GREYTOWN NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4641, 7 February 1894, Page 3

GREYTOWN NOTES.

1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) 1 The Native Land Court was occu • r pied all day yesterday hearing evidence 1 in the claim of Te Kote (e Rata, a i native clergyman, to the share of (be ' late Atavata, in the' Ngawbakakupe • Blcck. Tbe claim affects some 4000 i Acres. Te Koti has been brought up 8 in tbe South Island, and bis identity • as a member of the Nga'tihikumarti t tribe is disputed. The caso is expected • to last a week, " The Greytown Fire Brigade has 1 appointed Captain Maguire to repre- ' sent it at the Napier Conference. Tbe 1 team for competing at Napier is " getting very fast. They may be seen f every week night, flying about like all 1 possessed, opposite the shed, and on 1 Sundays they discuss the week's work " and their future prospects in a cluster ; in front of tlioir station. May they 3 come home from Napier covered in | glory I 1 Farmers about Greytown are ' thoroughly disheartened in tbe matter 1 of wheat-gioviing, The soil proves 9 kindness itself; the seed springs up, tbe sttaw grows strongly, the earß come out and fill, and ererytbing I points to yields that will top ibe world's record, Then comes the Hes ; nan fly and he carefully and scientific 3 callyputs in a scarf at one of the joints a of tbe straw, so that when tbe wind j blows or tbe ears get heavy, the top , half breaks over and the result is t death to that section of tbe orop. Wbilo the fly is working, the sparrows come along. They indeed are like ; the poor, always with us. As soon as the ears begin to form, when they , are in the milky stage, master sparrow begins bis harvest, borne, and he makes it last from then nntil what is left of the grain is threshed and bagged out of bis way, Then there is tbe usual risk of rust and smut ana bo on, Taken altogether Grey town farmers are thinking of throwing up grain growing and taking to the more profitable but less romsntio pig. Cr Kempton, who is nothing if not a growler, is kicking up a row about tbe letter-carrier. The latter goes round twice a day and serves nearly , everyone in tbe borough and one or . two out of it, his round being« mile j radius from tho Poht Office. He just j misses Cr Kempton, beuce the jolly 1 row this active and ptiblio spirited > wunoillor is kicking up about it, He . wants the Ictiet-L-arrier t i go to ovcrj . houso in the Borough once a day, and i then Cr Kempton would not be uiissi d, There are some cruel people who Bay he" never would be missed "in t|ny _ case,