CARNARVON.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 18, 4 January 1879, Page 3

CARNARVON.

. X"fBQM .QT*^„9W^ eqRBKSPQNPBNT.]-_ - * News 'fs exceedingly scarce ; there is litJle,pr.riojj\ing stirring. .The-hpl'days jiaYe v ftraWn numbpris. put of the district to seek enjoyrfjen.'Ljihjßvhere. Boxing Day was conspicuous ; by its quietness. Many -{sent to to- the sports T^e**e*i a tn4iers went io Wanganui, while tnrtteo'ivent to Porawhanui, where a p[c.nip--pdprc. ;theL> auspices- of the exißc£tej's..tliere, -I believe — was given. .{Some also .signalised the /advent of that S a 7 °y^ a P.i rt y i n the. eyenlng, which pfefse'a^fr with.aitthe.ec^^arid select; ness for whiwflVaftgiti'k'ei V proverbial. There is to be a""family i -gathenng. -pii NeJ&^f-rfr*S-I)ay at the residencc-of Mr McKenzie, of-Pointzfipld, which is ah aaso s n v ual-jft»titu'aQaf aiTtr.Jias'' "hitherto been amostenjp^abie gathering, always-lo-oke'a^'foFftani* to Villi* 'plea-sureablc.. ai^cifpatf amv^h^uia'^ Tr'eather'prbVe' fil Mli iß J^ cr i 1} S' t ' ::: ;'i : ; ;:: v;, , "'~ : "-' H .V- Whets friend.meefs.fr^nd^. wffl'fee"'nQ''eieeption'. ' "If is also m con-' tefflplation ..to. haro- the- yearly seasidepicnic^,,pending, qf course, the .p ro.-. pftfousr'ess "of the day. . ' T4ie* children 'of our school were de* termineq-.riot;iti) .allow their teacher, Miss Chatwip, to leave for tho holidays withbtT^-a "token of esteem and gratitude on their part? As the -time for. breaking-up came, somewhat sudden upon them, and perhaps for the wan^af' a good leader iti ""tlie .matter, a present could not be obtained m time ;" so they (the children) then deputed Mrs Campiainld^rocV're. ope and fx>r.w ar d it to, Mw»@hatwiii- p\i 'their,. behalf.- The presen^^edhsi'sted ' of ft beautiful greenstone bro.och r .set in -eolonialgold, and is*of considerable, .yabie, - . ; Tlie^teacher* hrgiily^deli^hted, the mdrc so as it-affprtted her a proof of the esteem iv is held, by the children, and* 'the?, existence' of -'-such good feeling." !;.. S. . • • ■: -. 'E very tlmr|f^in. the shape of crops is looking realty „wj.»Jjl this. year.- ..Should; the v^ather., prove . favorable, aprolific harves£,"may he ypnfjdently expected. T ' TJ»e_..weather— lias- bettr-oppressi vely hot , these ( few\,days, but has . now chafegedV'a-'heaVy "nor'-wester is blow-_ ing which is "ji;k"»ly. fp lay' Hut- heavy" crops.