Mangaone Items
J FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]]
As it is a long time since your readers have heard anything from. Mangaone, perhaps it would interest them to know how this vast and glorious district is getting on. There is still standing a large amount of bush, but it will not stand long. Mr John Manson is gettiug 1600 acres felled this year, while most of the other settlers are at work clearing. lam glad to say that up to the present there has been no accidents beyond a few cuts. The grass is growing fine, and the stock is greatly improving. All the farmers have had a good time with their lambing, averaging from 90 to a 110 per cent, increase. What with the rise in the price of sheep, and the improved prospects of the colony, farmers are in a more hopeful mood than they have been for some time paßt.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 34, 13 October 1888, Page 2
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