UPPER TAUERU NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 444, 15 June 1893, Page 2

UPPER TAUERU NOTES.

(From Our (kii wilWflßKi}- v \ ' ;AtthelastniepltngoftheUppetTauera ' Road Board, the permanont road man I brought under notice, tho damage that >*" might occur to the mad by tho aclion of - * • the river, when in a state of flood, and i suggested that a cutting through a -' 1 peninsular should be undertaken, to ? change tho direction of tho current, and 9 m the threatened dangor was imminent, B and mijjht prove a costly one to repair, '' he hoped the Board would appoint j P someone to examine tho locality and / ' report as to the beat method of deal- ' \ • ing with the difficulty and thus relieve- I ' him of the responsibility of deciding, fj r ThoOhairman moved that "one of tho f members should do 60, whereupon Mr ' - ,i 1 Miller delivered himself oracularly as ' ? 5 follows:-."That if the roadman was in* \5 \ oapable of deoidim> a question of that -ih ° sort, then he* won't do for üb." Now, I $U 1 have always understood that the couser--3 vaiion ot river bank? was a hard enough 1 nut to crack, even for a skilled and '• practical engineor, and most of your readers will concur in this. Tho roadr man, therefore, should havo been com- j v tnendelfor his prudence and forethought j 1 —for he was clearly in the right in ' r objecting to be saddled with a duty M a which properly ought to have been 1 o undertaken by the wardens themselves, d or by a qualified engineer. '■'■,•" i, Mieb Bannister, who has been filling il the position of teacher for some years at e the Didefotd School, will, I hear, not bo '-; allowed to take her departure, without j ~ some expression of the kindly fooling j , entertained towards her bytheparents { i| and other friends. i j A heavy fairpf bhow ooourredjiero, ',; r lasting when Iff'' f) e attaiiiod a "depth of sovenincheßJ whioh [j ut did not disappear from the lower levels T j still Monday, and may yet be seen on \ r tho surrounding hills. \ A narrow escapo was experienced by a * camp of bushfallerß, employed by Mr t ' Hammond, a largo tree falling during j 0 the night, right alongside the tent and - i l- destroying it with tho smaller brandies ; ij] 6 no one wsb hurt, but their sorry plight /f s and scare oan be hotter imagined than f| 0 described. Their troubles did not end IJ ■■ here, for in tho morning they discovered U 8 oneof iheir horsesinadyinßoondition, I i' having bhelcerod itself in the bush and j 6 partaken too freely of tho rangiora loaf, \ T you can inform me what is the j ' remedy in such a oiso ? [