TONGAPORUTU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1903, Page 4

TONGAPORUTU.

g* (From oca Own Oorbesposdent.) p Shan is nothing startling to chronicle Hong this northern coast of the proThe Christmas and New Tear ■holidays poised oft quietly, Lord team at your end being the > principal attraction. The weather has Inot been favorable for out-door sports. The kst month of the snmmer and the first of the year bave been very wet. .".The rivers and creeks are now in high I flood, and enormous l»rd slips k have taken plate on the hill @uid at the bridge over the road. §lhe main read is going to ba coasider|kbly improved this autumn, the bad Iglaioei are to be metalled with sandstone, pand the sharp turns to be blown off with powder. A large araa of land was taken up recently in WaroS.D.on ;the Upper Tongaporulu, and road forrffiation is proceeding in that direction. •Those who have bush to burn seem to fte out of it, and are anxious for a ■month of dry weather. Grass is plenti§ful and a'ock looking well, but dairyjvmen say thattheie is not much butter Wik the in ilk. Some of the sheep f >rjj stars cannot get their theep shorn on account of the weather. Mr Newton % King has a monster cattle and sheep' jj, fair at Awikino on s:h February, jfc-These, and periodical sales, bring a con--1 siderable traffic ever Mt. Messenger— vehicles and horsemen, the bulk ot the * stock going through the t uanel.