Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1895. THE CUTLOOK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5215, 28 December 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1895. THE CUTLOOK.

A WET November somewhat scared shearers but it produced good feed, and during the present month the lino weather set in early enough to make tho hay crop a success, to ripen grain, to eirablo stations to complete their sheaving operations and finally togivo splendid holiday weather to all sorts and conditions of men, We remember no season during the last thirty years, which has on the whole boon moro fa vourable to tho gardener, the farmer, and the station owner. The outlook for the coining year is exceptionally good; abundance of feed, a. high price for wool, and it fair market for stock, are guarantees of prosperity in the good year of '96, Cheap money is also availablo and apparently every condition is favourable to settlers. Once more there is Sonie heart nr.d hope amongst Colonists and this will re-act andstimjilate all industrial, pursuits. The Colony has travelled' a long and dreary road for gome years past; but the turn .lias come—none top soon—and we. are. now ou tho up: grade lineteajj; jpf

THE IIINAH PKsr.

Mr Gruscbow, of N"ursery Road, 111 this town inforuis.M thai lie is able to scare the Minah's out of his fruit garden without a shot gun. Be suspends amongst his trees a couple of cheap mirrors placed back to back, and when a flock of the detestable birds in question catch the gleam off his glass, tliey, imagining it possibly to be tlio burnish of ft gun-barrel, wheel round and clear right away. In fact they have deserted Mr Grusckow altogether ever since ho suspended the mirrors.