MAKURI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3981, 5 December 1891, Page 3

MAKURI NOTES.

(From Oar Own Correspondent.) -InEue&za has-been through the and moßt people talk ot little else. The popular cure if ..schnapps and soda; Two bottles of schnaDps will exorcise the fiend. The scientific treatment appears to be antipyrin, whatever that mayfcbe, followed by cough mixtures and quinine. One camp, at. least has been prostrated by it. The annoying part of the complaint, is that after the illness, whioh . generally lasts from two to six days, a good deal of weakneesiß left, and men V; say they cannot eat or work. We had a great excitement about the - 24th November. A constable ' came to look for a man accused of larceny, one Harris, and found him working as cook in a camp- He managed to bring him out, but it was -a ticklish matter as a night had to be passed in the township and there is no lockup, Messrs Nasmytb and Muir have abandoned their store in the township. Nasmyth was partners with Hughes • in a large section on the Aohanga . road, and a few weeks ago bought him out and consequently has enough to do on the section without a store. The store formerly carried on in connection with the hotel has also been closed. - Mr Sinclair's store is now our sole reliance, and he. does not keep much Btock ab the camps will soon break up and unless the settlers got good burns there will be little demand for anything until next winter. Ihear that Captain Anderson has

let a contract for felling to Hart and Co., the land is up the Maknri-ifci river, a tributary of the Makuri. It -seems to me pretty risky to fell so late, the bush will probably catch fire when only half dry. - Mr Boydenj road overseer, has ~' commenced work on the Makuri Valley road with a gang of " unem- " ployed."" will do about 30 Chains of formation about half way "between the cradle and tjie Gorge, , t[nd then prevent a dray coming up to the Gorge except the

ticfc that three small bridges are unwished, these will bp done "in a month a wepk or so the CpwS|Blnn.let tenders to metal the ,/, yoad tile Whole w&y from the cradle to the Gorge. Soon (perhaps in a fortnight) the Government will start forming the road through the Gorge, It seems therefore probable that before winter, drays will be able to come into the to^bship. The moat noticeable flower now in i the township ia the yellow cineraria. It is very handsome ia the wild state, and if cultivated miaht yield valuable crosses with the well-known greenhouse cinerarias. The ground, in moist places, is starred with a white lobelia, and one notices ihe white bell-shaped flower of the hioau : but the flower* £f though interesting-, are very difficile to piocure, as they-aria often high out of reach. Hence few people ftiowthem, <£, Every time I Tifit Pahiataa I notice ? great improvemeiftg. A blogk pf b'ricli jhopg is nearly completed, antl p'lajge temperance hotel is shortly • going up at the corner of the Mangabao road. There is hardly a shop or house of any sort unlet.