Manawaru.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222039, 20 January 1900, Page 2

Manawaru.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The rain passed off very light, much to nearly everyone’s regret. Unless we do get some rain I am afraid the turnip crop will be very light. There are some indications of a change in the weather to day (Wednesday), and I hope we shall have a good downpour and well soak the ground. Allow me to apologise for having disturbed the peace of tho milk supEliers of the Manawani ci-eamery. I ad po idea they were such a happy family, and yet it was a supplier that complained to me, so I gained m3’ nows in a legitimate way without sneaking round a building in the dai’k and listening under the window. I think that it would not have seemed so egoistical on Mr Whitburn’s part had he left it to the suppliers to say for themselves that they wore satisfied before he took such a prodigious blast of his own trumpet. I know full well things hum down at the Grand Central sometimes. Yet we would not part with our dear old butter puncher for double his weight in brick dust. It is not to bo supposed for one moment that the suppliers would make a complaint to Mr Whitburn. They would naturally go to the head of the firm, not make useless complaints to a servant. The weather was very hot last weok. One day the thermometer registered 95 deg. in the shade, but to-day it is much cooler. The nights are very cold, often approaching a frost towards morning. The dry hot day and cold nights is causing a great shrinkage in he supply of milk to the creamery. t