COUNTRY NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 396, 16 September 1911, Page 5

COUNTRY NEWS.

Maticrc. | The bleat, of the calf at the present. ! time is quite as welcome and as inusi- | cal to settlers as the "voice o; the j turtle' to the love-sick and much j married King .Solomon. Ihe cry of j lambs and calves certainly portends a j prosperous time to settler -', particu- i iarly as the death, rate i:- very tow. The season has been very dry up i)H j lately, which, while good It r La- ma,is has not. given the suoden growth ol grass seed at tins time. bain j commenced failing on the twelith ane. ( already the green «u the pasitna s is j very lironminceii, ! Considerable prepars I ioana .in L - j ing made to build by several pes: onrwho have, bought portmm- oi tlie j Phillips' estate. j Tho railway purveyor? are now peg- | ging through the ALatiere tovrnshigj and the gang are camped at. the j twelve-mile peg. With so much bag- I ging and pegging; we are wontiertng i when that sod-tornim: is going to I eventuate. iVrtam bottles are get- I ting cob-webhy waitingfor that, iiapp.v i event, ami if the- enntentr. prove j "heady" on that occasion the persons- ! in authority !'es'|)ons;b!e !or the delay j must take tho blame for what happens. ; Dr and Mrs Lumsden arrived here : on tho Bth insf., having reacheo V el- • lington three diays t-ariier by the R.i\LS. Tainui. We are all very glad to welcome the s.e.venl of the e.e-ctoi and. shall no doubt, v.-pen things- settle down, appreciate the benrhf of a :a sident; medical man. | We regret, to learn that, Mr L. hior peth ha.s succumbed to 'be sednct ions of an Arcadian existence, said is lesvi ing us to take on farming at. Ken- ! nedy's Bay,. Corcmand*-!, ami sa-vers his connection with the linn ot Inner | and Williams in a few weein : time. Tho ssawniills lioro are co!)g;es(eti ' with orders, and many p.ersosis are waiting to buiid but iack the material. , Mr Monk is at present in t.he dis- \ trict, having severed his connection i with tho local factory and accept on a. ; better position with McKwan a.nd Co., jin the machinery department. Mr is. | Gilbert is at present at his new post : in tiie dairy factory, but is not at pre - | sent accompanied by Mrs Gilbert-. ! A fair amount, of interest is being. : taken in the side oi '.ownship sections :at Taumarunui on the dLLi, and a • number of persons nuildmg on , those already acquired.