WOODVILLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 27 June 1882, Page 3

WOODVILLE.

[FBOM OUR OWN CORKE3PONDENT.]

It is ;Some time since I wrote you any news of this-locality. We are still living, and that jb something. The 'township is improving, but I am sorry to say the License. Commissioners refused a new license for houses in Danevirke and Woodville. Had the licenses been granted,

the manager of the Bank of .New Zealand

wm up looking fur a situ fur a bank, but After refusal of license to another hotel jkl said we could wait another year for a : ' " Wanted, wanted, wanted," stares you in the faco everywhere, and. no Gupply of latw. Buihfallers are getting 61 per acre more than last year, and are "Mftry scarce at that. Splitters can't bo got at any price, and fencers command a long 'figure per chain. Carpenters are, eagurly inquired after, and I know of one '[■_ .firm of builders who are sending to Wei- '.',' lington for men. The Freo Methodist Church has not keen started yet, as tho contractor can get other "better paying jobs, A large wheelwright's shop is the •latest addition going up. They are are giving the new steam saw mills a - pinch to supply the demands upuu it, and the proprietor tells me that he has orders that will keep the mill going for nine months ' I'waß rather ..surprised to learn the quantity of flour imported into this town per week, and I give it you as showing in some ■degree the growth and. extent of ; settlement. The consumption runs to six •■' tons per week. I notice the 'Manawaln • papers are pushing their claims for railway through the gorge to Palmerston, and as, they . quietly assert, command the whole of the trade of this fine district, especially when . the West Coast railway is completed, connecting Palmerstou with Wellington, ;Novr I think it behoves you Wairarapa ; . '■'. people t«..push forward your railway "/, . tlirdu.Jj the Forty Mile--Bush as. that .is tliii'natural course a railway should ' .; run, and it would run tbiough' a fine bush ! country^'which'is'being rapidly settled '".'.' upon. Now r to.give you an example of ' ,', how, some people argue, I wilt give you the eiact w,ords I heard only last Satur- ,..■ . day, l( Why if thauailway was completed " '.. the ; ; piiople all through the Fortj am- •" Bush and Woodville would get their ' .jsuppliei from Masterton, because, that is ...a cheaper .place than any.in Manawatu." ...Dr Harvey is leaving this district on -the 29thinst., the committee having dis- : / posed "of his serviced and have advertised : i/agftin- for another, but M.D.'s seem scarce , . :'br- wantaome very exorbitant salary. ', "We are offering £l3O porannum'as bonus and all he can earn, besides the two Societies'; The lowest estimate would be about .£4OO per annum, but that don't ■ seem to tempt anyone so far. . . ThePlymo'ith Brethren re-open their "Church to-night with'a-service of long : . entitled " Eva" by! the Foilding choir, I .'expect there will be a larßfl'gatheringi.'