The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13M 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 818, 13 July 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13M 1881.

Tub Chairman -of Comity West has expressed an opinion that the County work is likely to assume larger proportions during tho ensuing year. Mr Phahazyn is not one who would make such Mt&t-iemoiit without he had substantial grounds oji syjiich to fonnd it. It is probable that within tfre next twelve months the Council may have a sum from Government votes, and advances under the proposed scheme of Major Atkinson' which will amount in the aggregate to iifteen or twenty tliousitii.c} pounds. The expenditure of so largo a sura wjl keep the County Councillors and the County (staff well employed. The public moneys which have already been expended by the County have led and are leading-to a genuine settlement of the waste lands in the northern part of the Waivarapa, and intjireotly the populating of these lands are beneficial tp tjje trade and prospfii'ity of tjie more settled pqrfciquti of the district.. Though the efforts of the County Council for tho past three years have been mainly concentrated on the works north of Masterton, they have been favorable to the extension and development of the County as a whole. At the last Council meeting Moore obtained an unanimous expression of opinion in favor of opening up the Eangitumau Block for settlement. •We anticipate that Mr Booth, whom we hope to see shortly as a member of the County Council, will be.successful in convincing' his colleagues that there are blocks in the neighborhood of; Carterton which require only roads to become tho hora,es. of q-n in-

dustriiil population. •/ Tlio raission; of the Comity, in fact, is to open up for settlement all the, outlying districts which: can 'be profitably .'occupied by, snmll farmers., We are glad to see that Councillors recognise more fully-their, responsibilities, not only to maintain the lines of-communication through tlio more settled portions of the Wairarupn, but also to link to them outlvlyijig and sparsely-populated.country,. The result must necessarily be a rapid' development of trade in the Wairarnpa, and a marked yearly.'increase in its ini dustrinl population and the extent of land under cultivation, The .Council has, as we have said, a mission which, it is steadily and successfully fulfilling.' Unlike County East, it is imbued with a spirit of progress which has already led to substantial advantages, and which will yet lead to still more , important results'...Wo are very doubtful whether County East has a mission; If it has, it betrays it by no outward sign, We trust yet to see the sister County more active in tlie work of settlement than it apparently is now. We hope yet to see it display the energy in constructing roads which is visible in the western County, We shall never be satisfied till there is a good macadamised road every foot of the way from Masterton to Castlepoint, with every intervening stream bridged over. - In such a work both Counties East and West ought to band together, and we yet expect to see a proposal to accomplish a work so benelicial to the whole of the district favorably entertained by leading settlers on all sides. .