UPPER WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 6 July 1875, Page 3

UPPER WAIKATO.

To the Editor of the Waixato Times. Sir, — We are pleased to see that you intend to have respamii^e agent!^n> allour settlements. To have daylight tni|ftrn upl|n atfNMifdcings by the press, will dtiMnweMiO' pusV v^M^jn^head than anything else. It will keep irr- check petty tyranny, and excess of all kinds. When* people know that they will be held up to the public gaze by a faithful record of their doings in the press, many will think before they act, who now act without thinking. Reports of what is doing in different districts in all things perUin^ff iikfa^mnff will $ct as a healthy stimulus on a^L/^sfe*ir ell^s^re>ip]bhe pig dealer and steamer will do -good. \ His quite time the light of the press were thrown on the doings of the W. S. N. Co. in the up districts of Waikato. If all the reasonable complaints had found a phce in the press the last two yeais we should have had a change long ago. — Yours. &c, Settler.

The old^jax^Milr^at Mercer, iaving been extensively allbemfc^jiv^eslHfiJ X|v^i^«ii and Co. is now opened as the requisite additional buildings was commenced about three weeks ago, and even now, though not fairly commenced, the mill is turning out 20,000 feet of timber weekly, which, in the coming spring will be increased to 40,000 feet. The Company have on hand a^iftiraj^fcocl^of blocks and other building matlrlais, wßtoh^re 'sold at a considerable reduction on the rates whJcfrt-uieU previously. Alterations on a large scale ar& rapidly proceeding, and the most improved modern machinery is being fitted up. It is being driven by steam power, and the Waikato Company's coal, which is used for the purpose, is highly spoken of. We congratulate Mercer, and the district generally, upon these evidences of improvemenfrvand material progress. Wo hope when tl^miH^s c^mplet^d tmj>e able to publish a full des^np^oruof it.-^ "O^S- v s