Matiere.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 300, 5 October 1910, Page 2

Matiere.

Fine weather has made an appreciable effect on our roads, which are now drying up nicely. Stock are looking well and the lambs particularly so. The Niho Nino factory started a few days ago, and the Matiere factory started on October Ist. Both factories report increased supply and settlers, as a rule, appear to begin to realise the monthly cheque is a very comforting item in the economy of the farm. Mr Phillips is going to "make his pile" from the humble "taiwa," if all goes well, as he has planted about five acres of the Northern Star potato. One wishes him every success in his enterprise, as it seems strange that Southern potatoes should be sold in this fertile district. Mr Luckman is adding to his shop and is installing another forge, while Mr Gray, his brother Vulcan, is kept as busy as possible in local work. Mr Robert Dench has just got his L.K.G. milking plant in operation, and is very pleased with the results and the manner in which Mr G. F. Monk has fitted up the same. Mr J. H. Lyon is erecting a six-bucket plant, driven by a five horse-power Tangye engine, fitted with vacuum pump and water heater, etc. Mr Hunt is again starting the manufacture of bricks, and we wish the genial "Jimmy" better luck this time, as last autumn he lost heavily owing to heavy rain at burning time. Mr Thompson is doing a fair amount of cultivation and his farm promises to be one of the prettiest in the district. Mr Graham has just finished felling his town and suburban sections and it js astonishing what an open and altered prospect results from a little clearance. Mr Fraser, at the 12-miie, has commenced cutting at his mill, but so far the roads forbid any very extensive cartage. Mr Phillips' large livery stable is now nearly complete, and is a credit to the town, being considerably larger than the other two now here. I am very sorry to have ruffled the feelings of your correspondent, who feels aggrieved because I reported Mr Tom. Moore had "had another breakdown." Would your correspondent class the mass of wreckage at the

railway crossing "a break down" or a "break up?" for the genial Tom in a double sense of the term. I have given credit to our mail carrier in former notes for his "sticking to the ribbons" more than once, and am quite prepared to endorse your correspondent's eulogy, and I hope that my mistake, if there is any, may be passed over for the same reason of excuse given for the presence of a baby in one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, "that it was only a little one."