TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 76, 11 December 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

TARANAKI.

The “ Lord Woes ley.” —The latest from the South is that, the wreck has not broken up, but remains upright in its former position, the sea filling it at high water. The coal lias all been removed by the natives to the village, where it is all stacked for future sale to the pakeha. The goods from the wreck (including, we believe, one mail-box) seized by the King natives at Warea were sold by them last week by public auction, one of the natives acting, without license, as auctioneer, when all the articles were sold, without any reserve, for what they would fetch; the proceeds being no doubt, set apart for Matutacra’s use. Mr. ixicmenschncider’s goods have been also sold in the same manner, consisting of the household furniture of a six-roomed house, cooking utensils, and a library of books. We get this information from Hop at a Ngarongomate. — Herald. Agricultural. —Owing to the warm genial rain we have had lately, all the crops are looking remarkably well. In the open land a good deal of pains has been bestowed on the growth of the hleracium , or hawkweed, a plant not generally cultivated, but which seems likely to yield abundantly. In the bush, an extensive and praiseworthy experiment is being tried in the cultivation of the mako, or native currant; this is in full flower and promises to bear well. The poroporo, or bull-a-bull has also, we are glad to see more space allowed it than formerly. But the prevailing crop everywhere is the carduus , or Scotch thistle as is here called, the early spring crop of which is already far advanced and almost fit for cutting, and wo are happy to state a gi-eater breadth of land than we ever remember to have seen has been given up to the growth of this succulent vegetable. Grass, which used to be considered our staple product, has almost disappeared. — From the next No. of the Taranaki Punch.