Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 281, 19 October 1906, Page 2

Oparau.

(from our own cobxispondint.) Grass has been fairly good through tho late dry spell. Gattie are picking up. Bickerings over stray cattle are ( common, one settier having leek 89. I A party of six settlers went ti to the | hills between Aotaa and Oparau to . bant op stray cattle—Messrs Mount* I (>rt, Forbes. Stewart, Mackenzie, ( Page an I Elliott. Thef came across I p’ensy of fam? stray Otltie. Pl mghing for turnips i« being re* ' 6 grtis- 'I as a necessity, and most of t o nun rs of open land are putting ; turnips io. The M«s.?rs Perham aee out at the ' Wtvkato with a mob of springer*. Tho action of the Government re- ' gartiing the payment of survey lieu* 'by the IGth inst. came as a surprise. Ao s relating to native lands are very ' contradictory. Refer to lection 65, ‘ Native Land Court Act, 1894,** which allows six months grace. Catele having proved unpayable of late years, settlers here intend going in for sheep. Hawke'* Bay is spoken of as the best place to get good crossbred Romney ewes to breed from, and he best rams coms from the oldest stud flock* in Otago an I Canterbury (see New Zealand Stud Bock.) It is of the utmost importance io make a . tart with the best Bhe?p procurable. Nu.ubers never pet aate if of poor quaity. One good shrep pays more ib Liteeal inferior, end g’yee. thi <3:- ■ e»•pad .