THE HARVEST AT TARANAKI.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 111, 24 March 1853, Page 3

THE HARVEST AT TARANAKI.

(From the "Taranaki Herald," of Feb. 23rd.) Notwithstanding the fluctuating and often unfavorable state of the weather during the last three weeks, we have to congratulate the settlement on lilt' highly satisfactory accounts received of tlm harvest throughout these districts, and the success which ill most cases has attended the endeavours made to secure the crops in tin; Taco of difficulties of no ordinary character. The fanners here are uniform in characterising the crops of this year as far exceeding I hose of several preceding years and as approaching to those of the earlier years of the settlement which secured to Taranaki thehappvcognomenl of the "Garden of New Zealand." The wheat crops are especially spoken of as very line, the grain being large and plentiful in the ear. After Providence, no doubt much of this favourable state of alfaii-s is attributed to the intelligence and improved practical experience of the fanner with the increase of stock throughout the settlement. Itarley, oats, and indeed all the ordinary crops, art; said to be exceedingly promising, and the agriculturist may this year lind in the ipialily anil abundance of his produce ample remuneration for tin 1 labour and anxiety attendant on this arduous, and to some extent pieeaiious occupation. The want of labour has unfortunately been

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