ALFRE DTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2658, 27 July 1887, Page 2

ALFRE DTON.

(From our own Gorrespondont) tor six weeks, tiw weather in this district might lie 'called funny weather, lor we Lsve bad a mixture of snow, Irobt, and heavy flouds. Ihe tortbeominjr election seems to lwe hut little interest for • astllers. \vby Alfredton and Eketahuna should no' tackerl on to Wooijvillo can only be accounted for by some " party" move au there is no conceivable con-nection-of- interest between us, General regret is expressed at our losing Mr Beetham, still I feel sure,that ht\ as the representative of Masterton, will still continue to be our real represen'ative, whila somebody, or rather some nobody will be elected our nominominal representative. The committee of the Alfred touMan'gaono Library have made good headway. J am glaci to heat that there iii'o already over thirty subscribers, representing upwards of £l6. The most important point now is the selection of books—a great responsibility. Are we to have light siliy

novels and heavy reading of an unsettling nature, like Darwin and Henry George, or will the'committee hit on tliii happy medium—interesting and wholesome. The Alfrodton Hoad Board are taking advantage of the .section of the i'ioad Boards Act which does away with the usual nomination and polling days for the forthcoming Board dec"

tions, and if this method saves time and "money it is a step' in the right direction, Some people might suppose, from tho occasional correspondent of Via Media, &c., that if we could only lay i our hands on the members and J engineer of the Count)' Council it would go very bard with them indeeed. This is only one side of the question, but Ido not think it expresses the opinion of even a respectable minority ot.the settlers, The County Engineer is a gentleman of whom anv public body might be proud, and the Councillors were perfectly right in defending him«ga.i.(»s6.-our' representative's out-' side attack. If is the duty as "well as the privilege of a Councillor, if he has

a complaint to taako of a servant of the Council's to bring llieui before his colleagues, but possibly tbnro are sometimes complaints which would not stand this scrutiny, We have one or two settlers \vho year after year leave the carrying of their stores, etc., until midwinter, and then cut up our roads in a frightful manner. This is a downright shame, and the pity is that it cannot be stopped. Our councillors might at least take note of the numbor ol bullocks and, width of tires used.