CANTERBURY.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 217, 18 November 1859, Page 3

CANTERBURY.

Our Growing Crops.—The late rains have fallen most opportunely for our growing crops of corn. The long drought had begun to tell most prejudicially upon many of the wheat and oat fields, and the feed upon many ofthe pastures was so scant that the cattle feeding upon them had hard work to pick up a living. The appearance ofthe cattle, however, feeding upon the dried grass went to show the correctness of the grazier's apothegm applied to scorched grass, that " roast meat is good meat." The early wheat crops are now looking exceedingly promising, and may be expected to yield from 40 to 50 bushels per acre. The later sown crops are not so good in appearance but the rains will do much to improve them. Corn crops in their early stage injured by dry weather usually recover themselves after rain, but when injured by over much moisture, are generally past recovery. The early oat crops are looking well and the late ones but indifferently, but this grain is so contradictory in its prognostics, that the final ? roof of harvest may shew a quite different result, 'he barley crops, where they were properly put in, that is, on thoroughly pulverised land may be expected to yield a good crop. We fear that many of the hay crops will be light, the rain falling scarcely early enough for them. Our agriculture must make much progress and our labor more abundant than it is now before the reporter will have much to tell of green crops and to speak critically of mangold wurtzel or of turnips, Swedish Scotch, or White.— Canterbury Standard, November 3. The Kaipoi Presbyterian Church.—This new building was opened for public worship on Sunday last when divine service was conducted by the Rev. C. Fraser, of Christchurch, both forenoon and afternoon. The collection which was for the removal of the small burden of debt lying upon the building, amounted to £10. We understand that the Bite was the liberal contribution of a gentleman residing in theKaiapoi district. The erection is highly creditable to the contractor both in its outward appearance and its inward arrangements. It is almost the only building in this province in the Grecian style of architecture, and may therefore at tractsome notica by its departure from theprevailing Gothic.—/^November 10.