WOODVILLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 3 April 1883, Page 2

WOODVILLE.

(FKOM OUB OWN cobbbsponbeot.)

It is now some time ainca I have giren you any. isems from Woodville); bat everything has been very quietj; and steadily progressing. ' Land "' is ' being largely bought'tip, and large 'quantitiel of bush will be fallen during the present season. From information'.Lhave received, there will be .about -3000-:! acres fallen this winter, and prices: will bfl pretty high. The settlers of Woodville andPahiatui will be very glad' when they'hear thi tenders for the Manawatu Bridge hare boen aocepted, This work will caaii many more settlers to get on to theil land,

Mr Bountree has nearly finished the additions to Mr Murphy's Hotel, and the Woodville Hotel will then compare with iiny country hotel in the Hartke'a Bay district.

Mr Hunter, the contractor for'MoKen* zie's new Hotel, has made a commence' ment, and will soon have the framework ' into position, It bi3s "fair to be a large, substantial building, with an extensive stabling accommodation. Messrs Troupe and Puttinson have pulled down their butcher's shop and art having a lirge shop and dwelling 'put tip in its place, the framework of which ij now up The size roughly will be! frontage, 34ft by 27ft deep; 20ft stud. Mr Bevan's photographic studio is receiaing its finishing touches of- -paint, &0., and will shortly be open for buainessi The Temperance Hotel is now opeD) and appeared to be doing a thriving trade. Board and lodgings cheap and no beer, There has been a great land sale id Napier of Woodville land, The paddock known as Macara's on the Masterton road has been out up into quarter aoreieelioDi and realised the handsome sum of (average) J219 per acre. There is to be another large sale on 6th April in Napiet of another suburban land seolion of 40 acres into quarter seres, which I suppose will-realise equally satisfactory ; priqet) but I shall predict that in five years' time you will be able to buy the eanie sections at half the prioes they aro selling for at present, Tho mania -will' behove? by that. There is no question the towil sections on the main road will always be valuable, but what,value thoße quarter acre sections are a mile or two out, and at present being advertised as Woodville township seotions, time alone will tell, I am happy to be ttble to state we'have formed a Cheese Faotory Company with a capital of 2000 Bhares of one- pound) which Jb being registered and land_ ie« cured, and buildings &o will all be up "and in working order, to commence early in the Spring. With our splendid country i hey ought to turn out the best oheeso in New Zealand, ' ■ , " ■ The eleotion of a Licensing Committee was rather a boil oyer for the 1.0.G.T.'b, They nominated four out of the five, and ran them, but not one of them were eleei ted, and this has brought out tome ,'very spiteful poetical effuaions. They havi not had such a Bnubbing before in Wood* ville, and naturally they thought they' could rule the hotel business, but were surprised to find they had miscalculated public opinion, There is considerable sickness herd now, and the want of a medical man, is severely felt by many. Some short time since we had two full blown M.13. V.bul they both left, the same day, and since then we have been without anyone. With a population oi 1600 and a triot (for a M.D. could easily TOk Pahiatua as well),'there ought to be a ,ir? good living for any active young man. j

We learn (says' Modem Society 1 ) that in a cause cekbre, which will shortly engross: the attention of the public,, a ,'lady occupying the honest, if humble, situation of barmaid, will ask -an : intelligent jury for heavy damages of breach of promise of marriage. The defendant is a scion of one of those noble houses whose peccadilloes afford so much material for envious people to work upon/- f rThero is every chance that the drama will prove "new and original" in mord senses than one. . Bolto's opera, "Nero,", which has been so long talked of, is to be produced at, Brussels at Easter. ' It is stated that in Germany during the last six years nearly 900 servants •have obtained the Empress's Order of the Golden Cross, which is- I 'bestowed only on women who have served in the same family for forty years., jit speaks well for the servants and equally well for the mistresses.' Do you not think so.?