EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3457, 12 March 1890, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our Own Correspondent,)

The storekeepers are crying out V ' about dull times and no money, v People like to hiivo goods and keep 5 them on some months without pay- S ment, which is a tad thing on the 1 part of the community. -"% ■ I Great improvements are going oil 8 in the way of liouso building. Timber a and labor are 'cheap,''and somo are. taking advantage of it. i Tlio flftxmill is flourishing, aud is. turning out .if great quantity of dressed material, I think it time that the councillor for the Alfredton • and Eketahuna district was brought up with a round turn for the way lie is having the County monoy spent, For instance, be f is- filling up little ruts on the metalled road . froni liis;'oWn dobr, to Eketahuna, a distance of about one and a half miles, and is leaving other parts of tho road undone, There is ; " a place called the Platform Bridge' W" he has had nothing done to whatever,' 1 * - and it . be, utterly imppsable in the 'winter' mpiiths,; •Another' place is the bluo clay, slip. -If !tbey were to metal those places; the road would be good in winter, but as it is it will he no more nor less than a bog hole.-;-; : .v. a ' Ware havinga'splehdld'sjpelhf. dry weather, aud the settlers have* had good burns. Some are thinking : of starting grass seed sowing at once, as they Relieve tlio birds will not bo so numerous.

There was held on Friday, 7th instant, a concert. anc| dance in aid of . the 'public town ball, which wa' J grand success. There were about one hundred and fifty present, The 4 ladies and gentlemen who took part • deserve tho greatest praise for the way they went through their parts. Tho einging was Yory good also tho music, The singers were laboring under great disadvantage, however, nstlioy were all suffering from sort) throats and colds.. Miss Bessie George was the mainstay of : the' afiairj ua she not only played the accompaniments, but played all the danco music, and was kept at it from half past eleven till half pajst four in the morning. She was at tlie piano 'frjfcnine solid hours, and I think she deserves great praise for doing so, I hear that Mr Woolfrr contract will be finished in a day, or twojfed by all accounts will be dono satisfactory. Mr Britt has pushed . his work on very well, and it will not be long before ho is finished. Tliere; is another contracUut for ninety chains more 1 ol 'road niaking, a .continuation of Mr Britt'a contract,