NOTES BY A TRAVELLER.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1264, 5 August 1880, Page 2

NOTES BY A TRAVELLER.

,' r. ' ,- .—-♦—. — -♦— ■ „ • , Any reference td the moVera&ni now in j progress at Ohaupo I have not seen in "print., so I propose to give your readers the substance' of what I have gleaned regarding it. > r J]h<J' movement is in the direction of forming a new Highway District, to be called the Ohanpo Highway .District. It?" % that the .Board, until a ,few days ago, persistently refused to resign their claim to some mile or so o£,road conducting by the school i noiise T ' ib fhe'holli I .' I» consequencsjthat piece of voad has been for years in a very bad condition. Now, however, when the Bangiaolna Board is willing to hand it o\er, tfrP -Pukerjinu 80-ml will not aocjuie^c,} in the transaction, unless the hotel arid railway road be included in the . bargain. Thus the 6ase stands us between - the rjy#l boards. Tlje proposed .Highway, will extend 'from the noithern of McNichol's fattn io the' southern boundaiy of McQabe's, along the Hanril-ton-Te Awanmtu road; and fiorn Walker's Gulley to Havelock Creek, along the Cambridge -.Alexandra road. Though not extensive^ " this t wiU r , constitute an ' import imt , district, and the other district, chiefly JLuingjaohi.i., will find themselves trre^tly relieved by its tmbstractio'n from them. Iti is admitted on all"' hands that Ohanpo would benefit largely by the formation of such a board. Settlers around complain, with good reason, of the neglect apparent in their roads. Thd srotitlom^n who, have initiated this movement have energy enough and influence to .auke themselves heard. No doubt success will attend their cfltoits, and they are wfH .envied to success. From OhrtnpU upwards, oeivals. seem now to be occupying Jl^e uttention of many^ settlers. .At r the c_ioss- roads, Mr Burke' is "sowing- 'H larger pftdabek in' wheat, and if careful 1 treatment and good soil be sufficient to iecurc a payable crop, surely the.se two conditions are well supplied. I have seen, in the Waikato, <vlieat7'Bovn in t*oil abomidiag 1 iv all manner of weeds, and at threshing time 1 have lieaid the farmer ''complain that the return was wot payable. Better be idle than eug.tyed in slovenly fanning 1 . A thorough demising- of the ground fiom wcedh will well repay fche labor, and will tell with h.ippy i exults in the grazing for many years af^r. - Of Wm, bf couibe, scitlers, as a rule, aro fully awaie ; aud j r et they will uin the ri^-k of miserable returns thiougli caj-«leNri'jess. As the miud, so the giountl, needs Careful cultiViition. A novel way, and 3 et not a bad one, of securing children from tho cold of our winter nights is to put them into sacks, or bags. I have asceitained that some parents do this with their children. Names I ma 4 not ment'on. Some swump. men, too, put them-elvus into bag.s to becure thenibuhoa more eft'cctu.dly fiom the cold, nor aro they shy to confess. It sometimes hippeui, however, th.it apiank is pla) r cd 011 a bay -ed swampei by iiimly tying wiLli a cor I the mouth of the .sat k, thus leaving- him to 1011 and oall until brejkfdbfc hour is past. But ouo hack is not loiJg- enough for a »m«ii man. Granted, if the man be tall and the bag fah'ort , but sometimes the reverse is t'ouud to be the cabo. Two sacks, or, if necessary three, sown together lengthwise a\ ill suffice for the tallest mm. Necessity is the mother of inventions. A stranger seeing a long bag filled with a tall and stout man would teel not a little puzzled as to the contents'. A novel spectacle iudped would be "twenty empty bags full of buhhmen," as a wag and a wit facetiously designated them. A tiucc to bags, aud wits, and pranks '