PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2835, 29 February 1888, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent), New Licenses.

[ The nominations for a new Licensing Committee are in, 12 in number, and the election is announced for Monday, sth March. There is no doubt that Messrs Crewe and Crimp will apply for licenses, and possibly also Mr Hull. All three are at present keeping hoarding houses. Mr Crimp whose place is known as the Temperance Hotel, is building spacious stables, which Mr Job Vile will rent, They will include a ropm available for a saddler's shop, which is badly wanted, as no tradesman of that sort exists nearer than Woodville.

Amateur Exploring, A party of amateurs, not one bush* man or surveyor among them, here on Saturday morning at 4.30 to see if they could get over the ranges to Balmerston, They report it all quite easy; they lost their way once for several hours, but arrived at Palmerston at 5 p.in so little fatigued that three of the party started on again at 8 p.m., to walk back to Woodville, and so got to Pahiatua at 4.30 j-.iQ.on 81111%, having done the round

trip of 41 miles iii exactly 24 toour&.V|||| The"dauntless'three I Messrs Toswell, (lawyerfrpmOhnst- 7 church), F. J. Hamilton (settleri : r also '- \ from Ohristcburch), and A. : Black, (journalist), the latter : of whom has f been referred to in the Waa«#.pa Star - as the recipient of turnipßrom Mr , i Jessop. If the said turnips; have such S} value as to enable a man of ink to ' * scale unexplored ranges, > and then do a big walk with only a few hours'rest, we must make an article of export of"' - them. Seriously this expedition ought to convince the Government that the Palinerston-Pahiatuaroadought to be proceeded with. There cannot.be any difficulties, and as about 5 miles on , each side is more or less settled, there are only 4 miles of bush to negotiate. At present to goto Palrasrston,we have a 27 miles journey, round by Woodville and through theiManawatu Gorge. ■'' ..-fw New Hotels at WooMle. .1 hear that two new hotels are to- S be built at Woodville,close, to 'the Railway Station, and give the ren^fc for what it may be worth. •■;£/ Danaher's Big Culveiw It turns out that the very oircurn- A stantial report about Danaher's big aE culvert fallingin, was spread malici- ™ ously by a : workman' he had sacked.' > There is no.truth in it. •: ;j|t ' A Word of Warim^. Many of your readers : have bush J sections and intend to sow Cocksfoot. $f Let them avoid impure seed. A very small percentage of Fog will, when sown, make such a show that the seed when reaped • will be unsaleable. I have been over many sections sown last year arid they are simply a : mass of Fog. It would be absurd.to try and get seed off them. Also, most of the- Government roads have, 'after felling and burning, been sown down with seed bought as' Cocksfoot. But they, too, are one mass of Fog from end to end. . A great many small settlers do not seem to recognise Fog in Cocksfoot. It is really simple enough for a child. Go and get an ear of Fog {Hokm lamks, soft meadow grass, or Yorkshire Fog) and of Cocksfoot. Eub them out, spread on black paper, examine. Then mix and examine. You will never again deceived. Some of the Cocksfoot contains twenty-five per cent of FogT and yet finds purchasers! (Received to-day .a sample of hantTselectedCocksfoot, not for sale, specially saved for private use. There was in it all one per cent of Fog, besides a little Goose- _ | grass and Hair-grass. The matter is very serious, because in a year or so people will refuse to buy Cock&foot with Fog in it, and consequently all .we produce will be unsaleable, Some farmers say Fog is a good grass, and stock eat it. This is pure ignorance. I believe all authorities agree that Fog has no nutriment in it, Stock eat it, s but might as well let it alone for all the good it does them. .