PAPAKAIO.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1220, 15 March 1880, Page 2

PAPAKAIO.

?/ \ *<"■; i 1 11 , / j'llvf.l HS^illii 1 tej For |' ; raiher ; jhive4biiild some heavy wifidfe; which werej by 11*0 means agreeatle.-" W&Vhave also had some rain, ; and last^Wednesday and Thursday-ft -*was so wet as to stop harvest operations, which, however, were again resumed on Friday morning. now eithep .stacked or threshed, and very !liftie';icaii'vriow be seen in the stook, so that jbfrgJES&nJhwvA' But "On the hills they are ,not_ soJEar advanced, places -cittirig- is not iinishea.*yej;.* ... I notice that the grain season on the railway has now begun. This last week several large trains of grain passed down to town; and even from Papakaio some half dozen trucks have gone, some of 'which, I believe, on account of the low price, are going to Dunedin. The railway authorities as. yet have hot kept to thei? promises, namely that of stationing a man, at Papakaio, although they have made ready an office for that pwc-pose. Winter is fast approaching us, and the grass in the padctqe&g is fast drying up, so that in a short time they will be very bare. But one oonsolation this year is the plentifulness of straw, which will partly make up for the want of grass. Pork, I believe, is going to be a sqaree commodity here this season, fcff very few 'people on the Plain have gat pigs, and they seem to be very difficult to procure. again about to be be resumed tQ a certain extent on the water-race, and I belieye that there will be a fev? m,en required for that purpose.