PIAKO.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 620, 11 May 1876, Page 2

PIAKO.

May 9tL The weather still keeps good, and swamp reclamation and other out-door farm work is making good progress. We have now quite a number of settlers, and I hear it said that possibly before long- we shall have a second public-house and store. Last week Mr Grace passed th rough to the Thames with 43 head cattle from Waikato, for Messrs Banks and Co., of tho Thames. The track is a good one all the way except between Farawai and Puriri. A small sum would make tho road passable; but with the works of public utility suspended, like Mnhomet's coffin, between the Provincial and General Government, and owned by neither, it is more than likely we fehall have to wait for the fall accomplishment of tho much, desired Abolition before anything 13 clone. A few fascines e\ en would make the track passable for the winter, but not a shilling is forthcoming, and so Grahamstown and the Thames may whistle for cheap meai^ and Waikato may lose the benefit of aa additional maiket for fat -cattle — at least to the full extent it might enjoy if the road were made. Others besides Mr Grace, I hear, are, however, gone or going to the Waikato to purchase beef with a Tiew of driving it somehow or another to ilae Thames. — Coiuilspondent.