DRY WEATHER ON EAST-COAST

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 8

DRY WEATHER ON EAST-COAST

EFFECTS BEING FELT. ] £

'l \ ~ 'Brown 'summer, -before its. calendarised | /time, bnt with its scorching rays,.is'upon.- '« 'Poverty.: Bay and 'Hawke's Bay. ',J?or jweeks : neither districts' h&ve had raici , end the effect: is. that, this early in the '< season a drought.is atvhand. r .> f Poverty Bay having suffered more than - Hawba's Bay, according to a settler from ' ; ithe. : jf.ore northern quarter, who was speaking to. a - Dominion representative at •ilasti&gs. . ■' • The' Gisborne man says that some of the pasturesj are quite hrowned! already. So far. only effect on stock is to be seen in a very few cases. e From _ all quarters in, the.two East J /Uoitst districts ■ come - stories concerning t , : ;"the price t of cattle." The'.price has' t fallen, _and tna'y . fall -again, .but ,at the ■ €ame time-there are a : good . many' who < ■ onlyj.awaiting- a- good chance' to pur- \ ■ chase. On some .when rain hag 3ooked i probable, prices liavo risen and business has been freer. It-.was stated]to a-Dominion represents- ' . tive -.that, the 'floods., had ' had :a ' effect -in : the.. matter, haying . deposi, » over-the-larid silt of- a' kind !; which doK "* . not assist in the resistance to drought. ■" 1 ' .Hawke's Bay men reckon, that good- i sized losses have already been experi- 1 : fenced by th?:men of the soil there; and < . - 'ihoy say a serious . : situation may arise 5 if rain does not fall shortly. . • i