EKETAHUNA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4844, 6 October 1894, Page 2

EKETAHUNA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) - ( . Judging from appearances, it is very f doubtful whether the railway bridge • across llio Makakalii, near Ekctahuna, will bo completed by the end of the ( year, Although the contract for the \ ironwork, cte, lias been let some time. ' I am informed that up to the present, i not even the scaffolding is erected. I I bear, on pretty reliable authority, i that the amount of money already ex- J prided on the railway line between j between Ekctahuna and Woodville by co-operative labour, would have been ! more than sufficient to have completed ' tho whole work by contract, in addi- ' tion to which tho b'ues would have i now been open for traffic. i A severe frost was experienced in our ] district this morning. As a result the , early crop of potatoes have suffered ( considerably, The weather during the past few weeks has been exceptionally severe, • aud settlors especially those who have sheep grazing on unprotected properly have lost hundreds. Ono instance was brought under my notice where" a settler lost fifty per cent out of his flock of live hundred. Your suggestion re a Wairarnpa Express bus been favourably commented upon here and I believe it is tho intention of our local ltoacl Board to give the movement every assistance. We had a visit from your new enterprising (inn of Auctioneers yesterday. I refer to Messrs Hornblow and Co. The genial" Bob" wielded the hammer and being well-known throughout the district drew a large crowd. Judging from the" biz" he did lie ha s evident)' caught on here and his periodical sales will be looked forward to. He has my best wishes, , Thoro is still a large number of unemployed waiting about Ekctahuna in the hope of picking una stray job. Asa consequence bushfalliug has been let as low as eighteen shillings and sixpence an acre. No wonder somo of the un; fortuniitcsliavo to go in search of n cheap meal, in fact it is a matter of notoriety, that very often tame cattle are mistaken for wild ones, In fact one individual who.was caught red-handed by the owner, standing near the carcase-of a dead beast, when called upon to explain matters, pleaded his ignorance by stating " that to make sure the beast was a wild one he had walked round it several limes to make sure there was no brand or car mark!" Needless to say this was hardly good enough for the" boss" farmer, who gave the adventurer the chance of either paying full vnluo for the beast, or gang to "jug." The former alternative was chosen. Cases ot this kind aro of 'frequent occurrence up our way, =