Pohangina Notes
f FEOM.OJJB .OWIf COItRESPOWDEICT,! , A.. The weather has, been very .fine, but I have been unable to make, my usual tour owing to that confounded La Grippe, which has been a rampant visitor here.. F&thily "after family have been prostrated and individuals have in several cases suffered very severely.?* For three weeks at a stretch some were laid up. The school .wa-s "-closed* for a few days? but is^again open. Medical aid was* necessary -some times. ..„ • "I notice *that the young grass _ is not coming: on iso well as might be desired for want of damp weather. . , There are-patches on some "burns " where it is growing a a little, and some-places it is not coming lup at all. Fencing'is being pushed ahead rapidly on the recently felled land, while several parties, are already at work getting ready for falling by scrubbing. The contract for. fencing on the Zig Zagiroad is getting on slowly. Sheep dipping has been going on this week at Mr Hopkins, who "has a , splendid dip -made -of cedent, to which it is a pleasure todrive the sheep. As soon as I shake 'off La Grippe' I purpose taking a long cruise round the block and will give v you an account of my ad venitures^when Kreturn.-*
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 134, 6 May 1890, Page 2
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212Pohangina Notes Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 134, 6 May 1890, Page 2
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