THE COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3443, 5 March 1874, Page 3

THE COUNTRY.

• operations are now in full swing throughout, the district. The yield is coMjdetfed .very satisfactory—more especially. southern portion, where the crops are usually heavy. , The present season has clearly proVed that the Strath. Taieri'.Plain is admirably adapted for the growth Of cereals of every! description. -’ Last season the :ad vantages the ■Upper Taieriihgd at its command for the caffymg;qn of woql scouring were pointed out; This! branch of .enterprise, which is new: to the dig.: b ® lr lK extensively prosecuted at the pre- ; JSSaf S™«f . Alarge nmnqter of hands,are busily' '! und ® 1, the superintendence of a Yic-' TOrian cxpert, on the plain scouring, for several •vool - ri&tfer& iix the district.' 1 The flockdwhers have found; out ! at last’ that it is more to ■their ;te;have inferiw descriptions of/wool, such as locks and “ pieces ” scoured in the ffistrictjthan it is.to.send.it to Dunedin for it to xe doue there; not forgetting to : Add the' additional cost for camage of grease and dirt, which must have amounted tq a. considerable sum yearly.—‘Herald.’ - ~ f FAiKpgAITi.-Thedeath of Mr James Paget, after a fingering anebpairiful illness, last week, ajthqugh hotißnexpected, : is deeply regretted. Tfl« ftepeased was a resident in the rdistrict for tvVejve yearn,’during which time he JWasxcnnnepted’with the "Shipping at tho Spit as receiving and forwarding agent, At the memorable flooffiu the year 1868, Mr Paget was a heavy loser, the industry of years being swept away.—ln tbe removal by death of Dr Crocpmbe from amongst us, we have lost one oLthe oldest residents, in. the district.. The -deceased was one of the first pioneers of the Province having landed at .Waikouaiti over thirty-four years agp, when all qf ,tfie, settlement that existcd'was a whaling station. Little is known of the deceased’s antecedents, or his adventures previous to his arrival at Waikouaiti; hut it is stated that, be came out from England as surgeon of an emigrant ship, bound probably for Auckland (the name we have been unable to Ascertain), ’ and that the vessel was wrecked off the New Zealand coast. The deceased was afterwards engaged by. the late Mr John Jones toiattend- to. the medical requirements of the small band of settleis engaged in whaling and other the day of ms death , the deceased appears tp have'permanently settled in the district, and in common with other early set tiers he experienced many vicissitudes and changes. The deceased was for many years. the only surgeon in the district, and at one time enjoyed a by no means small practice.—Riirf.