RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume 2632, Issue 2632, 25 May 1889, Page 2

RAGLAN.

S.S. Stakfa. —Our local trader mil'; her appearance from Onelinnga via Kiwhia on the oveiiinsr of Tuesday, the 11th inst., just getting into the harbour before the heavy weather set in. her usual genera! cargo, she! brought twenty tons of potatoo* and a number of pigs from Kawhia for the Auckland market. After unloading liore she i.oolo on hoard nearly 100 bugs of lime, and a large quantity of llax. leaving behind a considerable qnsntity of the latter. One or two shippers who came down to go with their His; to Auckland were niucl) di*app linte.d in not getting it away by this trip. I'i.ax. — The output of this tit re still contmues, and owing to the recent heavy rains, the creeks are fuller and some of the mills that were running short time for want of water, are now fully employed. One or two parties are going in for steam power, as flax abounds in parts were water power is not in sufficient quantity. What a pity it is that so largo a quantity of the flax grown on thousands of acres has been destroyed by lire in the past in this district, which would nmv be a source of profit to the owners of the land besides those employed in the manufacture of the fibre. The Raglan iflax (at least some of it) is of excellent description, and from the great number of years that the parties making it have been so employed, they are able, by long experience, to turn out ail article fit for the American or any other market. Why should the producers here not ship direct to the markets .at Home or in America, thus adding to their profits ? Wkather.—Heavy weather sot in 01 Tuesday evening, the 14th inst., and high winds, with heavy showers, continued until Sunday last. The steamer StafFa was detained in consequence until Sunday morning, when she got Tver the bar. Pruts A.DKH-T. —Several of the piles that had been moored to the wharf got adrift, and the contractors' men had to go after them, and, after much trouble, secured them again. The hist pile of the tramway part of the wharf is in ils place, and the contractors are now driving the piles fur the end.