DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 March 1920, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

(From Our Own ('orr Wild turnips are also noticeable in so nlaees, and these should be pulled out : going to seed, as once they get estabI in the land it takes some little, time to icate them. vina to the warm rains and consequent growth of feed, the cows are now holding up well, and the local factory Is producing more cheese than at this period last season, though there are not so many cows being milked, Mr. Newton King's spodlal dairy heifer sale to be held, at the Uvenul yards en the Bth of April. Is attracting a large entry, and buyers of ,lersey3, Holsteins, or Shorts will have a good assorl I, and judging from the high prices should be realisi weaper heifers are now being s up to .£7 per neaa, ana it ted they will go even higher yet. this end to the Opuuake ... two or three decent wins have been ported Though none of the dividends * quite up to that of Wairoa Belle at Ne (fancy over 1500 investors and only ticket or.!) recently, still it did not take a very large outlay to net a decent return by backing Geld Work and Master -Curran, the Waitara representatives The Awnklno dog trial on the Bth and f" of April is sure to attract a large numl of visitors from this district, as the cm always spares no effort to provide good spor ami those attending can be sure of a heaity . — e t went j horses at w'" viewing the pictures! surroundings the other day. a. visiting soffered long odds (our friend is fairly lib with his odds when there are no Ink about), that if it could have been arrant to hold the meeting during the Prince ... Wales' visit and Induced His Royal Highness to be present, he would write home and tell his royal father that in all his racing i perlences (Rlccarton and Flemlngton given the time of his life had been spent on the Waltoltol beach. In support of his contention the gentleman wanted to know wh< else would be found a meeting whore all 1 triers, and the owners dl ■litnl whether the stakes v than not get a start were prepared to put hree stone overweight? And m the events the Prince could e a nieul of fresh mussels and pl~~ _ ight off the beach, and within a 1... chains of the course he could explore an historic Maori burial ground, when iterred the remains of ninny warrloi., ~,,„ 1 to be conquered before his royal and pected great-grandmother could call this r land her own. A Native, who at the age of sixty-seven can still do a fair day's work, got off a rather good one on the pakeha the other day. Asked how it was that the Maoris, " we'd to let their land bewlth blackberry and furze aking much effort to check tlio he old fellow went off like a packet of crackers, and replied: "Why you talk like that? Before your father come, no gori no blackbelly. no bag-wort, no "plue;" no nothing, but fern When he come along he put 'am In the fence and they get all over the Maori land. Den tho Government, lie come along and say, 'Why you no cut the blackbelly? S'oose you no clear him o~ we take your ir'id away.' What the - —■—j you call that I" l\ls carrying bi ivho, I hope, wl