Chips From the Harbor Board Block

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 15, 4 August 1891, Page 3

Chips From the Harbor Board Block

(from otjr own correspondent.)

This favored spot is still maintaining its good liame, by haviug an abundance of good feed iv spite of the severe frosts. Lambs are quite plentiful, and owing to the spleudid con dition of the stock, a heavy pnreenfcagp may be counted on. Tbe sutlers say their flocks never looked so well before at this time of tbe year. We experience one great drawback here as regards the irregularity of our letters and papers. As there is no postal communication, we have to depend almost entirely on the grocers' and butchers' carts for these luxuries. The consequence is that sometimes we have a startling experience, and on one occasion a friend of your correspoudent received in oue parcel a dozen copies of a daily paper to which he subscribes. He is better now.

This being the proper season, tree planting is going on quite brisk y, and the new plantations of Mr J Pollock and Mr Harrison are especially wo thy of notice, from the extreme good taste exercised in laying out the grounds.

An example well worthy of imitation has beeu given by Mr J. Finnis and Mr L. Browne, who have doublefeuced, and plauted » boundary line between their several properties, with two lines of macrocarpus, which, in a very few years, will answer the double purpose of a secure fence, and a break-wind.

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