RAGLAN. April 4.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 6 April 1876, Page 3

RAGLAN. April 4.

'■ElGtlK ABTD WIWI BOAD. tTfot following- petition is being pat in ojrculitioa iift«g}%a »ad the Wftipa'dukriot, and it u intended to .have it iigned from Ngaruair&hia inwards throughout ths K*gl»n Ind Aotaa dutriota. thq, heading of the petition h»i not yet ik»n plaood to it, u it is not kown yfct to whom $! *hould be predated, >heth'9r to theDeftnoe Minuter or io the Aisenbly. The prayer of it howofer, commond* itiilf to «fery lettler here, and to every resident ia|'W»ik»tjp from Alexandfo 'to Nga'ruaValii*., It has receired 110 «iau*turoi About Wh*ta Wbata :—

vintios. " We, th« und«r*igued, aettler* of Waipa, Eaglaa, and Aotea, beg re»pectfully to lay before you tha want of a good road to oouneot the above di»triot, although only separated from' the above dutrict by a *hort range of hills, og which large sum* of money havo (rom time totime^bewi •peat in *urvey*, &c, &c. Ho further notios ia taken notwithstanding your petitioner* have r.epeattdly applied, ' through their represent/tore and other*, to have. the mid road made, the authorities generally giving aa »n exouio the native difficulty that 'your petitioner* know nothing about. 44 Settlers in the Waikafco who would like to> •Tail theuuelvei of the sea air are debarred from doing to,, the overland mail traok beio^ attended with difficulty and danger.. " fhe J2'irop»an and Maori ,population of Saglan »(Jd too *mall Sum to tho revenue by the dutiable good* they consume, as well as have to bear their ahara ot the interest acoruing from the borrowed' money on public work*, Ac, and until the road in qu«tion u nude they are not likely to receive auy equivalent ai they are oompletely uolated ?rpm the rest of the province ; and the railway, when open through the Waikato, will be of no avail to them. " And above all, the want of thi* road almost oompletely keips population from le'tling in thi* part of the province, ulttiough its nutural re•ource* may be clawed amongst the best m the province. "Your petitioner*, therefore, pray that you will take their oaio into your favorable consider*fcioa and get tho road made without delay. And your petitioner*, a* iv duty bound, will ever pray." All we wjrat i* thi» road to bring us futo a fair aharo of notice, and cause this part to progress a* fa*t a* auy other portion of Waikato. The Raglan and Aotea districts, (w your columns often tell, present every facility und requirement for proaperoua *©ttlemeut. All wa want it, inland communication with the rest of the province v I under»tand we are ' to have a regular quarterly visit from a Church of England clergjmm, and the Bey W CahW makes hi* briit putoral -riait on Sunday the 16th iast. Th» working of the Houiest«*d Aot in having • *pnsible effect upon tb« Aote* portion of the diitrict, m good class of men taking up the land. The re«ult of th« iiDp«tu» to oittleraent is ' already beginning to be felt in tho town of Raglan, a* thare u now aomt: traflio goiog on with the new ijottlement*. The bush land*, are already wonderfully improved, and fern and for«*t land ia being brought under cultivation — the plough i* bu*y, and there will be a larger eitentof land laid down la "grais thi* year than for many previous ones. — [tfitost a CoRBasroHDBNT.]