AIFREDTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2303, 27 May 1886, Page 2

AIFREDTON.

(From our own correspondent.)

The late flood is the principle topic in this district. Some people consider it the "heaviest on record," whilo others think the flood of March, six years ago, was heavier. Ono thing we have reason to be thankful for is that the 'damages ar» not very extensive and that our.roads ara not at all so bad as one would expect from the enormous flow of water. Nominations of members for the Road Board took place on Tuesday. The members are Messrs Cross, Frier,. Good, Kobbell, Marsh, and Smith. The Board not being financially in a'position to employ professional skill, it is of the utmost importance that its members should b» practical men of business, and I think we can congratulate ourselves -in having secured the services of reajlagood men, It is to.be regretted that ISaccount of the flood, the Tirauniea pokon of th» district is not represented on tho Board. The nominations for tip gtffredton Riding of the County no* ' constituted a separate riding from Pahia-tua-took place on Saturday, when 0. G. Good was duly elected. With many others 1 think that in • common charity Borne one ought to point out to your contemporary the Star the exact position of Messrs Williama and Becthara's Anniodalo Station, and show him that—on the map, don't on any account bring the editor up to this district—Anniedale is'qijito as near to Maiterton as it is to Eketahuna, with just as much likelihood of there being a road formed to the one place as to the other. On one occasion Eketahuna is detcribad by your contemporary as the terminus for Anniodalo. On another he wrote- of tha Upper Taueru and Alfredton people being opposed to the extension of the railway to Eketahuna, and that the whole thinß ■ was for the benefit of Anniedale. Is all this written from ignorance, or is it something worse? Alfredton is exactly situated half way botween ..Eketahuna and Anniedale, and how Anniedale cqjJL be benefitted without Alfredton being' also, tha Stars only know. I am afraid that the surveyors for the Alfredton Block and reserya : much like Royal Charlie V : ': o' comin.'" It seems strange that a certain poition of the county oan bounce of having five or six surveyors at work, Alfredton and Mangaone cannot get ono, notwithstanding that many good men aro patiently waiting to get the land, and .are quite willing to accept of it on any of the lovely Byßtouiß by which land is disposed of now-a-days, It seeins'equally stranga that the good folks of your township taka so very little interest in tho 'question of opening the land, and that they do not protest against the expending of all tin public money at such a distance from their township. It is a notorious fact that boyond altering tho names of blocks—thereby annoying and confusing people —there has rea'ly been nothing don« towards opening tho land lying' betweon the Camp at one end, and Alfredton and Eketahuna at the other. I ariv told tkat one reason is that tho railway .is first to be constructed, so as to enhance the value of the land. Enhance, the value of tho land, forsooth! It is already over-valued, Rather convert the waste lands into settlements and enhance the wfco of tha railway when constructed. ™ I should think that ono of theafcrongeil arguments thatcouldbe used in support of the County Council's action in reducing their mon's wages is to be found in the fact that dozens of good men are knocking about who are quite willing ds taka up a spade or shovel for pretty JHlulf A tho money given to the Mr (| W. W. McCardlo Mr McCardlo's long and rambling letter is a specimen of what ho knows and understands about tho labor question, he ought to thank his stars that Mr Hawkins did not accept his challenge. ;• I reckon Mr Hawkins would deal with him as he would a telescopo by." drawing'him out, looking through him, arid closing him up again." Alfredton, 24th May, 1886. :

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