Waerenga-a-kuri Notss.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 420, 22 February 1890, Page 2

Waerenga-a-kuri Notss.

[PROM A COnBESPOXDBXT.] This prosperous settlement, now that the wool season is over and the harvesting oompleted, has settled down to its usual quiet state, and one cannot help oontraetlng the present with the state the dletrlo# was ina few years ago, when there was not a house within mi as. Rome ten years ago Mr Richard White emoted the first abode (an iron whare) while getting timber sawn for his dwelling house, the first weather boarded one up. here, and cince then the district has gone ahead steadily and surely, while up to the present time the number of settlers is getting on for a score, and if the rotundity of the etook is any criterion, I would say that they (the settlers) were doing well. , , , t The bullock dray was the only vehicle that would venture up here, but it is now giving way to the drays, traps, buggies, &c., that the settlers possess. Large areas are ploughed lip and some under crop for winter feed ; the click, click, of the mowing machine has beensilenced j same goodly aisled haystacks show that the cattle are to be provided for la wintsr, Fencing is goifig on vigorously on all aides, » Jong stretch of some mllee having been let » few W<>. t The sohool, after having been closed sines aba Christmas vacation, la to bo re.openod shortly, th? oomwittee having fixed their elDiiee on a natiool mis’.reo", who is well ausJlfied to taadi the yoqng ideas. Ths’ post office, xlthnugh an admirable ibMiui.'ion and very wall tWtgsd here, could he fmpsi'ved on bv having a mall hag lefts for us on the ” down ” trip. At present any letters from N»bW via Wairoa (nnoaibly OBPtxlnipg t mUtanoes) pr from Wairoa with ahesp (hiving nosioag; A tB carried on to Gisborne a,id do not react) here till the up trip, which in four days latepj In many instaiOJß tho sheep are driven before the posted notioea reach hew, imi* ppnsequently without the roads having been (feared for them, but we are living in hopes of «opn being oonnected by telephone with the othga *oo<l people of New Zealand, , t The hotel iawell appointed and a good amount of business, the travellers pp this road being plentiful, audit we only had a store and the telephone, m Above, our oup pl happiness would be complete, Within the last twelve months some pro. parties have changed handr, the last one being at a satisfaotory tor*. •stillloing made for land in the neighborhood,