CAMPBELLTOWN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 35, 31 December 1880, Page 2

CAMPBELLTOWN.

W .- ■ (FROM OUR OWN* COBRRSPOXDEXT.) The close of another year has brought with it a season of festivity. Christmas Day passed off very quietly here, albeit there wero some famous dinners throughout the settlement on that day, plum pudding and roast beef having the predominance. The beef we had on this occasion was really lirst-class, the best and fattest I have Been in the district. Ie waß fattened on the excellent pastures of F. Rioh & Co., our local butchers. We are to have a "hop" on New Year's night, to be held in a marquee erected some little distance in the buah. This is the first of anything of the kind that has been held here. Those who are not well up in dancing will have to content themselves with scratching and killing mosquitoes, whose numbers are something like five with nineteen noughts multiplied by ten with nineteen more noughts, minus twenty I have jußt killed by one slap on my poor cheek. The timber for the school is being carted up daily by a bullock dray, -which sometimes gets stuck in bad pieces of the road, but with a little coaxing in the way of swearing (as you know, a bullock driver could not get along without a little of that) aud a few rounds each of that merciless whin, the dray is finally got out and proceeds on its way. These bad pieces of road are on John's road, and when the new Highways Board gets in .working order something should be done to it. There are four very bad pieces between the foot of John's road and the end of Banks' road, which, if repaired, would greatly facilitate, , the conveyance of timber from Freeman and Wylds' sawmill to Campbelltown. I should advise settlers who are intending to build to give their orders and get them executed at once, so that the timber may be carted while the roada are fairly passable, as it will cost much more to bave it carted in the winter, if it can be carted at all. We are baying very fine weather, mingled with gentle showers, which add greatly to the growth of the crops. We are considerably sheltered by bush from the strong winds that have been pie vailing these last few days. There is a gocd deal being done in grass seed this year. The oats and wheat in the settlement look promising of a plentiful harvest. The potatoos . in particular, are very good. This is, I believe, the best season there has boen for some time back.