MORRINSVILLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 2

MORRINSVILLE.

[From our own Correspondent.] Morrinsvillk, Monday. Harvesting on the Lockerbie estate commenced last week ; and the liinnagrrMr Marie Harrison, lias now fonr corn, bined self-reapers an 1 binders at work, .Two of t he machines are being run under .contract IV Mr Pat Bolton, one a '" Hmh'sby V t)re other n " Bnckye ;" the other two' machines, which belong to the estate^ are also by these well-known makers } all fonr machines being new this season. The acreage' of oats and wheat to be cnt amounts to about 1000 acres, rfiVJ on' }jie WfUilethe eroppromises to be a 'good ,dh<t. ' el OYie of Richardson's (Cambridge) wiiutifiijlb hub lately beeri erected on this estate 'for pumping w«ter 'from a lurue and deep jvell ppeeia'fy 'sunk for this purpose. The water is jumped direct into a large tnnk erecte i ftdj»cel]i't to the well, ami the surplus water is Conveyed to troughs in two other paddjOpka by means of pipes, which pass under the public road. """ ' ISlr Jas. Wiseman is carrying out extensive drainage operations on the same estate, being a continuation of the work carried on by the same contractor last year. From fifteen to twenty men are at present employed, and I 'understand Mr Wiseman finds it difficult to get a sufficient number of iuen''suited to the work in progress. 4 * Nothing )et has been definitely decided with respect to thWre- building of the Pi cen'x Hoti 1, nV^antime business is being carried on I y'lio-t Smith in the old Nottingham Castp Hotel, which wa* rloseii for"Bonie tlnue prior to the recent fire which destroyer! the Phoenix. The farmers generally in this district are rerjr.baey.jnsf now, and all are much encouraged by the advance in the prico of agricultural produce. Tlie price of beef however still remains far too lo*.