THE HINDS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1711, 14 August 1879, Page 2

THE HINDS.

Year by year, in spite of bad harvests and adverse times generally, the plains are supporting a larger and larger population, and this is now specially noticeable in the neighbourhood of the Hinds. A day or two ago a meeting at Sir Cracroft Wilson’s grain, shed, for the establishment of a Government school, was reported, and now another is spoken of as urgently needed in the immediate vicinity of the Hinds railway station, where it is said nearly thirty children are of an ago to need education. A pound is being erected, end the fact of its being required shows the increase in the number of stock. The crops are being put in at a great rate just now, and a very much larger area will be sown this year than in any previous one. Much of the laud is light, but some is of splendid quality, and in a favorable year there is little doubt that a majority of it will yield well. A new hotel, called the Hindhope, situated within a minute or two’s walk of the railway station, has been recently erected. It is a fine roomy building, with some twenty bedrooms and capital general accommodation, and will no doubt be a great convenience, as it is kept beautifully clean, and there is splendid accommodation for horses as well as men. The landlord is Mr Little, late of the Ellesmere Arms, Tai Tapu. With reference to Mr Little’s stable, the two Traducers, Young Camden, dam Jeu ©’Esprit, and Young Traducer, out of Kasper’s dam, have both wintered well, and look real good horses. _ They have just been taken up, and are being got ready for the spring shows. Young Traducer looks more and more like his sire as ha grows older, and Camden’s grand qualities have already won the admiration of the neighboring sportsmen. There were some good nags in the stables, among which a grey mare by Traducer was specially noticeable, and would bo hard to beat up country. On the tussocks Mr Little has a steeplechase horse, a big Golden Grape of excellent quality out of a big mare of Mr Wheeler’s. He is rising six, has run four times on the West Coast and at the Peninsula, and has placed three wins to his credit. Mr Little has changed his name from Sour Grapes to AH Fours. There is also a Blood Royal mare, seven years old, out of Towton, who has run seven times at country meetings, and won five races. Mr Little expeels a Barbarian colt from Tai Tapu, and he and the Blood Royal mare will both run at the next Ashburton spring meeting. There are a number of other useful horses in the stable.