Birmingham Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 93, 13 October 1894, Page 2

Birmingham Notes.

i _ j I FROM OUB OWN COBBEBPONDENT.] I Mr D. M. Banks, of Kiwitea, has purchased Mr Knyvett's property in the l Feilding Block. Mr Banks took a flock j of sheep, with lambs at foot, on to the £ place the other day. r The Mutual Improvement Society had a musical union in the Wesleyan Church on Wednesday evening. Songs were r rendered by Misses Laing, M. Lowes, • A. Richardson, and E. Hicks. Mrs Kit--1 chen presided at the organ, and also 1 sang "Darby and Joan." Messrs F. 3 and W. Barlow (flute and clarionet) played "Maid of Athens." The latter , gentleman also gave " The Old Rustic ) Bridge "as a song. The president, Mr * Mcfntyre, presided. There is a decided improvemont in i the weather — such a change that one is almost inclined to forgive Jupiter PluL vius for his injustice to us for so many I months, for it has been rain and mud, mud and rain. You who dwell in towns I with good roads havo no idea of what it . is like. Here is a fact which will con- [ vey to your mind that Macadam is un- ; known in some places. Wairaki, fifteen miles from Pemberton, has fourteen dead horses at different places along the— 1 (I was going to write road)— track. One of the poor brutes is sunk so deep that your horse walks on his back, which is level with the surface. How did these poor beasts die '? Exhaustion, poor feed, and severe weather, no doubt, did their work. A lecture was given by the Roy. Mr Richavds in the Apiti Church last evening. The attendance was good. One poor settler had all Roinney sheep on his place, and has lost over fifty. I mentioned it) my last notes that some were inclined to go in for tins breed of sheep as being more hardy. Since then this fact has come to my knowledge. They lost flesh, swelled in the jaws, and, although well attended to, still they died. Would it not be possible to rear a breed suitable for the severe winters ?