EAST COAST NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4219, 15 September 1892, Page 2

EAST COAST NOTES.

A Budget of News. (From an Ouasioml Correspondent.) The weather for tho pist few days has been very severe, blowing heavily from the. south-west with heavy showers between, consequently it has been very disagreeable for the young lambs, but very few died, except where there was no shelter. There have been some heavy floods about this part this winter, causing a great many land slips on the hill sides and doing great damage to fencing, floodgates, etc. The roads are in a very bad slate still, us there has been very little wind jet from the northerly quarter, A largo landslip recently came I down on one of Mr G, Moore's em'I ploy6a' camps, completely burying it, 'The man must have been surprised when he came home from work. His absence probably saved him from being swept away with the tenement, A football match is to take place next Saturday between teams picked from the stations about here and Flat Point and Kaiwhata play Glenburn and Glondhu. Both teams are very much alike, so it will probably be a hard fight, Offing to the wet weather, ploughing, operations have been put back.a while, for the ground is rather sloppy in places, ; Efd deer have made their appear, ancein the hack ranges, but they do not seem to increase very rapidly,

Mr Eli Mama is erecting a new timber wbare on the Native Reserve. Wo expect he will make it livoly for the crayfish when the water gets warm enough for liiiri to dive in and fetch them up,

Tbe South Whareama Cricket Club will bold a meeting soon and arrange practices, Tho Club is expected to be muoh stronger this year, as a few more new members Imvo promised to join.

A wild greyhound dog, which ÜBed to be a great nuisance among the young lambs on the East Coast, has disappeared. Be is supposed to have been poisoned by eating rabbits. Mr W. 0. Buchanan, M.H.R., has very nearly ploughed up all his Wairongo property on the East Coast, A few paradise ducks have been seen hovering übout tho rivers in this district, It is a bird, which is now very seldom seen about here. Miss and.Mr C, Kummer, who went for a trip to Germany, aro expected back homo again some time in October,

Cottonwood is bocoming a great pest in parts of the Whareama. All old Paddy was coming out of the rocks ou tho sea coast ono day, all wee, when a shearer addressing him said, "Hallo, Phil! what's up?" Phil.—"Oh! faitb, and I've just been after a-boonting for waiber cresses, but can't find never a oneol 'em in troth ?" This was an actual occurrence here recently. _✓ Wild pigs and cattle are getting as soarce as ducks about the Whareama district ; but rabbits aro not so scarce.