Manawaru.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222035, 11 January 1900, Page 3

Manawaru.

(From Our Own Corresponden*.)

The welcome rain at last; and it is to be hoped we. shall have a bountiful supply, for the paddocks were getting very dry and water for cattle very scarce. Farmers have been waiting for rain so as they can drill- their turnips. Cows are shrinking very much in th‘-ir milk, so rain is much needed. Speaking of milk reminds me that the Manawaru farmers are beginning to realise that the Grand Central is the creameiy, and some are talking of taking their milk to it unless some great alteration is made in the Manawaru creamery. If they do make the c -ntera placed change, I am sure they jyvill_ find Mr East very straightforward and obliging. I quite agree with you, Mr. Editor, that stretching barb wire across the railway bi’idge was a * dastardly act, and so was riding a man down in the road. A celebrated judge, in England, decided that a person on foot, 1 unless there was a sidewalk,’ has as much right to half the road as a man on horseback. Being on a horse or in a trap did not confer on him the privilege of monopolising oil the road ; in fact, his being the stronger power made him the more responsible for taking care of the weaker. But where is the ‘Owl?’ He flys by night, and ought to have his eyes on such evildoers. He can attack a country cockatoo and try to hold him up to ridicule; but such doings as smashing windows, ringing firebells, putting bai*bed wire across bridges, and riding down pedestrians on the Queen’s highway. Why, he simply retires to his den, puts his head under his wing and goes to sleep or dies. Quite a frost last Thursday and Friday nights, doing much damage to the gardens in this neighbourhood. Mr. Ambury will meet the milk suppliers at the school-house, Te Aroha West, on Thursday evening next (tonight).