DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 16 December 1911, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

Lincoln* ROAD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I K.ir the past two or tliree weeks all the talk has been on polities, and never before have farmers gone to the polling booths with it greater determination to wipe out present and past grievances than tliey did on election day. It is evident the farmers bere were not alone in that determination, as results have shown. Let us hope the result will be in the best interests of all. Apart from politics, things Lave gone on fairly smoothly. Taking the average, the cows are doing very poorly, the reason of which, in one word, is weather. One blessing, considering the very bad spring, is the excellent state of the roads in this district, which is due in no small measure to the Road Board's foreman, Mr. Knofflock. The School Committee are making preparations for securing the annual prizes, which will be awarded before the school breaks up for the Christmas holidays. The fruit trees are not so forward as in other seasons, except the blackberries, which are looking as healthy as every. Anyone striving to get outdoor work done have been hampered at every move owing to the spasmodic attempts of the sun to shine. Some settlers are still rugging cows and horses as in midwinter. HURFORD ROAD. We are beginning to think that the world is upside down, as we will have Christmas upon us in a few days and so ' ir there has been no summer to speak of. ,! Some of the sheep farmers have man- . j aged to get their flocks shorn by dodg- ■ j nig the showers, but there is no straight . ahead work about it.

It is to be hoped the weather will soon clear up, as harvesting ought to be ia full swing in a couple of weeks' time. Our road was quite lively on election day, people making towards the school to cast their votes in favor of their fancied man. Quite a number went to town in the evening. Mr. A. Smith kindly went round with his conveyance assisting the ladies to the booth. Messrs Edwin and C. George are busy carting stones and sand for the concrete work of the much-needed new bridge, to be erected across the Tapuae river, opposite tlue factory. One of our neighbors, Mr. Wadsworth, has had rather a run of bad luck lately. I He was driving a mare to the factory I last week with the animal's foal follow- | ing, when, at the cutting by Air. Chant' 3, the foal jumped down the bank and injured its back, from which injury it subsequently died. He also lost a cow the some day. The County Council have now put a rail at the base of the cutting to prevent further accidents. There are many such places all along our different roads, and I think the Council ought to do something to prevent the animals from running up the sides, as Mr. Wadsworth's was not the only animal I have heard of being killed in a like manner;