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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8699, 7 January 1907, Page 3

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•om Our Own Correspondent.)

as sorry to hear that Mr Bobt. sson, while cutting toi. had the tune to cut one of his feet. Being iself he had to slop the profuse ng as best he could, then drag If to the nearest source of help, vhence a doctor was notified who, irrival, found it necessary to tie ered artery and stitch up the

advent of the New Year was ned by us iu diverse ways. Some s, with their usual misdirected p, blockaded the entrance to d of our business places and traps, ins, drays and empty cases were up under verandahs. As much p indeed was expended in this sort ias would have provided winter od for our feeble and distressed. > heat here for the last few days

sen very oppressive—the thermoregistering 115 in the sun and I jsured by a human instrument, mder an iron roof where hay wns packed that it was 212 (boiling The crops in and about here are sing a good yield and I’m told lie majority iu theSardon district eking remarkably well. There is 3of wheat on South Cliff farm s a perfect picture and which in pinion of experts exceeds anything i in that prolific locality, one cornbeing that that wheat looks as as hairs on a cat’s back 1

;er in absence of nearly 20 year* Wibley—nee Chalmer—paid us a ig visit. As a teacher of the iof those days this lady did adile work. Like many other sucil teachers she was induced to (upon the all important and multiious duties inseparable from matri-

' and motherhood. She still, howfinds time to indulge her literary 3 and several of her contributions irious publications have reached by way of South Africa, all of b show the writer possesses that observant faculty peculiar to the ligent of her sex, together with a ; descriptive stylo which is the roof much. study and practice.

is reminds me that of my S.A. spondents, in descriDOig a recent ay journey, tells how he travelled two young Boer women who, with smoked cigarettes, and were defily sociable. Discussing the late one of his companions told of her sriences at the front, and the other she wanted to go, but her folks Id not let her. Xo wonder the :s are first rate fighting men when r mothers, sisters, sweethearts and ;s are built (Dutch) on such comre lines.

F, T. Stead reviews an article an ■lslamism, written hy his son •ed, and no one will, I think, after ling the following, consider Dad’s meats parental llattery. Stead, , said he read the article with “ coni and surprise.” “It is diliicult to words to express its extreme lack lolitical common sense. . . This, ely, is the very delirium of politics, sis all very pitiful. . . I sincerely eno one will imagine from the ie of the writer that he in any way resses my sentiments or those of ■ English statesman.” I wonder Alf smarts more under such mblic spanking than he did when same thorny hand came clown upon tweed-land. Knowing how thorough old man is, perhaps Alf exclaimed, ome Stead every time.”