OAMPBELLTOWN NOTES. +

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 51, 20 February 1880, Page 2

CAMPBELLTOWN NOTES.

(By a Settler.) Allow me a small space in your columns to tell you a little about Campbelltown, as I do not hear much of it outside the settlement. Notwithstanding the infancy of the settlement, there Ins becu some harvesting done ia oats and hay. The crops of oats add hay speak highly for the germinating quality of th« land. Whore the land has been ploughed once, it giv<;S a return of 36 bushels per acre, and where it has been ploughed twice, it returns 45 bushels per acre, the oats being of first- class sample. Grass grows here in abundance, and in Mr liolert Campbell's property also, adjoining the settlement. Ihe cattle are actually trading amongst it. v>li«> p and cattle fatten very quickly here. There are, I believe, two or thiee sections still open for purchase, and I 'would advise anyone s>> inclined, or who wants a really good homestead fur himself, to embrace the opportunity now offered. Potatoes have partly failed this

year, owing to the wet wetiUl«^«re hid some time ago. " burin*/ the winter months there a c parts of the mails thai air ahno'+t impassable, but I am glbd to see th it the Kt j t Ifrs have taken the matter into consideration, hihl determined not. to put iv another winter without making those placjs passable, ihe settl. -rs adjoining John's load, assistance. bein o given by Mr M'Lennan, Invej.i t Ciimplrfted about t«:ii chdns of roiu I, by layintr sciub, and carting on to it clay, as there is no shingle near here; and I hear that their labor does not end here, as they intend doing a deal more yet. I anticipate great fires here next month, from the bush felled by the settlers last winter. 1 think there have been about 400 acres of bush felled, which means that settlers have not been idle. Concerning the township of Campbell as you are aware, one»half of the sections were sold some nine months ago, but as yet there has not much been dene by the holders of sections, probably from the unfinished state of Campion's road, which, I think, -if finished, would encourage (or, I should say, enable) them to come into their sections. The Warden, T believe, has done his utmost to get this piece of road finished, but I am sorry to say his colleagues ruled against him. A bvickmaker has started in the township, and I trust he will be encouraged for his enterprise by a liberal demand.