THE COUNTRY.
We understand that there is every prospect of an abundant harvest this year. The crops are looking remarkably well, Providence having favoured us lately with some most refreshing showers. "He makes the grass the hills adorn, And clothes the smiling fields with corn." At Epsom, Remuera, Tamaki, Papakura, and the various Pensioner Settlements, all is autumnal and beautiful, so that it may be said of temporal as well as of spiritual things, "he that soweth and he that reapeth shall rejoice together." This is the more cheering as we suffered so much from drought last year,—an unusual thing in New Zealand,—and trusting to the wonted productiveness of the soil, our native friends allowed their attention to be distracted by gum digging. Owing to the limited quantity of seed sown and the little care bestowed upon the plantations, a total failure ensued, and many of our friends, even now, are obliged to live upon fern-root. There is no apology for the natives in regard to the failure of crops, for the pimple reason, that they have abundance of land adapted to all seasons.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 January 1855, Page 5
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184THE COUNTRY. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 January 1855, Page 5
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