PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2959, 25 July 1888, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From our own correspondent,) A'total eclipse of the inoon was visible here at 5.80 on the evening of the 28rd inst.

J3eta times are apparent here now, if enquiries lor landed property are signs in the above direation, and 1 believe they are.' Almost daily there are enquiries being made for property. Some large holdings have been recently purchased here in thoMangaone. A Mr Bridge, of Napier, has taken up about a thousand acres, and a Mr Russell, from the same place, a large block, the oxact .area of which lam unable to inform you of. The buslifalling season not yet being very far advanced, no doubt these gentlemen will make a move in this direction.

A Palmcrston newspaper, I am informed, has remarked that tbo members of tlio Paliiatua Itoacl Doord are fit subjects for Mount View, because tliey are in the unique position (unique for a local body in these days) of having £IOOO to its credit, Well, I am half inclined to bo of the same opinion as your Palnwrston contemporary, but for this fact, the Paliiatua Eoad Board is not a rating body to any large extent, their principal source of revenue being derived from deferred payment and leasehold lands. The Boad Board is entirely at the morcy of the Colonial Treasury as to when they shall receive these amounts, and it so happens that in this instance the Board had received a remittance, a very large proportion of which thoy are unable to oxpond, the season of tlio year being against it. Had the money been received earlier, their credit balance would not havo been so large. There is a large sum of money still owing to this body from the same source, about £750 from ordinary lands and £BOO from special settlements. These amounts, with ordinary revenues and moneys in hand, should and will, no doubt, fall and clear a considerable leugth of road during tlw coming summer, and were it not for those funds it would be a poor look out for the sottlors here getting any roads at all.