NEWS FROM DANEVIRKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2

NEWS FROM DANEVIRKE.

" Examiner" Correspondent.) You are ahead of us in getting a newspaper, and so, I suppose, we must play second fiddle to Woodville for a time — at least until we have a paper in Danevirke. If building continues at the same rapid rate at which it is at present going on, we shall double the size of; the settlement easily by this time next year. Not many months back we bad no hotel and no sawmills, now we have both. I heard something about another mill starting here, but cannot vouch for the accuracy of the statement, Messrs Henderson Bros. and Wratt's sawmill should be sufficient for us I should think. Most extensive preparations have been carried put by this firm, who are just completing preliminary arrangements in order to throw the mill into thorough working order. The plant consists of a 16 horse power engine, 2 circular, and a vertical saw, and ether machinery. They anticipate being able to turn out an easy average of 5,000 feet per day, with power to double that amount in case of emergency. They have now laid down ninety chains of tramway line, some of it running through cuttings as deep as eighteen feet, and ultimately crossin the Mangatanah riyer over a bridge of 40ft. After such preparations they should have every facility afforded them. The manager of the railways, according to the Hawke's Bay Herald, informed a deputation in Napier a few days ago, that the Tahoraite section of the railway line would be open in two or three months time. It is simply absurd for a man to say anything of the sort. The line cannot be opened to this point one day before six months. Most people say twelve months; but I am giving the very shortest estimate when I say six. Why then are we told two or three ? However, we have now a newspaper, for the Examiner includes us in its district, and I trust that things of this description will be strongly handied by it, and when such absurd statements are made, they should be duly corrected and criticised.