WAIPUKURAU.

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 10, 16 October 1878, Page 3

WAIPUKURAU.

(to the editor of the waipawa* mail.) Sir, —Bounding the western horizon like the gorgeous setting of a vast landscape picture, the distant snowclad cloud-capped Ruahine appears unchanged ; twenty years’ vicissitude of winter and summer lias left no perceptible trace on its rugged brow, anti whether seen in winter drapery of snowy white, or in the varied hues of summer dress, is ever the same, an object of grandeur]and beauty, feasting the eye and filling the heart with emotion and desire after the sublime, the true, the beautiful. But the nearer and lesser hills and slopes show signs of change, becomfast denuded of their native garb and primitive adornments of cabbage palms, shrubs, flax, grasses, and flowers, are being gradually hahilimented in the less picturesque but lovely green of cultivated grasses ; so that now where the wild boar and progeny used to rut and raven, the little lambs do feed and j! w Such is the change-and progress here that the language of the shepherd poet might be employed with propriety :—“ The valleys are covered with corn ; the pastures are clothed with flocks ; they shout for joy, they also sing; and the little hills rejoice on every side.’* Yours, &<■„ TAVISTOCK.