Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 216, 17 January 1894, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

. « [from ode own coebespondent] A picnic is to be held at Ashurst on January 22nd, for the children attending the State school. Many of your residents will take advantage of the gathering to visit their frjends there. Travellers say that Pohangiua is begiuning to look quite like a town. Many a cup of tea is given to weary horsemen from the river-bed — which is like Jordan, a hard road to travel, since the last fresh. Mr A. Reeve, of Ashurst, is well acquainted with the yearly achievements of some of the Hawke's Bay shearing sheds. One shed in which the work is usually done iv seventeen days, this year, in consequence of the continued wet weather, spread its dreary length over nine weeks. Mr Clare, who purchased the Ashurst bakery and business of Mr Cleo. Any on, a name not unknown in Birmingham, has again disposed of it — this time in sections ; one party confining his attention to the confectionery and baking, another taking over the store business that had grown up with it. Mr Clare has purchased a farm on the Bunnythorpe road, and is about to build a dwelling liou.se. He lias also bought a herd of twenty two milking cows from Mr HayiiM, our Engineer, and will scud milk to the Ashurst creamery. Already there is a lot of smoke about, early days for burning bush. Mr Lucas, of the Wanganui Harbor Board Block, is one of the early birds. Messrs Stevens and Wood are this week removing their sawmill plant from the Feildiug road to their uew site near Awahuri. It will be found that they can get through a lot of timber, taking the average of working days. I hear that several of their old hands are going with them. Some of our farmers are shearing their lambs. Nine out of ten shear now-a--days. If their lambs die during hard winters they do not lose quite so much, if they have pocketed the fleece.