MANGAONE NOTES.
• (From our own Correspondent.) The harvest in this district ia nearly over, and the yield has been generally good—jn some cases almost prolific. A better season for grass seed has not been known for several yeal'fl, and an almost super-abundance appears to affect its price, In some cases tons are waiting for a purchaser, but owing to the splendid bums we have had during the last three weeks it is still anticipated that • grasssaeediug will turn out to bo one of the most repju? nerativo speculations in Mangaone, The business in several cases has been managed so well that moro than the settlers have benefitted by it: nor has any footsore and weary traveller failed to find rest and employment during the lest two months on this side of Alfred ton. The wool, too, has surpassed expectation, and tj)P people of Mangao e can nowboast of getting the highest piice in the market. This hasten secured by the iutroduotioH of superior sheep, for which the clioiato and soil of the locality are specially suitable. It is remarkod, too, that every succeeding year adds to the weight and 1 fineness of the fleece, and some of our local farmers tjpk that in Mangao ue a breed of sheep might alternately be produced the wool ot', which would surpass in 'quality that of the best Merinos ofSpain, The road is now metalled from near Altredtofl to within a few chains ot Mr 'Cosgrove'a Saddle, and for that tho inhabitants are devoutly thankful, The contractor (Mr Hayes) and his efficient staff have done their work well, and made themselves deservedly popular in the neighbourhood. The Blue Slip was an enterprise in itsslf; for soundings taken there last winter were deep enough to suggest reminiscences ofthe Atla'ntjp Cable and tho Great Eastern, Atone time alight-house and a Menai Strait Tubular Bridge wore contemplated; but time and money, with perseverance, aometiraes work wonders, and Mr Hayes and his excellent staff of workman may now be congratulated on making the ' Chat Moss of the Forty-Mile . Bush navigable. The Blue Slip has succumbed to the genius of Stephen MacAdam, and though tortuous in the extreme and abounding in shoals, the roaring waters of fjorryyrecken, even on the darkest night, arp now both safe and trpinjiiil, But between this and are still some chocolate lagoons, where deep sea dredging is carfiecj on occasionally. This denotes imperfection and a want of completeness. It is not thorough or finished looking; and therefore it has been suggested that all these Sloughs of Despond ehoiild be drained immediately, While Mr Hayes and his men are on the spot it could be done economically, In the meantime some of the County Cquocj} ijiiglit take a hint about the qnpro'tepteij state'pf the bridges, on one of which a terriblp accident was only avefted by the merest chance a few days ago, Trellis worker hand (ails of course would be rather expensive; but a few pen 0 i would purchase a skein of silk, r some threads of woollen yarn, or a spider's web, or a streak of paint, or a chalk mark, or the shadow of a telegraph pole, or anything else cheap that might give timid people an idea of seourity. And this should also apply to the Tawataia, whose narrow slab'bridges at v night aro especially dangerous," serjti|bly Speaking,' the : work jifst donft'taS' adij'ed ''niuqh to the value of local 1 but I [until' t)ie"roaoris all" ifietilled i between'thiß and EJielahuna, 1 ' and i the (jfidges J0' dangerous, the I place cannot become' as'§gpuW as l it deserves,' nojp can ocouWion of i the W b'wV.^Mira^,, f ThJ ' exemplified in the esse" of"the Mount Baker Block, which it is said the 1 Canterbury settlers have abandoned, i
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4051, 1 March 1892, Page 2
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627MANGAONE NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4051, 1 March 1892, Page 2
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