WOODVILLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1418, 30 June 1883, Page 2

WOODVILLE

(prom our own correspondent.)

I have not written fqr some months I think, but I see your Pahiatua correspondent's letter of June Ist abuses me in round terms.- First be states a letter headed Pahiatua should have been headed Woodville, Why ? Does he pretend to know the secrets of your office. He then proceeds to abuse the Woodville correspondent about writing of Pahiatua matters, when your said correspondent oan hardly find time to give you a bit of Woodville news. If I hadn't thought him a lunatic I should have answored him before, but I can inform him I shall not, and never have, written anything either about Pahiatua or its road board.

, Mr McKenzie, the contractor for tho Upper Manawatu Bridge, is beginning to get the timber on the ground, and expects to have between thirty and forty men at work within the next few weeks,

. The contractors for the new building for Bank of New Zealand arrived yesterday, and have commenced operations to-day oleaving away logs and stumps, and the timber is being rapidly placed on the ground, They expoot, with moderate fine weather, to have it wmpletedin three months. It will be a very handsome one storey building with iron roof, and inside very neatly polished and pannelled. Tho cost, I understand, is about eight hundred pounds.; Mr McKenzie's new hotel is drawing near feompletion,.and would make a vory handsome corner if the architect had not tried to make a square building fit an oblique angle, and thereby rendering it the most unsightly building in Woodville. Mr Murphy's Woodville Club Hotel is now out of the hands, and is the premier Hotel between Wellington aud Napier, both for size and furnishing throughout. No expense has been spared. The billiard room, I have heard from professional players, is one of the handsomest in the colony. I see timber being placed upon several sections, and I hear there. are to be Several new shops built shortly, but what they are to be I have not heard yet. I am afraid they will overdo this place entirely. The timber is being placed on the ground for our oheese factory and the directors are sanguine -of having everything in readiness for commencing operations about first October. ~" •;

, .We:are to have a newspaper started here shortly, A gentleman 1 connected withvthe press was here last week making enquiries &c,, and he seemed satisfied withthe promises of .support, He ho]>ea to have the plant and everything ready by October,