PAHIATUA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4713, 8 May 1894, Page 2

PAHIATUA NOTES.

(By Our Own Correspondent). Monday. Oaptain Edwin's predictions re a change in the weather came true with a vengeance, tho change occurring on Thursday, when it rained steadily from tbe north-east rising the rivers anil creels throughout the district, On Friday the wind changed to the South when we experienced high and cold winds, with a tremendous downpour, fully two inches o£ rain falling daring the two days and nights. However, it oleared up on Saturday morning, and wo are now enjoying bright snnshine. Potato crops " r' directions, tmtrfiMH'cases tho results are rather disappointing, there being such a large percentage of small tubers, Still with an ordinary yield the farmers will have a paying crop, owing to tbe wholesale destruo* tion of potatoes by the floods in Hawke's Bay, and the scarcity in Canterbury. The various dairy faotories in this distriot have decided to shut down at the end of the present month. Suppliers havo now become quite reoon* ciled to the lOJlbs of milk to the gallon asked by the factory. . Tho Criterion Dramatio and Musi, cal Comedy Company are playing to very fair houses here considering tho very inolement state of the weather prevailing since the advent of the Company. _ The existence of typhoid fever here is creating a deal of uneasiness in the town, and great precautions are being taken to prevent its spreading. Manyparents are keeping their children at home from fear of inftctioti. With the advent of winter, the genus swagger is to be seeu in force. Fully twenty passed a dwellingon the Makuri Road on Saturday, and with the faot of there boijg at present quite eighty unemploy® in Pallia tua tho outlook is anything but encouraging. Of course, it may he said that the bushfelling is about to oommenco, but the quantity of bush felled is decreasing every season, and moreover many of the subjects on tbe tramp are very feeble and elderly men, and quito unfit for that occupation. The swagger is already a great source of annoyance to solitary dwellers to whom they apply for food and shelter, and,in theabsence: of the husband, often make thoir demands very roughly. This is agreafc tax upon struggling eettlers, who often-times have barely Bufficient for tho wants of their own families. The foreign hawkers, both male and female, are hero again in great force. They _ tramp from house to house, and with much petsisianoe often succeed in entrapping the unwary housewife into purchasing their flimsy wares. The unfortunate purchaser has no redress in the shapo of a reduction or exohange in the caso of a swindle, or 119, allowance such as would be maderfjMedling with a local store. * I