RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2969, 25 July 1891, Page 3

RAGLAN.

X\n. -' X"w .111, 1 am! ,-Vi-tr.li in Ingiir-t prize nf flfor their eh,mini n purple 111|i suedes his (■ iillll' tu Kit;! in, is Mr T. B. Hill, who In- -etii.il mi a poitiou i.f the 1 .ti l known as Chamberlain's run, was awarded the prize for twelve turnip* weighing IMSAllis. Raglan may well lie proud of such avictiny in competition with all the principal di ■tiiet.s of Au-trali.-i, as well as Xew /-aland, and f know Tub Waikatu Timkh, so largely circulated in the Waikato, Waipa, anil Raglan districts, will be Rlud to congratulate their M-ter county on the result, which ought to tie if great, interest to the farmers in general. Messrs Arthur Yates and Co. ceitainlv deserve our thinks arid gratitude for this enterpri-e ~f tle-irs. and I hop'; Uiey will leap the lew.ml the* so lichly deserve. As they continue to olf- r a larger number of pri/.-'s this s--.i--i.ti, 1 have ii.i doubt their sale of all kinds of seeds will largely increase. — Raglan is certainly on the eve of a great boom of settlement just now. A groat quantity of land has lately been taken up and settled on, as well as the land of ab-eiit.'e holders changed hand- for tlia purpo-e of settlement. So that this district will no longer lie the "Sleepy Hollow of these puts, occupied chiefly as a IniL'e c itt le mil pit; run. but horticulture, agriculture, and improved sv-teui of farming will take its place, and Raglan harbour, with its si-ter Kawhia, will before lope assume quite a d !fenart. aspect to what it has ever had yet. Look whichever way you will, progress and seftlene nt an- going on rapidly. — A Correspondent.