TAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3073, 6 December 1888, Page 3

TAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) " The election of County Councillors is now over resulting in the return.oi Messrs Birnie, Whitcombe, Averyi Pinfold, Gardin'or, Miller, and Vile, Jlie.fifst meeting was held on Wed- ' nesday last JBtli November,, when Mr J. Vile was elected Chairman. A few routine matters was gone through amongst other thiugs, Mr, Stdeole (who by the bye was appointed Clerk temporarily) was instructed to communicato with the Wairarapa NorthOonnly Council re adjustment of accounts, which "must bo arranged within two niouths. of tho election of the new' Council. The work of the Council will be small for a time, its raU| power for general purposes feH&o first rate is made, will, be One of its first the keeptoll ■ gatel nmlv when here, it wJH^^^HI

in prison; for said lib, t"vVflH barred, 'to get here and barreTtogeta way. The cost for tolls 6u horse awl 'trap, from' Pabiatua to Palmerston, a distance of 27 miles, amounts to six shillings, very soon I am of opinion, we shall see a shorter road to Palmerston from here:/ A meeting of the Road Board was held on Saturday evening last, when the Board instructed their engineer to call for ■ tenders for road work (principally bushfalling and clearing) in the Masterton-Mangahao, Woodvillcfcingnli'ito, and MastortonHawera Special Settlements in nil about «ne thousand pound, au'd and fflpablo for expenditure in these blocks. The first section for formation on the Central Mangatainoka lioad, for which a loan of £1,500 has been arranged for, is also to be gone on with, and the working man will not Lave much to complain of here in the way of labor for the next few months, The weather just now' is very much against out-door work— not two fine days coming togethor for an age, One of the oldest settlers here, I understand, when asked how many days in the year rain fell at Pahiaiuit answered three hundred and sixtylive—not bad that. It is a pity a few of our wet days could not be transplanted to South Australia, where they appear to be so much in need of ram, Mr Stewart's Public Hall is now complete, and Ido not think there is a more architectural building outBide or Napier. I understand it is to be openod with a ball on the 7th in.it. Mr. Crewe has shifted into his new "Mere is abundance of grass still in this district, and wo want a Dairy Factory yery'badly. Private enterprise would be tho, best, I hear that Mr Hartstone, the enterprising proprietor of the Wood, ville Cheese Factory, has been offered—but refused-Bid per lb for all'this seasons' cheeso "for a Sydney and Melbourne firm,, Mr Hartstone has now about one thousand cheeses iu slock. He privately informed me that he would prefer that his plant was in Fahiatua, audit ho can get any of the farmers here to support him 1 believe he will start a Cheese Factory in our midst noxt year. But your correspondent believes that a butter factory would pay over so much better—the wet, cool cliumto being just the very thing for butter-making of first-classfmality, and tho supply couljjjjjo oiwnho'us.