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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 167, 21 January 1873, Page 7

A Wellington exchange says the Rang’tikci and Manawatri district is liter;.lly £ land flowing vritli milk and honey. Of the latter there is no ch.nbt, as the 'district has long been famous for the quantity and excellence of the honey it yields. Considerable qnanti i's Imre been yearly exported, and last yea • one person alone sent away no less than two tons of honey. This year, however, thr ! yield is unusually great.’ The bees have I been enabled to commence storing honey! much, earlier this spring, and the quantities 1 nf blossoms and flowers have been more lux- ! nriant than for several seasons hack. 801 plentiful has honey become, and so easily oh j tamable, that its general consumption in lh° ! households of settlers seriously inleneresi with the import of sugar into the district, 1 ;