TUHIKARAMEA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2946, 2 June 1891, Page 2

TUHIKARAMEA.

- Mkssks Gahdxkii and Bottle's Gatks.— s Much satisfaction is felt at Messrs Gardner . and Buttle rescinding their decision to close i the gates upon the road lending through , their properties to Ohaupo. The amount of • public inconvenience it would cause has evidently influenced them; but now that they have done so it is to bo hoped that , travellers will be careful to close the gates, which are to be erected by the Road IJoard, and not cause these owners of stock so much anxiety and annoyance as hitherto. As an instance, during the past season Mr 1 Gardner had stud rains of one breed running with his ewes and Mr Buttle quite another kind, yet through the gates being left open these sheep were mixed on several occasions. Thrashing.—Thrashing operations have just been completed throughout the district. with results that, generally speaking, have proved very disappointing. In some few instances fair yields were obtained — such as Mr McMiclten's large yield of oats with 20, and Mr Reid's wheat, li-j bushels per acre ,■ but in other cases, crops that promised well in the early stages gave onlv nine bushels. Mr Hutchison's ste.nn thrasher did the work this .season, and it is now being taken round through Te Rore, and will work down the Western Waipa to Kaniwhaniwha. Piu-Stealinu.—One of our settlers, Mr Livingston, has been a considerable loser lately thiongli depredations committed among his pigs: but recently he succeeded in getting a clue as to where liis grantors had gone. The wily aboriginal concerned now endeavours to show that if. is all a mistake, and, lil;e "Saiimo! Weller," is trying to procure an alibi, and may gut oil wi'h a caution. IliNKi.Ni;,—The linking season may b,> said to have fairly sut in. On Friday evening last there was a good muster in the schoolroom, several of those present being reaily good skaters. During the winter months one evening a week will be devoted to this pleasant and healthful amusement.