MANAWATU.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 837, 4 August 1881, Page 2

MANAWATU.

[j?]}oll OtJ& "SpBOIAL CoRRESEONDEHT.] FALMpsiONNqRiq, Aoqusr Sjnd. The distance betwepri Masfecton, a,nd, the Manawatu District is not so, long, and avopy day brings closer th,e already eft isting relations prevailing between the two, and it is, therefore of muoh importance ' to settlers of the Manawatu to know how matter stand with her sister district, and ''vice versa," I intend Sir, with.your promission, to constantly lay before your readers, the stops of progression, or otherwise being made by us, and what is most important to breedpra of stock, and runholders and the district generally, to report to you the stock sales in order that the jformer may com- S pare with the prioea realised in the Wai? rarapa, '' '•' ""''• ~ : • : " : - ;i lil The' sharee jn 'the Meat Breeding Company are being most eagerly sought after through,t tho Manawatu, and Bangitikei. Nearly every farrrjer, howorer small hjs qbldi'qgs is becoming a holder, whiUt tliq large holders' arfl taking immense jpterest jp the! anrlallarenjoßt'sansqinebftlJe ultimate, success of the qnder'taking, Iqdead if is said that the stock market has already as: surned a mora Bnbsta i nqia| positiqn, since the riioverqant was anfioipatecl, a[)4 from the advanced prices realised at ttye last sale of stbclc in, Falajoratoq, thefe would appear to be sonie foundation fqp the statement. 3eef.th.en realised £3 net head more than it had done for the last • three years, and etorp pattle were;in grea( demand, as were - sheep of all'olassei, tyncolns sold at 14s 2d per head at this - sale, a priqe.qnapproachedfor BomeyeaM, It is worthy to note that throughout'the winter, butohers. say they have had no ■ difficulty whatever in procuring splendid fat beef in any quantity) but reailyonecanv' not wonder, when one views thebeautiful grass paddcooks wherever one goes, Feed hastbeen most : abundant all 'through' r ,he winter, and stock flourishes accordingly. In and around Palmerston it-is estimated that BdriiH 20,000 acres of bush ar« being felled this winter, Which ever way one turris the sound of the bushman t axe may be heard, and the noble for«s

tree seems to bow its majojtio head to th» unerring stroke of its skyer. It is reaily astonishing to lee the numbers of men eQgaßod.m thia work; atill th* demand for more inoreiisej. There is not a labor. !? R , . raa J» unemployed in the diatriottnstH if he really wishes to work. A Bentleman a few days since called for tenders for felling a block of bush, 1 and tailed to obtain a single tender, In (he Jvairanga block aloue there are some three nnourhundied men employed in bush falling, and they appear to do very fairly «;!'•"' Road making in the latter block h b«mg pushed on, and soon this large district, ao lately a solid forest, will become » magnificent, grazing, and agricultural one. , The larger portion of tho 'land has been taken up. on deferred payments, and ;, in small blocks, which is a.very material Btap itowards progression as' largo boldly »Mi; are, to'my mind, a'most objectionable feature in every point of view, to the • colonization of the country. Under; the filiating ..circumstances the selector will ..presently be in a position to manage and cultivate the land he owns, and thus build up his own prosperity, whilst the . TO toto er j B on 'y»drawback to a new district, being a non-employer, and making littleomn üßeof the land which M holds, to the exclusion of a more deiirable. class of settlers. Palmerston must naturally become the town for all business transactions from both the Kairanga and Fitzherbert blocks. Comegently its progression is certain, and • should the West Coast railway terminuß . be fixed there, it will still further add to Hi suburbs, and eventually oause it to be Pije of the finest inland towns in New Zealand j but. speaking of the relations between this district and the Wairarapa, .I must not omit to mention the barrier between us, and tho one which will prove fatal unless ,soon remedied—l mean the bridging of the Manawatu river. I shall, in & future letter, refer more particularly ■ to this subject, and the road generally, as I'fear I have trespassed already, but I would advise oar friends of the Wairarapa to use every pans and exert every norve in the attempt to get the Forty-Mile flush road put into a thoroughly passable condition, it being a main trunk road, and its condition of the very utmost importance to two extensive districts. |resjure, brought to bear pn th,p Governwent in real earnest (mm both sideß of we Tararua Range oould not fail to have . its effect.