The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1019, 4 January 1879, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Equal and exact justice to all men, Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. *'* * * + Here shall the Press the^Pisoriiis's right maintain, Unawcd by influence and *anbribed by gain. I SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 187'J. i Tke opening-up of a short and practicable road between liotorua and ' Cambridge is matter of only second , importance to that of a railway to the latter place. Opeu such a road, and the Lake country will be j brought, by way of Cambridge, , within oue day's journey of Aucki laud, and who would encounter the sea voyage to Taurauga, aud subsequent road to travel, whe^i the more expeditious and pleasanter route was opened, which would, in addi- , tion, euable the traveller to visit one district ou his journey to the oilier. L l-suoh a road, it is now proved, is not ! only quite practicable, but eusy of attainment. A telegram, from Tauranga, in our last issue announced that Mr Moss, M.H.R., with a party of native chiefs, had left Rotorua ou Monday morning, and might be expected in Cambridge, on Tuesday evenine, the natives promising to bring Mr Moss through a perfectly level and practicable country, on a line which would bring Rotorua within fifty miles of Cambridge, Tho natives have been as i good as their word, though, from the ; length of time which has elapsed since the track was used, it had become so . diilioult of travelling that the party took until Thursday afternoon, instead of Tuesday, in making, not Cambridge, but Tapapa. Mr Moss passed through Hamiltou yesterday ' morning, aud speaks most sangninely of tho easy character of the rond line. The track they traverse'.! was principally a bush one, and had not been used for years. In places it was all but impossible to trace it, and much time was thus lost, though the distauce between Rotorua and Tapapa was only twenty miles. The > country was quite level, the only - broken ground at all being near Tapapa, Te Kooti's old settlement, where the party emerged. There . Are no engineering difficulties whate\ er on the line, and there is only oue small stream to be bridged; indeed, this stream and a spring [ which they passed afforded the only available water ou the route. The $ land on either side the track appears to be good agricultural land, consisting of mixed bush. , old Maori settlement of Tapeka which the party struck, is some thiriy miles South East of Cambridge and of this distance there [ is a read twenty miles ia length already formed, requiring only two budges, one over the Wailiou aud the other oyer the Oraka streams. The remaining ten raijgs nearest to Tapapa consists of bush, but there ! are no engineering difficulties whatever. A sum of money, some £500 is, we believe, at tj;e present time, available for this work, which ghould i be at once proceeded with.