HARAPEPE WAIKATO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2018, 8 July 1870, Page 4

HARAPEPE WAIKATO.

fFKOit OL'R OWN COKUKsrONDKN L'.] J Illy (J. OUR piarterly utilil in parade came oil' on tin; ■Itli. Thr muster was small ; in fact I think the smallest that has ever bocn hero—not a dozen. all tol l. Souie could not eome cm account of all the creeks being flooded, and not having boats or canoes, aucl are thus prisoners until the waters subside, which L hope will be soon, as for this last week we have been almost inundated. During the past week we have had some very rougli weather—blowing almost a liurrieaue, uccoinpiiniod with heavy rain, thunder and light ning. such weather there has not been in this district for some Tears.

So little interest is taken by the settlers in this district in the new Highway* Act, that tlio trustees did not think it neeejsary to call a meeting of the ratepayers to consider as to whether the propped new Act wad everything that it should be, but they held a meeting themselves, and proposed a lew flight alterations in it, and returned it to the Superintendent. Public certainly at a very low ebb in t!>i- part- of the \\ aikuto. Sinee 'he Waikato Strain .Navigation Companv It'ive had possesion of the bouts on the river, there h i> been au alteration in the timetable. The Waipa comes up to Te Uori anil Alexandra now on Thursday, instead of Monday. The price of freight is lowered from £4 to X' 3 1 «"»s per ton—an alteration lor the better, but a very slight one. This is the only district in the Waikuto that has not an hotel in it. There is not one within six miles.

It seems very extraordinary that the postotlice authorities do not adopt a hotter sort of mail bags than the present useless things. Are the Government too poor to provide waterproof to hold the letters It is not at all unusual for a mail to arrive wet through, and some of the contents in a state of pulp, and, considering the state of the road that the carrier has to trarrl, no one can blame him.