RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2754, 8 March 1890, Page 2

RAGLAN.

Flax Mills.—A flax mill belonging to Mesrsa Larigley Bros. has been started at-' | Ai'W, and another one is being erected ati Ruapuke, the water race for the latter haw ing been cut. A lar/o quantity of dressed- , Sax awaits shipment (20 tons) from the mill" of Messrs Lmgley Bros., at Kawhia. A considerable quantity of fibre prepared at the Tautarei mill of Mr Hall has been ' packed down to the beach store, Ta Akau, ' ready for shipment. Theyare running the 1 above mill night and day. Another mill, of fouy strippers, is to be erected by Messrs Langley,' we are given to nnderstrnd, at Rangakaii, some twenty miles from the To Akau Station, so that from these two mills on the Te Akau Coast a very large quantity of dressed flax will be sent away. Dog Tax;— The firmness of the Karioi dog tax collector, Mr C. Moon, after he had received instructions from the County Council to collect the tax from both races alike, is bearing fruit, as the natives have begun to take out collars for their dogs, though, in retaliation, they threaten to stop a public road. • One of the main reasons brought forward against; thw'tax in ■ the past has been the great difficulty ip , collecting it from native owners of dog^. But this vanishes when the law is firmly • put in motion. ; ;-V H ' i Wharf.—The store at the end of the new wharf will be completed this week. 1 Thk Drought.—The hot dry weather !' still continues, though there are indications that a change is - approaching, the wind ■ coming from tho north and east. The sound of the surf beating on the northern shore being heard, with a fleecy sky this morning indioates rain, though it may pass off again. The pastures are dried up, •vegetation is at.a stand still, garden stuff a I thing of the past, and if it was not, for the evtery, flowing streams- which abound i through the district, the poor cattle, horses, and sheep- vvould shft'tsr'more than they d". I As yet, all animals pre 1 >oking well, and ' keeping 1 •'in- good condition.' Waik»so • visit d'h tells us our paddocks look green in comparison to Waikato lands; if so, what must the latter be, indeed. Everywhere the earth is filled with great cracks, waiting to receive the longed for rain. (Several of r the flax mill are running short time for want of water, the creeks in some parts being very low. Visitors.— A large number of visitors have arrived here during the past week. The next six weeks or two months, are perhaps the pleasantest- part of the year, to visit our now celebrated sea-side resort.