with Greytown interests as. against those of Wairarapa. Now I ask you and your readers whether supposing it to be decided to establish two telegraph stations in this valley, more suitable situations than Foatherston and Mastertou could possibly have been selected; Feather - stou for the lower portion of the district, Mastertou for the upper, It is not likely that the inhabitants of Greytown will themselves mrke much use of the telegraph. Your’s truly, WAIRARAPA.