ALFREDTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2567, 7 April 1887, Page 2

ALFREDTON.

[From our owx Correspondent.]

Dry wpather is still.the order of the day, and unless we-get some rain and warm weather during the month it will certainly be a blue look out for stock-' owners.. In the:memory. : .pf the. oldest .settler, suffered so much from_ droupjfis this season. . Boundary* lines.,of the ,'Alfcedtoa Block liaVegiven'a great deal'pf trou,ble and have been' the ( cause of. some Very seriouß mistakes. Not long since a settler;:had^considerable :bloei of bush land felled' ami! graJsecli and'then .'discovered that onjy.a Mere fraction of the land was within his own boundary,' Another settler has. just made the un happy discovery that liis house is built on the boundary line between himself and a strip of Crown;land, and lam told that this settler wjll bo asked by the Land Board to purchase his own house, or in other words, to pay for the improvements on the Crown-.lands. There is something very rotten about all this, settlers are compelled to employ surveyors to!,|oiut out their lines, orelse run the risk of, making such serious mistakes.', i, lam happy to notieelthatwe are in future—that-is if you allow elbow room—to have AUtodto^kossipappeariugin your'columhi.'', ,J must.howr ever, take exception first production. ■ For in jhe '■ first place, Alfredton is not the'gosslpjng hole ho, represents it to are too industrious for that; Tlifc'gossip about the bullock and the pole'of the dray is very small. Wiat a pity Gyclojs' gossiping Mend who -rode the twenty miles to spread the news, did not meet with the same'fato as the polo. Cyclops' notes on the orioket club v are in very bad taste. Why should he object to a cricketer" walking to his wicket with a pair of spectacles on," green or black? He might certainly object'to the man having "a pips in his .jaws," but is' Gyclops' quite sure the pipe was in tho man's mouth. Then again, why should he object to the. gentleman- wearing a," Moagiel coat while fielding ?" Has Cyclops been envious of :the wearer of that coat during the. month'"of cold winds which nobody .in.tlie-distriot has felt eicepthimself:.Then again Cyclops seems to glory' in the fact' thai the Club hft3 lost -all the'' matches played this aaaeon. I am not a\-member of the crickefe club, but'l anfgjad to.hava ,an opportunity of defending it against such sneering attacks... The club has done, and is doing, good to the district. In .short, if it had not been for the oliib we ; Bhould never have heard of the " great' Beauty' whose ancestors hail 'from the. land of-the ancient Viking." " Whosoever hearejth; 'Shout, shout," putß'onein mind of Dominie Samson's "Prodigious." / .-.Alfredton'gossip reminds me very much of the story of Miko's first visit to his rich, uncle in London, and who asked" Well, Mike, wha't-Sltho news from old. Ireland?" r"And..you must have heard the news that' puld' Pat Flannigan has got a new'.doiikey."