ALFREDTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3244, 1 July 1889, Page 2

ALFREDTON.

(From Our Own Correspondent). We are now having rather severe weather, frosts and rain turn about and sometimes both combined, conse 3fi* 3^tff aJa arß b1o PPV> »f hot Borne little time' ago the County Engineer bad been] Asked by our lload Board to make a report on t-ba Alfredton-Eketahuna and Alfredton-Maogaiuaboe roads, or as they are now culled the rival roadß, and long before the Engineer had an opportunity of seeing the! roads, a paragraph in your columns informed ua that the Eketabuna road not likely to be adopted on account of the cost. lam not going to follow the example of your informants in commenting on the question while still unreported on by the Engineer, but I would nek outsiders as a favor to let the Alfredton Bestlers decide for themselves in the matter of their roads, as they alone will have to pay for them. I am afraid the same influences which defined theWangaehu andTiraumea Valleys for tbe"railway is again hard at work in the matters of our roads.

The members af our Road Board have recently had a rather rough time of it, not ooly are some of thenj insulted on the public roads but they ire followed to their meeting and abused and insulted at the Board's' table. At a recent meeting this ruffianism was carried to an extent, happily uncommon, but if the privilege allowed ratepayers to attend Board meetings is abused in the manner of the late meeting the privilege ought to be withdraw, otherwise it will be a hard matter to get anyone with a spark of spirits to act on our Local Bodies and submit to such treatment.

We in this district are rejoicing at the prospect of having the great Pukeioi country opened up, a large slice of which-will huve its outlets by Alfredton. I understand one of the mam outlets will be through Mr Saundeis' property and connected with the Tiraumeu rutin road at this point. Another black of Crown lunds we aro anxious to see opened up ib the Rangitumau, lying between hero nnd JluHterton, This country would be less costly to open up nnd much more accessible to market than the Puketoi, and would bo an immonno advantage to this district. With theso two blocks nnd the large reserve, ct present lying useless, opened up and settled upon, thoro is no reason why Alfredton should cot become a very important centre, Thi3 has proved a most ut nfuvorable soason for grass seed sowing, a numbur of settlers have hnd to sow their ground two aud three times, ' this is to bo accounted for by tho exceptionally dry woather at tho time of first cowimr nnd aftorwards by < severe frost?. Some people put it ] down to tho enormous increase of : small birds, nnd certainly that is becoming a curious matter, 1 Alfredton, 35 th Juno, 1880. ]