WOODVILLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 834, 1 August 1881, Page 2

WOODVILLE.

(From (]ur Own Correspondent.] ; July 26th 1881. Since last writing we have had a visit, from the Lorf} sisl)op of \Vaipu, who: held a oonflrmatfot)''ii)''t!)o , 'scl)oq!ron[|) on Thuraciay'tlie 19tli iiißt.', ij'hen 815 confirmed and a number of others' tqokj sacrament after Bpryice. 1 Mr large bualirfalljncf contract is : now put, but flvyjrm |p-! insufficient;, notice and specifications being drawn out' in Buch a ridiculous style, I arp afraid no; tender will bo sent in. Just fancy nearly! ■2O pages of foolscap closely written with all sorts of absurd olauses fur a buslv fallingrcontract, perhaps, a, few clauses, would be instructive; it runs, in brief' "Notenderer to supply any workman with stores. No tenderer to employ men not approved of by Inspector. - 'Every man to' be paid in full every fortnight, No' tenderer to pay in public house at\d : ■specife payment. Every tree to be fell* flat along the gfoqnd, &c. Five per cent.! to'be tendqr.!' Cjld ejeri-j enced bushmen tell me tney neveraa^ or' heard of specification before,'arid! that it might a]l be embqdiod'in tht4j reasonable .glaqsgs. Renders close on j Saturday, ' I . Wp i)aye had, two yery high ,floods : diiring thg last few days, and a 'of rain, ha? fallen, biiV froiji reports: to i hairt,l <Wt think we hare W worse 1 than other places, ;'; • ;