KIHIKIHI.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1670, 20 March 1883, Page 2

KIHIKIHI.

Now that the fine dry summer has gone and the wet season seems to have fairly set in, and no step 3 having yeb been taken, towards the improvement qf our gtreata, it bodes, ill fqr the conifqit qf our citizens during the. cqming winter, j and those who had experience of it in the past mu,s)t look forward with , anything but satisfaction to what is in store for them during the next aix or seven months. It Is a settled matter, I believe, that the Land Court is to be adjourned }}pre fqr the hearing of the Mangatautari BIqoH, find wiih the increased traffic which that will bring we may look forward to having any amount of mud, as for years past during the winter months our main thoroughfaie has been a regular "slough of despond," and people dare not venture out after dark for fear of falling into some of the numerous quagmires. All this inconvenience is caused by the want of a little gravel, which I am credibly informed can be got in any quantity from the bed qf the Bunju rfyer, within a inile-and-a half qf fc'he. 'tQWP.§l)fp- ' 4- s b'e. enqrinqiis amqmit qf £1Q requires to be spent in. leaking a road to it, of which I am sure, if the case had been properly represented tq them, the Itnngiaqhja Roacl Board would have p.ontrsusec| {east halfj but no, a little enargy and tact would be required, and our " city fathers" not beirig blessed with those valuable commodities let the matter lie in abeyance. But, nevertheless, it is with considerable satisfaction that we view 1 the rapid' strides that our town has made during the last twelve months ; buildings have been erected which would not disgrace any country township in $h& *far|h, Isjiand, "not;af>iy, Corjjoy's ne>^ hotel, Ellis stor>;" whese. you "oan b,ny aijyiliing from " a needle to an anchor," the handsome and cqminocliouSi bntchep's sbqp ej-eptec) for Mr' Henry Mqiicrj.efF. .Tl]at gentleman having had oonsiderablo experience in that line, both in Napier and elsewhere, and being an acknowledged, judge of. fat stock, I- soon expect, to see, his beef, and mutton penetrating -to .the^ .uttermost parts, of ,Waipa, and 'Masib, L but not, least,", come; the handsome pile of buildings in course of erection for v Me£srh ; < A'&d&siJfe' 1 , *nd ■ tNkttrass, better

suite of 'tooins suitable 1 for* offices during the sitting of the Lands Court, and also additions-to the Kihikihi Hotel, which 13 owne3 hy the' first' named gentleman. Ta|iiiig* into consideration -the ruling price okland ; > land, iviz., £5 per foot and upwards for^t business sites, having adv.iu,ced,ooo percent during the last two oi*£hres years.^w^jfnay safely assume that Kihikihi in a few years will be " the town" of the Upper Waikato, the village of TeAwamutu becoming a suburb on the one hand, and Orakau on the other, and by that time Ci Little Jimmy" and " Joe" will have settled which is to become first Mayor of Kihikihi.—(Correspondent.)