ALFREDTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2205, 28 January 1886, Page 2

ALFREDTON.

[Fhoji our own Correspondent.]

Dky weather ia still tlio ordor of the day as well as I do not think that the | district lias suffered as yet from the drought, but that it is exceptionally dry, may bo gathered from the fact that a creek, which is spanned by a sixty-foot bridgo, is dry in many places. Mrßeetham paid the district a visit last week, but, unfortunately, only a few of the settlors <tno\v anything about it until after tho meeting had taken place, so that many were very m uch disappointed, let ino say not because they had not the opportunity of hickling the member, bu.t rather because they had not''tlio oppor ; - tunity of paying their'respects to/one who so'worthily represents them. ' We had; jnother grand turn out on Anniversary Day, the occasion being a cricket match between fcl)o Alfredton' a,nd Eketahuua Clubs. That oiir young plub was victorious, no dqubt added consider? ably to tho enjoyment of the Alfredton spectators,

It those who maintain that tho settlers of Alfredton have been asleep for the last twenty years were in the. neighborhood of Mr Cross' property on Boxing and Christmas Days they must have confessed that thesettlers are at leist beginning to rub their eyes. Such gatherings are a healthful sign of the district, and ought to he continued, as it does good to tho backcountry men sometimes to know that there are other people living in the same part of the world as themselves. That the district is making rapid progress now may be cortcluded from the fact that wo have the most slender and genteel buggies travelling In ease and comfort over roads which four years ago could not be distinguised from sheep traoks. Still, tho settlers ought not to rest satisfied until they have' their natural outlet to DreyerV Rock opened up, which would shorten tho journey to Mastorton by something like twelve miles.

_ It is said that "misfortuno never comes singly," and this has come very true in the case of Mr E. Smith, Tawataai. Only some three weeks ago Mr Smith lost hia'\yife-Jier death being very sudden'/ Last week Mr • Smith 1 left his 'hlnhe, 'with' his ytiuhg and lieinless'family, to 'visit- if friend in ''AlfredtoV''amj returned home'tin Suntjay'to''find his hoijie-I might say his all—bumf to the ground. lfi)M%a little how''tho fire originated; whether'' by "a spark fromllje Hawera road five; or pth^rwiao', 1 the'ease is a bad one.' Tho' house was worth about £2OO, and uninsured! "' "