IN PRAISE OF THE REV. JASPER SMYTH.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1673, 26 July 1892, Page 3

IN PRAISE OF THE REV. JASPER SMYTH.

Ehoa Hekopana. Onuku, Hurae 18tb, 1892. Tena Koe, —E Korero tenei mote minita pakeha tona iogoa Ko Teinaete, c noho ena Kibaksroa itona tikiwa itaemai ai ki knkaroa. Kakite matau i aia Kara Kia ia. Kakite matau ite pai otana minita, me tana wahine rawa roe ana tamariki hoki. Kepaiatu tamatou Kupu Kia haoro mai tera Kite Karakia ia matou i Oouka Heoi ano Haere eke nna tera Kite Karakia i Onuku ite wbitu onga haora ite abiabi nni atu tamatau wbak-apai kia ia erengi i kiatu i matau c kino ana tenei taki wa c makariri c rangi te ritumati c mabanana te abiabi ite roa ote taki wa c baere mci ana te minita me ka pakeba Kite Karakia i Onuku, no rtira c aiiihbi reumati ka abiabi pai i run ga itona whakaro nui kea matou kings mauri (setatnatou. Wbaka pai hoki Kiaie Kabore c tanejata otira be minita te pai kia matau te knknunui kia matau kinga mauri mote taka Ote Karakia itae raai te minita ite kau mawtiitu ongare o Hurae 17 ite wiki ite wbaketoa koto ite Hakarameta taitatau Pirangi Kia Haere mai ka pakeba etntata ana ki Onuku kite karakia, ite tnkiwa c Haere mai ana te minita Kite Karukia, note mea Komatau Konga Mauri c ititi noai bo. No reira maka pakeha c whaka nui ake ng« taogata mate karakia c rokoDa atu ana boki c; matou etaki kupu otona karakia ototaui kai hanga mo I bu karaiti. Auien. ... £ENE HOKIANGA.

To the Editor. Sir, —In your ieeuo of the 24th Jane I notice report of a fairly representative meeting held in Lβßon's, and the farmers have at last decided to erect ft factory now cocksfoot hie dropped, and ia not the mint it used to be. Among other questions Mr Yorke has to answer is, what quantity of milk will make alb of batter ? Hβ thinks 9£ gallons, Mr Crotty says 3 gallons, but omitted to state how the cowa are fed, I say 2to should be sufficient at all limes, provided the ocwß are cows, and properly fed. Most of the dairying community feed their milfee#s on pastures, a sheep farmer would reckon bare cheep feed to say nothing of fattening theaii Number seema to be the aim of the average cheesemaker. Consequently you scarcely ever see ft good conditioned cow in any yard, the popular notion of a thin beast milking best is erroneous nnd has exploded long ago. Cows are turned out to winter on cocksfoot stubble principally, often two to the aore. instead of three acres per head. After the fiist month most of the green blades are devoured, then the animals have to subsist on vegetable wood, hence some few turn up their toes, the poisonous ngaio sometimes receiving the blame, and the rest come in, in spring, poor, poor as the proverbial crow, too poor to milk well, and what grass then within reach does not go to make milk but to recoup the system after the ecanty fare and hard winter. In some instances the poor brutes are driven as much as three miles on purpose to secure the (dear) little grass growing on the adjacent roada. Truly it is a pity that little should go to waste, no matter at what cost to the neighbouring ratepayers. Leßon's has ample and fairly well placed roads wbioh shoald be a strong point in placing the proposed factory on a firm basis, but these roads are utquestionably bad, and why? The ratepayers with worthy zeal are to hold a meeting at an early date tc rectify the evil. I notice the greatest croakers are tbose who graze the roads systematically and wont fence after having received Government compensation in full, but defer fencing, to the cost of the whole riding, possibly the County Council. As no doubt they will ultimately call again on the said body for aeeistance why not appoint a ranger whose word is hie bond, and who will do his duty and not have the office a farce as it is at prew sont, or like the County Counoil's appointment end in a fizzle.—Youre, etc , WISEACRE.