WOODVILLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 846, 15 August 1881, Page 2

WOODVILLE.

(FROM OUIt OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Again I have to report a failuro of tenders for Messrs Harman's' Bush falling contract. Nobody would touch it. The Agent has at last come to his senses and cut it into small contracts, and omitted those very objuctonal clauses so there is Borne chance of this work now being taken up, and hope shortly to be able to report work in full swing, also Messrs McCardle and Alexander in the same block. The weather has beep exceptionally rough and stormy'with lieavy rain, and ail rivers are bank high. All trayellini> by coach or otherwise is rendered extremely risky by those two very' dangerous Ferries; indeed both these places want bridging, the Upper Ferry especially, as the trafhc on this road is constantly increasing'and a great'many. Bottlers' and buahman working on the Pahiatua Block are drawing their supplies from Woodville as nearest town, this' fiver is felt as a great drawback to .■this' very fine district,

Any amount .of work for bushmen going on at present, and unemployed about the cities could easily find work that will pay them in this district. Hundreds of acres are being cleared this year about Woodville, and any one passing through in a year or two will hardly "recognise the place again. Several sections of land on the Masterton road towards the river.are being felled, making gr«at improvement in that part. "'"' ' ~'\) , ' Mr McDonald is" starting a fellraongery here, and will be prepared to

buy Bheep'aiid J other hides,. This will be a great .batiefi6 t^to v squattGra as the sheepskins were generally thrown away, very little gpfifcir hidos. We wish hji(i every j U_am sorry that one oLMr of Greytown) lttle boysriyMr old.'gofc burned to death last week. The policeman wont ovor, and was satisfied that it was purely accidental, and ordered the body to be buried without the usual inquest. '' <}\