Affairs at Ormond.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 480, 15 July 1890, Page 2

Affairs at Ormond.

[from OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.! During the past mouther so, what with continued bad weather, and La Grippe, this little community has been pretty much in the dumps. However with an improvement in the one, and a disappearance of the other, we are returning to a more cheerful mood. Of course the ground has been so wet that little or nothing copld be done in the way of preparing it for the coming crop, indeed this year’s maize crop has not yet been gathered, but a week’s good weather would enable a start to be made In this direction, and so get the ground cleared ror ploughing, &o. A good market is tw sptfn for the miUxo, ana .it id to be

hoped that a spell of good weather will enable the farmers to dry, thresh, and deliver. Feed has been plentiful this winter, no doubt owing to the absence of frost, and as a consequence, stock have wintered, so far, well. More taxation. The proposal to borrow money for a bridge over the Waipaoa, at Kaiteratahi, has been carried, and there is rejoicing on one side, and weepin", wailin", &c., on the other. At no previous contest have such strife and illfeeling exhibited themselves here as has been the case over this one. It was essentially a struggle between the few who will have to pay tho bulk of the tax, and the many whose yearly payment will be a mere trifle. Feeling ran very high, so high, that at one time “ Donnybrook ” was left in the shade; knocked completely into a cocked hat; and I may say that the language sometimes used would not have been the best model for a Sunday school. However, the matter is settled now, hut most of us are of opinion that tho building of the bridge is a Government duty, and should not be saddled on the district. At any rate it is to be hoped thac tho money will be sufficient to put the bridge the whole way across, and not leave half finished like the breakwater. Ha ! Happy thought. Could not the Harbor Board dispose of their superfluous concrete blocks ? Here is an opportunity they may not meet with again. They are now poor ; here is a means of becoming rich. Sell the blocks to the contractor for the bridge. They would, of course, require a little alteration, sharpening at the ends, for instance, so as to offer as little resistance to the current as possible. This would be done before transportation (what a pity the tramway has been lifted) to Kaiteratahi. Thus with concrete supports, and a super structure of iron, we would get a bridge that would last, whilst the Harbor Board would find a release from their troubles. Ballyaltikillioax.