COUNTRY NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3608, 15 September 1874, Page 2

COUNTRY NEWS.

(From the ‘ Bruce. Herald.') The rails on the Clutba line are now laid through the Waibola Gorge, and the engine will soon be running along the Tokomairiro plain. Ballasting is proceeding rapidly, Windsor Paik, Uamaru, the estate of Mr , ’ Menlove, 600 to:is of wheat J«t seaseq. ■ , The wor.s on the Waireka railway are progressing well, r i ■ The Government are about te construct a dray road from Ramsay Town, Maerewhenua dig gings, to the Naseby road, which will so through the Maerewhenua Pass, a distance of twenty miles from entrance to exit, and the whole length of the road will be about thirtynre tm'es. ISo doubt this is but a ooqtinuance of the railway system, which will find its way through the Mount Ida goldfields via Oaiqaru and Waitaki before many yfears. Messrs Fleming aqd Medley, of 'Oatnaru, thrashed six va ieties of whekt last Season, vnt., Tuscan, white, velvet, purple, straw, red straw, and red chaff. They have parted with a lot of 7,000 bushels to a Christchurch u m for 5s per hushel, and hold for the market 34,000 bushels. Their crop averaged forty-eight bushels to the acre, which is 'a fane test of the land which produced it. viz., lucbholm and Knri. • • • *

’1 he Oamaru Breakwater requires 300 yards extension for its' Completion.