Local Intelligence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 625, 3 November 1858, Page 5

Local Intelligence.

The weather has been hot and dry now for two months, contrasting strongly with July and August. The want of rain is beginning to be felt both in country and town. The young grain crops exhibit in many parts the commencement of injury from drought, though not to anything like a sericus amount. In Lyttelton water begins to be scarce in the higher part of the town. Among the hills, though the dry weather has impeded the germination of seeds and the success of transplanting and similar operations, its effect has been favourable among most varieties of fruits. Apples, pears, plums, and all small fruit, in most gardens, promise unusual abundance, though in some the hot winds which occasionally blew during October affected the pear trees, and even goosebei'ries severely ; in other places the effects of the long continued wet of winter have been apparent. Still, as we have mentioned, the garden prospects are very good in the matter of fruit, and everything is forward. The first ripe strawberries of which we have any account were brought in on Sunday last. Letters from A.karoa mention abundant prospects, with the exception of peaches, which are almost everywhere a comparative failure.