DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS.

[From Our Own Correspondent.']

AL.FREDTON.

Farmers are in great heart this season, and are confidently looking torward to a good winter. As fax as feed is concerned, the stock should winter exceedingly well, especially cattle, since there is an abuf/dauee of rough feed. The mild winters that we have iluul/during .the laist four years (have induced a number of small farmers to heavily overstock. Tins practice no doubt pays with plenty of luck, but the first hard winter 'that we encounter .will' produce a few poorer but wiser settlers. Messrs Kehbell Bros., 'of To Hoe, have -set an' example of the benefits likely to be accrued from early sowing or sowing new bueh land as soon as the fire has been over it. In this' instance they had a block of laud of , a'bout 200 acres winch was felled last, ■winter burntt and sown about the beginnuig of February, and .now, instead of being 'like mo&t other (burns in "<tlhe district, dark patches disfiguring :bhe landscape, it is a beautiful dark green, .and ready to be fed on. This will easily winter three cull hoggets this winter, and make sheep of them. Of course this has been an exceptionally good (season, but no ome has ever regretted, letfciug their grass seed lay with the ashes until i.he first, raiii. ' • r

I The Masixrtou County Council is paying a good deal ox attention! to our local' roads. this .•summer. An unusual amount of metal is -being spread upon ihe .main and district roads of far better quality in mo&t instarJces than usual. It is j>roposed ,to call an indignation meeting if ddie IRiding is called upon to make any further dltbuirsemenitis towards the Waipoua bridge .works.

•lia'bbits have received a considerable check-this. lae-t sum/mer. There have been very iew young ones in evidence on account of the wetness of the season. -Game is very scarce right throughout tihe .district this year. Alf.redton people are not at all enthusiastic! over ,the prospects, of the oil bores wQrioh are it© be put down in some parts of the district. Nothing less .than a volcanic upheaval could arouse (the neighbourhood from the state of coma i'nto which it has fallen, [ especially as far as public matters are ! concerned.

CARTER TON.

Mr Hemsnvor'th, a poultry specialist, of Sydney, .will judge the poultry section at jbhe .South AVaiiarapa Poultry Show here in July next. Mr and liirs F. K. Tyler, who have been oil a holiday -visit tto Rotoj-na, returned home on Saturday even'ing, (much Kropreesed by ,thctr visit. Mr A. R. .Wallis, of .Carterton, was the stioccfi&ifiul tenderer for the erection cf a dwelling for "Mr T. Kay, at Ckireville. The work was put fin-hand yesterday ir.iorning. A collision...between* a gig and-mo--tor car occurred ou the Waioliine bridge on 'Saturday evening;; AMr Collins, of Featherston, accompanied !by » young lady, was driving; to Carterton, .when they raet a motor car belonging to Mi- H. H. Wolters, and driven .'by Ma- D. Jjyrne. Both vehicles carried lights, imd the collision occurred on this, side c'f rthe approach, where there is a deep dip, which obscures 'anything appiuaching .un'til on the .bridge. The inrjiacrc threw >ilhe occupants of the gig ov/i, .broke, both shafts, which freed the horse, the animal galloping nradly.ibra mile and sa half, and then dropped idown land died. Beyotfd a shaking, the people in, iiho gig escaped, while these in .'the car {the driver and the ,you'ng men) escaped rfreo. /The car suffered a bent mudguard., ibut the vehicle was terribly wrecked.

Porter O. iW. Bridge, of the local railway staff, leaves on Thursday aiex.'t tm promotion ,to Wellington, where lie takcte up a ip&SMiioiT. in the signal box. During ibis sojourn in Carterton, Mr Eindge lf& ira-de malny friends by bis 'bbligirg au'cl courteous mamner, all <;.f whom will .be pleased to boar of (' ilris well-descrvcd jprorr.btion. Mr I Krost, iof rCgecn -Bush, will succeed Mr Bridge in Carterton. Mr R. Ritchie, who has been sari- ) otiisLy ill .at Ihihape, h(ar> diffidently recovered to be able, t'o Seave- the hospital, and is .l.bw lmalith reci:porating in ~Carterton*. '*' The Carterton Ifrass Band visited the.' South riYJa/irarapa ..Hospital mi iSmid'ay afternoon, 'and rendered a programme •of music, which was highly •appreciated. A number of local sports arc busy (preparing for .the opeding ,&eaaon next iweek. The locally trained horses, which •were competing at the Tren'tbiam niietiting, returned home en Monday afternoon. Several of them will jpnocecd .r.ciitl] to 'the Pahricralton meeting. ,