CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 568, 11 January 1876, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE.

January lOrti, 1876. Wb tilwiyi have lomething to grumble nt. A fr\v days ago it vca,3 the rain, now it in the exceaaivo beat, burning up everything. Th« roada, one day are h sea ol mud and the next, an oconn of dust. We Lave much to complain of here, Joss of hay and time, dam»p»done-to the crop* — mui'h wheat is blighted, and the oat suffer* from rust — and to the roads and bridge*, &c, but I Buppoie it will not lat-t for ever, such a season as we have had will surely come only once in many years We must admit, however, that tbegreori tupect of the h>lds thia year is a contract to their jellow rt)>pptirunci> ln^t summer, thu is our only consol ition. 'lho gniiu harveet i» ticadinp cloaoly og tho heols rf the hay making I nutiCD that several fields have already yielded to the sickle (tinglice leapiug machine ) The fiiinii ior choice of repro*entaiives to proceed to Wanganui for the Colonial pnzo firing was completed on Saturday last, only one of tho Cambiidgtf troop qualified, tit,, Trooper Selby, his nrore for the both dnys beinjj 170 — Own COBHEarOMDENT.