MORRINSVILLE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Morrisville, Thursday.
Tin: township has liccr. enveloped in smoke iVrseveial d.iys post, wising fioni a large swamp fire binning between here and Woodlands ; nearly the whole of the s\\ amp being on inc. A change of wind 01 shower ci: lain would be mos,t accentable. The fanncis around hero arc complaining bitteily oi" the destruction wrought by the hula?, which so soon as the turnips show above giound, swaim down upon the crop in thousand?, and have done a vast amount of injiny to hundreds of acres of turnip ciop in this district. Uaivcsting on the Lockeibie estate has now aimo.-t come to a close. Reaping and binding was finished last week, and carting and stacking- is also well nigh completed. During the lirst fortnight of hmvesr, the weathei was very frying, and the greatest piaihe is due j\ir i\l. Ifanisoii, the manager of the estate, for ihe excellent and b^stem.itic inannei in which he arranged cvtr) thing, and the satisfactory way in which such a large arra of cereal crop has been secured.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 2
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179MORRINSVILLE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Morrisville, Thursday. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 2
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