CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 6 April 1876, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE.

„ lpril,s, 1876. It in to be regretted that li should be fieoeimy to again draw attention to tbe Cambridge bridge $ but the matter is of such import to the dictrict — its prosperity depending in men a treat degree tfpon this work — thab u» exous* ban be expected for once more making known tne wants of khe inhabitants. It it, tome months since the Government promised dittinctly to replace the bridge. The proposed aite has been examined by the Government Engineer; and it was txpeoted that the work would hare been commenced tb.it summer. If it be not done before the wet weather •eta in it will, of course, bo neceasary to postpone its construction until next summer. The present miserable apology for a punt is altogether inadequate to the want* of the district, it being quite useless for the purpose of conveying horned cattle, at will be seen from the fact that a mob of oattle from Pukerimu, intended for the Thames market, had to be taken, ti& Hamilton, to Matamata, thus making the journey some 30 milet longer — a serious addition when fat cattle are in the question. Thus, in faot, Pukerimu it virtually many miles removed 1 from a part of tb6 worid within a stone's throw of it ! I rfm informed, on the most reliable authority, {hat the trade of Cambridge has suffered greatly from the loss of the bridge ; iudeed I can testify myself to its extraordinary dullness of late. KLr does any other place gain what is thus lost by Cambridge, so that the loss, whoever may be the losers, is absolute. It has been s«id that if s thing is nob, worih asking for ft is not worth having, and I think that the settlers should bear this in mind, and not suffer them»elvet to be disappointed in this matter when' a little agitation would most probably git* thwn Whatt they require. The fev#r has not yat abated, and there ara several fre.hcaaes, principally among the immi* grsntt. lam glad to say that those who w»m nr<t attacked art all, or nearly all, in a coo. Taleioent stabe.— [Owk CoKMaroypiiir.l \