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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 332, 28 January 1911, Page 2

i Blight is spreading to rape in some ! districts in Canterbury. Caterpillars | are also doing a lot of damage, and | the sparrows are looking after the { grain in preference to devouring | caterpillars. About Cheviot the small I birds' pest is loudly complained of, j and some early crops have suffered | badly from the cause. ! Lord Islington, in the course of a ! speech in reply tu an addres3 of welI come, on the occasion of his visit to ! Riverton, said that he had realised ! during his brief sojourn in New | Zealand that the industry of agricul- ! ture was one of singular importance to the prosperity of the Dominion. ' He would endeavour, while Governor i of New Zealand tu take all the interest I he could in an industry and enterprise upon which, to so large an extent, the future destiny of the Dominion depended. ! Mr David Peat, of Wanganqi, has ; presented the Council of that town ! with 13J acres of land for the puri pose of providing a playground for I the children of the town. The land is situated on the borough boundary, and constitutes a magnificent gift, the ! value of which it is difficult to esti- : mate. It will be called the David Peat Park,

"Lost in the bush," was the tem- ' porary fate of a man named W. Thorpe, a jobbing compositor who recently worked in Te Kuiti for a brief period. lie went to Mangapeehi the week before last and joinpd Mr H. Macdonald's survey party as cook. , Tlie camp was about five miles out of the township and Thorpe left for it I accompanied by a Maori. On the main party reaching the camp it was ; found that Thorpe had left, declining jto remain in the capacity he was 1 engaged for. As he had not reached Mangapeehi, Messrs Ellis and Bur- ! nanci's permitted three of their staff !to go out, and search for him. The police were also communicated with, and, through the skilful woodcraft i displayed by the Maori guide, the ■ very slight track was followed for two days before the searchers became too worn out to coritiune the search further. It then turned out that Thorp reached a Maori kaianga on the fourth day, and was there nursed back to health and strength ! again, after his rtrest trying experiience - At I