WAIAPU.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1608, 4 September 1874, Page 346

WAIAPU.

The correspondent of the Poverty Bay ■Standard writes,'under date 24th August: —We hare at last been favored with mild and apparently settled weather, and vegetation of every description, is thriving well. Peach trees are budding, and indications of spring are perceptible every where. The natives are as busy as bees with their tilling and sowing operations, which are now in a forward state. Were the Government Geologist to pay us a visit now, he would find the district a much more prolific field for fossils than it was at his last visit. The winter gales and deluging rains have so revolutionised the coast as to have unearthed and exposed to view many rare and valuable specimens which were previously hidden, and which must prove exceedingly interesting to the geologist. Some fragments of variegated colored stones of great beauty have been lately picked up in the vicinity of the East Cape, which a lapidary could doubtless turn to good account. Iharaira Te Honkamo's feast is to commence on the 21st proximo, and as the Hon. D. M'Lean and other European gentlemen are to be present thereat, the gathering is expected to be much larger than it would otherwise be.