WOODVILLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 1 October 1883, Page 2

WOODVILLE.

[PItOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.! ] suppose the first news of the day is the establishment of a newspaper in Woodville (to be'called the " Woodville Examiner') the first issue of which will appear on Wednesday morning next. It will be under the superintendance of Mr V. Harrison who has taken Mr Parminter's store for a printing-office. Of its politics,.ifcc, 1 don't know much,' but suppose we shall know moro about: ft after the first issue. It has been fairly well patronised and will be about the same size as the" Wairarapa Standard." The Bank of New Zealand is nearing completion, and it will be ornamented and painted outside, varnished inside, and altogether will be a well-finished and neat-looking structure. [ hear Mr Macara intends putting up two cottages upon his sections on the Masterton Road, and two others are nearly completed. Our cheese factory is progressing slowly. The timber is all on the ground and all the machinery will arrive from England ahoufc first week in October, lint still the Directors haven't called teuders for the building yet, The Woodville Public Hall is to be

proceederl with at once, so a general meeting of shareholders decided, and all calls are to be paid up the first week in October.

The bridge over the Manawatu is slowly, in fact what Government would call leisurely, progressing. A few piles have been driven, and a little of the embankments are being thrown up, but unless the contractor puts on more steam I am afraid it will be another year or two before you chronicle its completion. I keep hearing the truck system is in full force at the bridge, and the first court held here the foreman figured as a storekeeper. The Woodville Jockey Club hold their annual meeting on Saturday evening at Tahoraiti. This club has now a membership of about sixty, and as they did very well last year, and gave nearly £IOO in prizes, and carried £25 forward to be added to the stakes this year, I hope to report some good prizes being given, and good fields competing.

A cricket club lias also been formed, with thirty names and a piece of . ground secured, so I suppose we shall soon see a oricket match in Woodville. If any one had predicted this five years ago he would have been thought fit for a lunatic asylum. Trade and commerce is yery dull here just now. Very little money in the district and over-speculation in land is the chief cause. I have pointed out this inevitable result of fictitious prices ruling for laud in several of my letters. What this country wants is more land being placed in the market on the deferred payment system. Small holders are the backbone of a country, and the Government ought to encourage the settlement of this vast bush stretching from The Camp (near Masterfcon) to Norsewood (on the' Napier line). The one great want of Woodville is still unapplied, and that is a medical man. We want a young, active mail that can lide through there bush tracts, and there is one of the greatest openings in New Zealand. We have now a Foresters' Court, Oddfellows' lodge, Tent of Kechabites, Good Templars, and a population of nearly 2000 to attend to,', I saw a paragraph goiu,;' the rounds of the Press that a member of the House of Representatives said the inhabitants of, I think; Jackson's Bay were badly in want of a doctor, as the blacksmith mended the broken

■ 'But what would! he sayso the Woodvillo blacksmith. He is, of course, blacksmith and shoer, veterinary surgeon, homoeopathic doctor,.-public vaccinator, dontist, local preacher, and buries people occasionally. Youi' readers may laugh when they see this, -but I can assure them it is a fact. Mr Carr, 0.E,, is now in Woodville doing some surveying for railway purposes, I suppose the Government will soon let the formation contract' between Tahoraiti and Woodville; also define the site of the proposed railway station with junction of Masterton line. • '

Woodville, Soptember 27th, .1883,