PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1426, 10 July 1883, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Mr McGardle met the settlers on Tuesday 3rdinst, The meeting was well attended—meetings in Pahiatua always are—greatly to the credit of the settlers who are alive to the fact that •'combination" is power, and "pulling together" our best mode of working. Mr McGardle brought all the latest news in the matter of our new road district, and went back loaded with fresh instructions and duties piled upon him. Poor public workers! The more you do the more we growl at you 'and abuse you and the more duties we,'find: for you. One of the local agitators complained that the correspondence that Mr Chamier had received in connection with the Cemetery and Public Reserve had not been.forwarded to the settlers. No confidence was evinced even if not spoken.

There was no need for anything of the sort,. for the correspondence in question was as yet entirely unimportant to the settlers, the only definite reply to any of the enquiries being that the Reserve would not be granted until the line of railway has been laid out. This letter was shewn to the settlers (and it was the only one of all those received that gave any definite reply) at a meeting supposed to have been convened for the purpose of examining the vast accumulation of documents of which Mr Chamier was supposed to bo the happy recipient, and at which two or three astonished people were present, astonished because nobody knew that there was to be a meeting at all, the agitator having overlooked the trifling necessity of calling it. That is how the matter stands, and that was the cause of the quasi-no-confidonce motion that this wounded patriot attempted to bring forward, when, as a matter of fact, the settlers know all that has been done, and seen all that is worth seeing, and tho other duties entrusted to Mr Chamier have been conscientiously performed, When Pahiatua is the seat of Government, lor I what a leader that agitator will made! But until that time (and it will probably not be just yet), I really believe that things can go on as they have been going in the past, and in the future, as in the past, whenever there is anything tho settlers should know, they will bu sure to hear of it and all about it.