PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4737, 4 June 1894, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent) Saturday. i A limn named Greeuawiiy, working near Eketahiuia, met with a nasty I accident yesterday, which inigut have proved fatal, He was shifting a log with a lever, when the log rolled back, and the lever struck him in the face, inllictiiig a severe wound, and dislocating his jaw. Ho was taken to Puhiatua, and attended to by Dr. Gault. During die recent floods in' the Tiraunion, the scaffolding of (he bridge al Ngatucrc was completely washed away, The loss to tho contractors will be considerable, apart from tho delay to the progress of this much needed structure, Travellers from the Makuri report jinectingwith a very rough experience ast week, tho only route negotiable being via the Aupapa road and through Kaitara; huge slips blocking the road iu several places. I understand that the Government arc making arrangements with a local sawmiller to cut up the timber iu the Totarn llcscrvc, Mangahao. The miller expects to have cutting at the rate of 3000 feet per diem for live years, aud also tho right of cartage, to any place the Government may want it. Besides giving cniploynicut to a great number of hands, this arrangement should prove the means of increasing the revenue to a considerable extent. The country will bo cleared, and burnt all round- This block, if left staudiug, ran a great risk of being destroyed by lire.