PAHUTUA

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2496, 10 January 1887, Page 2

PAHUTUA

[From ouit owx Oouekspoxdeni,]

Thin being my first letter I would like to ..mention one or two prahmiuary : matters. No doubt many people will aee this who have friends in Pahiatua. To tbem I would Say that I do' not propose to write about births, school fetesV'buggy .upsets and so on, as' we have'a local pa|»r where they are recorded. Nor would I attempt any big-thing, such as a murder. My letter wiil refer to things which the local .paper doe 3 not touch on, such as the gradual growth of settlement, the changes in the public opinion, the condition of our township in tho way of roads, new buildings, &o. These matters are reported peicc-meal in our journal. You want a sort of monthly summary. Of course, if any matter of real interest arises I will note it, whether, the local paper does so or nob. As ai beginning I should like to tell you where Pabiatua is. Qf courseyou know theoretically that ifc ; - is up north. It can be described better. You at Masterton lie in the Kiiamabahga valley, and drain south. We lie in. the Mjanawatu valley and drain north. From Mas terton you go north • by ' train to Maunceville, then take coach and go onto the Saddle/. At this point in the boundary line between the great valleys two notable streams rise—the Makakahi aud Mangatainoko, From the Saddle you go on to Eketahuna; in two years the railway will have its terminus here. From Eketahuna you go along a road between the Makakahi and Mangatainoko. The rivers run neatly parallel, and naturally the road is quite level, and crosses no creeks. A little before you come to Pahiatua, the Makakahi crosses the road and falls into the Mangatainoko,- You observe th.it as the hard part about the Wai-rar.-ipa railway is the gutting over the .Saddle, there can be,.l.ittl(; ,doiibt. : thai when it. reaches Etatahiina it wjll go nn to Piiliialua, Arrived, at-.Pnhialun, I must take you to tytklv'ille. The fare., is one shilling, and' as jour couches g.i every day yon have a lliiircß. The distance is 9J- miles, In-going,: you cross the Maiuwatu l>v a lirtdge! whidlt will eventually carry the raihvay, The approaches are made on each side, but not now used. v '' '■'■

"Vou wil) naturally ask: Is'tttflro nothing in ou'r district but rWth ,ah'd South ? What lies East and West ot the road'? This is a cjiiPßtion difficult to answer, as the knowledge is oontined to few. No reliable'maps exist, nnd travelling is difficult. I was hemmed in by fa'ro the other day, trying a very simple little trip. I will attempt a general description in my next.

On Tuesday and Wednesday last, the Maories who live at the Mahawatu Bridge came down to the MangatainBridge, three miles north of Pahiatua, and found a deep back water. They swam up this with a seine made of.scrim,. arid.netted about one and a half hundredweight of fine troufc, degcribed as a foot long, grey id thesido Ths whites are very indignant, but as the VVoodville police will not stir out of their own district, and thereisi no telegraph to Eketahuna, we could take no action. By. now, the fish, are all eaten, and. it would be hard to prove what they really were,