WHATA WHATA. January 15th, 1876.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 571, 18 January 1876, Page 2

WHATA WHATA. January 15th, 1876.

1 AM your correspondent, and what earthly use it is being so I dont know, for after a report is written and posted, there is no guarantee that it reaches your office. As an instance of this, I sent a report of the meeting of the two candidates with the Whata Whata electors, on the 18th December, it was posted on the 20th, but has evidently met with adverse •Winds for it lias never turned up yet It is not unusual for my letters to go to the waste basket after arriving at the office, but this one seems to have met a basket on the road. We have been, like the rest, mourning over the wet weather, not only on accoun^of the hay crops, but the roads have beeii^ so bad, and no attempt has been made to improve them. The quagmire drawn attention to by the Times, some months ago, on the main road, near Whata Whata, has never been touched, and is, if possible, in a worse condition than ever. This has been impassable since last autumn, and not a penny has been spent upon it, while there is ti-tree, suitable for fascines growing on both sides of it. We are told that the lioad Boards are waiting for the Government to take over the mam roads, and they will do nothing in the meantime ; yet the rates are collected as usual. It' there is anything calculated to make one more dibgusted with lioad Boards and Provincial Governments, it is conduct such as this. Any change must be for the b etter. We are between the two stools, and the working settler falls through. »J In Church matteis we are about the same. Two months ago, che Revs Messrs Scott and (Ailder arri\ ed here, and decided that Mr Scott should hold service twice a month, and Mr Calder once a month, since then we have seen or heard from neither of them (we had no collection) fortunately we have a good lay reader, who is always tit his post. — Own Corkespondent. [Your letter alluded t j uerer came to hand or wo ahuuld have buen too thankful for h to have treated it as you say others hare been, and now that the elections are over, we trust our local correspondents in all parts of the Waikato, will iorward us not only suoh information as is generally interesting, but use our columns in tha public interests of their particular districts, & our correspondent above hai done, in drawing attention to wants and requirements of all kinds, and assut us in making the Tlirta that wkioh wo wish it to be the repreaentivo of the distnot aa a whol«.-Ei> Wl]