GLADSTONE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3376, 3 December 1889, Page 2

GLADSTONE.

.(From Our Own Correspondent.) : The new way of' making butter by burying tho cream underground iB exciting a good deal of attention bore at present, and a good many of the small farmers "round abom are attempting it, with what sucess I have not been able to ascertain na yet, I have been promised a sample shortly and will make a point of forwarding the same to you as soon as I receivo it,

I wonder whether there is such a functionary as au Inspector of Nuisances in (ho township of Cartertoh, If not, there certainly ought to be, and if there should be I should like to draw bis attention to 8 circumstance well worthy of it. On the road from hero to Carterton you have to pass a spot a few miles out of the township, where the air is burdened with such obnoxious smells that it is hardly possible to breathe it, without becoming convinced that you are inhaling the nerins of fever, This abominable olfactory nuisance proceeds from the neighbouring slaughter yard, which is no farther distant from the high road (ban a few chains,

The (lax-dressing trade, by all appearances, is in a fair wiy of becoming a settled and permanent industry iu this district. Mills are springing up in every direction, and are turning out soma Tory good stuff; more especially this can be said of tho mill belonging to Messrs Fail-brothers. I understand you aro going to lose, temporarily, Mr Eenall, as he contemplates going to Tasmania. What will Masterton do without him ? It will be a perpetual sultry summer's day.without a single thunderstorm in your town council. I hear Ms son, who is living here, is going to accoin. pany him,

Not long ago I happened to have • a conversation with the latter gentleman, and we were talking of public men, Ho seemed to be of opinion that Mastorton could not do better Hum send his father to Wellington as an M..H.R.. Talk- of .Sir Harry's hobnail boots, they would bo nowhere when compared with hit rough-shod eloquence,