KIHIKIHI.
The contractor for gravelling the streets has drays, horses &c, all in readiness to begin work as soon as the flood in the Puniu subsides. The last rain has made the main-street, which has been recently graded, very muddy, and we will duly appreciate the improvement when it is metalled. The contractor for the eaulhwquks is pushing on the works rapidly.— Application was made some time ago to get Constabulary labour for repairing the road between here and Orakau, but no notjce has been taken of the request. It is £00 b.ad the requirements of the settlers are not attended to; the winfcer [ 9 drawing neap and no work has b,een done as yef, bufc the sefctlfirs along that road have tq pay properly tax, highway rate, a,nd county vafo without getting Fefcumfqr their money. The i>oad wan in a iflost disgraceful state last winter, and unless something is done to it during the fine weather it will be Suite as bad again. This is the result of le road being a colonial road. Were it handed over to the local body, the condi£iqn of affairs would soon be altered. It is Rot by any means Jjkgly fte A.C. will be Bet to work qn ft, a* th.p s.i.rengj.h, pf £be. station is being reduced, Jrou? ine^ have left for Wellington to do duty as civil police, and one man received his discharge when Colonel Lyon was here last week, and as it is rumoured the Force is to be considerably reduced we need not look for any assistance from that quarter. — There is "no naii y,q news of any consequence at present. Ke'wi wan iv G&jnJ}rjd.ge a short time ago. It is whinnered pressure i« beiog brought to bear on him to use his influence in having Mangatautari block heard in Cambridge, and »o prevent the Land Court coming here; but' us Chief Judge Macdonald b&s depidfifi that it shall ait Here, it is not WWWW''h* XfjU^be^pflueneed by interested parties. -=;Qn .\yedhe&fa£, ' % will iieat< objeofcioha; if any, to the valuation of the, property in' th« town djßt^rXh^^u^^upi^eldcin.tibft Town
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1822, 11 March 1884, Page 2
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350KIHIKIHI. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1822, 11 March 1884, Page 2
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