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Feilding Star, Issue 158, 3 January 1895, Page 2

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[From Oar Own Co|^^^^^^^^^^^H The closing day of t^^^^^^^^^^^^l plied us with the mo^^^^^^^^^^^^^H we have had for a lon^^^^^^^^^^^^H with some thunder, an^^^^^^^^^^^^^H hour and a half, dpr^^^^^^^^^^^^H considerable quantity become very' scarce, aio^^^^^^^^^^^^H for^domestic use had eral. The pastures f^^^^^^^^^^^^^M dried up here as in^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H but still they are £*^^^^^^^^^^^^^| the soaking they got.^^^^^^^^^^^^^H The fires last Satuj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H a good bit over pafts^^^^^^^^^^^^^H and Mx Camplin's farm^^^^^^^^^^^^^H a number of holes in tJ^^^^^^^^^^^^l It was also running a,W^^^^^^^^^^^^ m Waitapu township and {^R^^^^^^Bn Son a smoky time of it. "^J^^^^ The old gravel pit on Mr BenEman's farm contains some waterlillies^which are a very pretty sight, being now in full I bloom. By the bye, I have often wondered why the County Council does not make a better entrance to this' grand supply of water for the travelling public, as there is no other available for, miles during this season of the year. The roads are very rough now, owing / to the new metal being put on in patches, ; and being so dry has not bound at all. . The past year has not been a very prosperous one to the new settlers in .the Sandon and other back blocks, as I hear of several cases wjiere the loss has 6sen great, and the return of lambs small. One settler put on a hundred acres of grass three hundred ew4s. On A mustering for docking he found 3fast 130 M of the number were missing, and jba^*^HP not enough lambs to make up his ori-> ■ ginal number; a,nd to improve natters :