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'I'm: Wi:mii:i: ami nir. (.'!:■ >rs : A l>i>AsniiK's Siuso.W - After the Hooded state of lln' W'aipa in I'l.iiT ) i>l, no one i : \- this CR.ISON. Lite crops wen; plante !, with confidence along the low river '1 ,:, by both Kuropeans and natives. Th"sp crops recently looked splendid, the potato's in particular promising an enormous yield, lint the late dowiip-nv. coining aft"r --o much of the (Iclober Hood, and it w:u- nad to seethe dark muddy water agiin c0v,.,i,,g the cropf. A large number hive lost their potitoes, .Mr (..'alder having his second crop submerged. In iniinv resr.eets I.lus ha* been a bad sea-on for farmers. Everything promised well in t';e early part, crops of wheat and oa!.< wen: (.'M.'cplioiially heavy, yet Iho vast majority o! them have been utterly deployed by the continual wci. .\n doubt it will have"the (.Ifect oi tuiliing tin; iilteiition of -eltiers to dairying and gr.izmg, as buiiig 'ess precarious than tailing cii |is, whellier of grain or roots.
Matkimonui.. — It is .-.atisfnotoiy to know that, even the depiessim: influences of bad weather does not pievent people from getting married. There has been (piito an epidemic in this line upon the Vwtipa fo>-
some lime pa>t. Mr ,1. ''harie-<lon seur. having recently lo>t tvvo of hi> daughters in this liuiiuvi-. ami now oin , ri;-pcctod fell >w xoitlcr Mr Sempe! McKniuhthas just set an exc.lient (vsainple to some ithcr hardened bachelor farmers I know of, by joining llm honourable .nder of _ 1,,-u ; ><iict <. the lady being Miss Agnes 10. Wihon, not many y,:n- out Iroiii the l.lmui Isle.
Tin-: lio.viis. --The loads are now in a. woise state thin tln-y w. : re dumit,' Ih-; v.-inter i»iontii<, gii'.it being mad,: about the otiditioii ..f tbo main rein j to Xgarua.vahia. This icad carries a trallic owing to the Ngaruawiiliiii butler f-ictory, and has grit uitu a very lumpy uneven slate, it is to be hoped the Waipa County Cn'.incil will do something toward improving it, before the advent of winter.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2901, 17 February 1891, Page 2
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330WHATAWHATA Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2901, 17 February 1891, Page 2
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