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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2025, 30 June 1885, Page 3

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Wwi of fuii(K for a long time prevented the cemeteiy tniitees fencing and improving the ccnieti iy, but they found a way out (if tin- difficulty by getting sonic of the residents to give a day to the woik. Last week a number met and fenced of! a poition nf the leionc which was subdivided into, four lots, ono e.icl) for tin 1 , Episcopal, Catholic, I'icsbyteiiaii, and Woslcyan denominations, the poition f<.i each being decided I>> lot. Path- weic made and now each denomination can ornament then allotmont as they think lit. In the event of M.ioiis wi-hmg to buiy any of then dead heie .1 piece was *ot a-ido foi them also. The tmsters have long felt tbu.. tin-, most necessary work should be earned out, but it was a matter of difficulty to get the necessaiy fund-, but one of them conceived the happy id<u of having a bee, and iiiting promptly on the thought ho secured the serv ices of the settlers and now the work is at la.st completed. No lesi than twelve contractors vveie up hereto look at the pait of tho line where the tunnel in to bo made, and all concur in saying it will be a most expensive job, the country h so lough that eveiythiag will havo to be packed. One man estimated the cost of packing at fcl(i a ton. Some. I hear, have put in tenders at a piicu that will piy them, but they do not e\pect they will be accepted. If all the cement and othei mateiials required for the construction can only be put on the ground at a cost of fill} a ton, the tunnel will cost a f.ibulou- piise. It may be treasonable to say so, but T don't see what we required the la'lway for just yet. It will not pay for coal foi years to come, much less working expense*. Ofcoui.se, we were all anxious to see the vuuk begun, for we all expected to have a few drops of what Billy aptly describes as the golden shower of expenditnie fall on v*<, and to mako our hay while the sun »vas shining. But even the storekeeper don't get much chance to make an honest copper out of our navvies, foi there are stoics on the works where the men are supplied by their employers. We will have to pay inteiest on the cost of construction, and the money must be found by some means. It certainly will not be made on the new line. Mv Vvile'a arguments in favour of i educed fares and freight are sound and reasonable, but no leturns can be expected from a line running through an unsettled country, and Mr Ballance does not seem at all inclined to facilitate settlement, except on the " special settlement " plan, which will never answer, If prospecting were allowed, and gold vveie found, the diggers would soon solve the &ettlement question. Talking of railway matters reminds me of a statement made to me by a settler a few days ago. Last week he took some furnituie to the station to have it forwarded t > Auckland ; he took it to the good* .shed, where it was weighed. Tho weight was seven hundred ft>s, and ho had to pay £2 2s lOd freight— a rato of £(> a ton. He assured me of the truth of this. The railway league was started none too soon. Tho town clerk was instiucted by tho board to post up notices warning people against lemoving eaith from the footpaths in hont of their premises, as by doing so the water tables are choked up aud the water cm not get away. With that business-like manner which chaiacteiihcs all local-governing bodies, the council have waited for winter to set in befoie repaning (?) tho road between ho:e and To Avvamntu. Fascines aio being caitwl on to till up a few do/,en of the bad spots, but the improvement* at best will only be temporary. The road at presont gi \es promise of being as bad as it was last winter, and so it will be every year unless it is put in proper oider and gravelled with suitable metal dining tho summer months. As a specimen of bungling and mismanage mentit .stands unu vailed, and it will cost a good deal to put it m piopei older.— (Own Concspondi nt.)

Al.LfcX.Ml AN'ITIMUf FuK Sn'AKKBITE. — A concspoiuiunt of the Albury Banner residing at (Jundowiing writes as follows :— "On the 2.1111 October my dog was bitten on the foot by a brown snake. I sent a distance of a mile for some spirits of turpentine, and duung this tune the dog appealed to be in a dying state. I, however, admiimteied the remedy as soon as it anhed, and the eflject was at onoe noticeable, the dog appearing to rally immediately. I lepeated the dot<e thiec times in four liouis, and ne.\t morning the animal seemed perfectly recovered I may add that this is not the Hist instance in my experience of similar results from like treatment, as i» the year 1651, at Woomargama, a, , dog was bitten by a snake on the ear, and six hours afterwards I found it apparently lifeless. I applied turpentine to the wound, and twelve houra afterwards the dog tallied,"