WAIKAIA.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 346, 8 April 1884, Page 3

WAIKAIA.

=*> — — — ~ : (From our own Correspondent.) • - Last week wo had four consecutive lino days' and pur farmers xa^ac gfibci "headway with tneir 'harvest.' 'Saturday was sliowery, and yesterday ;(Sunday) line with frost at night. Sever.il of the formers have their oats in stack, and a portion of their wheat c\it, but on matty of the farms the wheat is still standing ripening in patches. I regret having to chronicle an accident

to Meewrs M'Lran and Hutton's threshing engine. The ernnk -pin;Qn.rne out of the conned ing rod when the engine was TunTimer nt high speed, and the rod becoming disengaged from the crank the piston split Ihc first cylinder cover. The guides of the T>i°lon rod and cros-'head were also damaged. The dnmaged parts have been sent to town, and will be replaced with all possible despatch, as a breakdown at the beginning of tho season is a serious • misfortune for the mill owners. Business' of all kinds "is quiet here, and complaints of the- times general. We are not brought within the favor of the Waimea Plains Ttnihvny like Gore, and are very much disgusted to find that we are not to be rated as you are. ,We ; would like something for a change, 'if 'only' a ' railway rate of 3s 4d in the &. Tho farmers in. block X., Waikaia, who recently purchased their sections are busy buildinsr/fencfng, etc., and when the land now ready ■'.>• - . is placed in the market and rold wo -v •• ;: large addition to our present p^rm 1 i: Mining m.-i (•■ ore quiet and chiefly confined to the C'-'nese who as a rule are very TeMoont as to their returns. Waikaia, March 7, 1884.