MORRISON'S BUSH NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4653, 20 February 1894, Page 3

MORRISON'S BUSH NOTES.

■ ) (From Our Occasional Correspondent). I ir ... .i. 0.. ■ ... j ( . Cricketint; is now all the rae;o here, . anfi there is scarcely a Batnrday passes 1 without a match with adultabr ju'veni)esj f , ' from "one W'othtt of the various town-. ' ghjpa." Of course all adjourn "to Hosf to "do to fhe espies and drinkables, and doubtless ths pro- <• prietor smiles at . '~o ricii harvest of I j golden eggs he iscoliw'.'ing, whilo tho youth and adults wile their time away I' with tho leather and the willow. last Saturday there was a double ! event hero, A senior cloven j town witii) over juat to have a friendly tnslch/and aftWawell ifentestefl gattie. j returned'homo the winners by four runs. [ ' The juveniles were more successful,hav- j I lug an advantage over the Morrison's | Bush boys of 30 runs. 1 In instanco showing the advantage of J j fc|®ltroajictjon oi new • b|ood into the j (jiirtict rauetimid, » tyown-ty lfee;i»? 1 j jfrepflet.orthjp' of the"o)d 1 / Morrison's It# run. Mr Moßerrow has , 1 been tickling with the plough about 400 L acres of the roughest part of this tun,., \ y which has been coyered for over thirty r f years with a wilderness of Maoakau and 6 ( other rubbish. The result is that he hat I j iust finished stacking a nice oven crop of I 'l tefo off (ibout 200 acres, and the other ( 1 aghit tjjere-ka njoe gop pf turnips, , ■ {bat Will probably feed ftWit]? sheep fp the acre, lu Its rough state it would havo taken 12 acres to feed onu sheep, So 1 much for enterprise I . ■ I The improvement of his run 11 not the j / piiy thlnttho dsspfret credit-for with a i (iordtln PenjipftMt-al not a]loi?lpg the | old course ot thlogs to go. on furwer, he , 7 was the prinoipal instigator of the j i residents having a daily mall service , ' rather ft revolution this, from the time whena mail from Wellington -ionce a | #eek, wis comldered ahztry and' then l

from Morrison's Bu»h to Grejtown and back was considered a Four days walk, especially when one had to bo on the look out for descendants of Captain Conk en route-tho now almost extinct wild pig.