TINUI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2425, 14 October 1886, Page 2

TINUI.

[FItOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Spring has, fairly . Bet in, and p|ir small township is .much improved'.;thereby. Fruit trees are loaded with bloom, and promise a good crop of fruit this season. There is a fair percentage of lambs amongst the flocks, and .vitli the news of [lie rise in wool sheep .farmer' 3 ought to look pleased. The priliciplo topic at present is shearing and what the- price is to be. lam told that men from tho South Island agiwl to shear tho Aohonga and Akitio flocks for' 15s per 100,jj,nd . arrived oil the station at the time lifwnted, but before they commenced they struclc for 17s (id, the price offored to tho same gang by the manager of Langdale. 1 1 understand the strike was successful, aiid that 17s Gd will-be 'tho ruling price this year. Tho scab has - appeared again at Pakowui, tut in-such a small degree that there is lio. risk 1 of ifc^; spreading to tho"'neighboring flocks, Mr Liverton has by this tiino shorn and dippod t.lio flock infected, aiid thereby put a check to its spreading'through his entire flock. Superintendent. Bayley and Inspectors Orbell aud Drummoiid have paid him a visit, with a view of purchasing tho sheep to destroy them in order that this Island may' be declared free froiii the disease, but if Mr Livertou's shepp wore destroyed thero can bo no ceitainty that scab iB extinct for at least twelve months, as there aro still wild sheep in the Crown lands adjoining which' may w'may not be-infected.. I hear all adjoining [locks aro ordered to".muster for inspection. This is almost impossible , as the lambs are too young yet, 1 regret to say that the Puketoi Special Settlement scheme appears to have/lied a natural death, for I think it woulmwto beon eventually a success. Tlik id^Ksof both the old and young men here are largo, they will not believe that n living en be made on from 50 to 100 acros of bush laud, forgetting that tho area is in limited in order to enable the working man to meet the payments required by tho Act. . Great complaints are' current wit!F% respect to County administration, the Rorokoko bridge and Tinui bridge ware damaged and became impassable, tho one is repaired and the other remains impassable. The engineer proposed to repair it, the County Chairman camo to inspect the ruin 3 aud decided to leave it aud extend the cuttings at the river, and I suppose borrow money to erect a new bridge, These stops if carried out would moan a stoppage of horse wagons and a return to bullock drays to carry our wool and goods, and mean an extra charge for carriage, which the settlors aro not in! a mood to comply with, and bitter things are said of our County Chaiman, viz,, that becausp tho Road Board would not give £BOO to tho Council, the 'Chairman is retaliating by putting obstacles in tho way of keeping the roads in.order, and'certainly thujas some truth in the remarks if what lP»i' is true in respect to the road from Whakataki to Waimata. Tho Aohonga hill road is quito impaßsablo % drays. Shearing has commenced amllhe wool cannot be drayed from the wool shed to the shipping shod, aiid there aro no . surface men employed, and never hnjflfla been except in' the spring. Mi'llandysiit: a short time ago sent a cheque for £249, x the amount of his.county rates, and requested' the. Council'' to authorise him to spend a small amount- to remove a slip near the Akitio Ferry, which could not be crossed witli'n horse, and could not be avoided, and was in reply authorised to spond 30s. Not one of tho Councillors who represent this riding givo tho Coast part any consideration, and should a dissolution of tho Council tako place, they would get no •support from that quarter towards being re-elected. Tho amount of County tatos raised north of Whakataki exceeds LSOO per annum, and tho extent of the County expenditure on roads through the same portion, I am told would not amount to L2QO for tho laßt three years. Clearly thero iB something rotten in the Council, and it is not dealing fairly with this pati of the Castlepoint Biding. W"l' Tho proposal to borrow under the nbw*J Looal Bodies Loan Bill , was received favorably by the majority at the meeting held here last month,- and the schedule sotting forth tho amouut to be borrowed, and wliero the improvements wero to bo made, was signed by a good many, but this schedule, I was informed,, is not in the form of tho one tlmt will bo sub- ' tta' mitted to the ratepayers before the poll is taken.