PAHAU.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2852, 20 March 1888, Page 2

PAHAU.

(From Our Own Correspondent;). Facilitated Road Traffic. In my last letter from here I pre. dieted that the excellent summer road that there is from Martinborongh to Upper Eaha'u must prove a great boon, not Ouly to settlers but to carriers, and even pleasure parties, My predictions

tageVo settlers in this formerly isolated locality is now very noticeable, owing to the very substantial improvements they are all making to their homesteads in the shape of fences, buildinat etc., and the number of wagglebrakes, and other conveyances that are to be seen on the road between Martin* borough and Pahau, reminds one of the early days (before tlio#(lvent of railways to the Wnirarap'a), when Hastwell, Walker, and other leading carriers used to make the then quaint little townships quito lively with the trade they stimulated. There have . been several five-horse brakes down to the Pahau river within the last few weeks, notably those of Dowraan and Pain, which, until this year, was con- | sidered impassable for Buch vehicles. But to Mr Chalmers, of the Whareama district, is due the honor of having driven through the first j buggy and pair of horses that /p ever came to Pahau. I understand he drove from Martinboro 1 to Lower Pahau, a distance of over thirty miles, under the five hours, and he content plated making the distance to Glenburn, another ten miles, over a rough • coast, in two hours more, and from thence, 1 believe, he intends returning home by way of Masterton. He will then have driven round the wbolriw the Wairarapa. *

A Swim for Life, I was nearly having to record another calamity in the Pahau River, It appears that a foreigner mistook the ford, and on entering it 011 horseback, the animal was soon out of its depth, and had to swim. It seemed unable to support its rider and the swag it was carrying, so the man rolled off, and swam to the bank, It was very fortunate that he could swim, as otherwise he would have adorned another tale of Paban River casualties, As it was, he told one instead to Mr D. Cameron, Laird of Glendhii, who sympathetically and kindly placed every convenience at his disposal for drying his clothes and otherwise making him- ■ self comfortable. He left the following (; morning en route for Dry River Station.