LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 358, 14 January 1876, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(From our own correspondent.)

The last days of 1875 and the cotnmence- | ment of 1876 liaive been accompanied by just I such weather as would have been gladly welcomed in the month of iN T ovember—viz, nice gentle showers, interspersed with genial sunshine. As it is, grasses and cereals will be luxuriant, but late. Shearing has been retarded, and harvest will tread Sate into each other, and thus thegieatestblessing of each autumn, but, nothwithstandiug ?11 this, our. farms and sheepfolds aro considered as' t,he main stay of the prosperity of the Wakatip —providing us, as they do, with food, with Homes, and with a settled population, which could not be obtained without them. Of C9urse they are not all successful to the same . extent, nor can it be expected that all seasons will give the same return, but still, for all that sensible people in this district cannot help but conclude that the farmer, the sheepowner, and.the miner are each a blessing to . is all. This has in a great measure been brought about by the energy of 3 few minds, * who have steadily fought out the battle of. protection and extension of the privileges, which assisted in the development of those three staple industries named above. It would not be desirable to mention names unless all were included, and space forbids that, but it is quite safe and competent for me to 3iy that tlie mja who have strailed to protect anl extend the privileges of those industries withoat preja lije to either are deservin i of thj h-3:\rfcy thanks of ths whole and the hvMiuess which blesses the inhabitants ."'.of.'' "• th> district under the. sun of 1876 is in great me xsure due" to tfroir energy. Thi role of am isoment which.-was provided . by the Arrow Sports pominictee and LO.G.T. for the Christmas 1 week came off very sucjesfully, and must have been a considerable success for the townsfolk, as the attendance was >o.ifor such-l ill m»Bjy Amongst other varieties we had political addresses from Messrs Bra.lshaw, Co pa, and -Manders, who have been nominated f< r election to the honor of M. H.R. "Mr Bradshaw is, I think, safe, but ere this appears in your columns it- will be decided. Many go in strongly for a local man, no matter what his' difference, and this beiDg the case spcltmg is.out of the question; but,calculating on*the good sense of the field, T do not think it likely that such a feeling will be allowed to interfere to such an extent as to prejudice the common sense of the electors in the House of Eepresentatives of New Zealand, which the leturn of an unqualified person would .undoubtedly do. To your readers, writers, and staff I wish many Happy New Years.