Luggate Notes.

Cromwell Argus, 6 March 1905, Page 5

Luggate Notes.

(Ktoin our Own Correspondent.) Some of the crops are cut and atookod and some already stacked, while one farmer has threshed some of the now oats. The hot dry weather coming oa suddenly has brought in Home of the crops earlier than was anticipated, and the. result is that the .straw ia much shorter aud the grain not so well tilled. 1 hear Hint one farmer has cut his wheat for chair, while another complains that some of his wheat which looked a very lino crop is shrivelled. Sinco the Hoar mill changed hands again Hour has gone up, 1 hear, .£2 a (on. Will the price of wheat go up likewise? That is tho question. Suioly so ; for at the low price wheat was hist year surely IDs a bag for Hour, cash at the mill, was high enough, and now 1 am told that it has been raised £2 a ton. The farmer who It ft his wheat unthreshed last year should bo in high hopes of getting a fair price for it this year. Tho hot dry weather has done more harm than bringing in the oats, or shrivelling the wheat. It has been the cause, it ia thought, of the sickneßf. Influenza has been, and is still, very prevalent, both old and youDg being attacked alike. It is terrible to t,eo the poor little children lying ptostrato unable to cat the most tempting food. Every year wo are visited with this teirible disease, but never have 1 seen it fo bad as this yea'-. Mr Robert Kingan, of the Forks, lost his little infar.t son with it. It took him oil" in a couple of days. Great sympathy is felt lor Mrs Iviugan, who had ODly been out of bed a fortnight, and Mr Kingan was put to the inconvenience of an inquest being held, and having to hurry to the cemetery to be in time fur the remains to be buried that day. An inquest is right aud proper where there nas been an accident, or where there is anything suspicious about a death, bat to put people to such trouble wheu there i-j t-ouble enough already, and when everyone knows thbt every cate h«a been taken of the deceased, I consider to be an injustice and in this instance only a faice, If the Government were to give some* thing towards a doctor being kept in the district, or to fix up the roads with their loose ctish it would be bettor. There will be an accident yet at that cuttin" «o:ng to tho Forks. 1 believe Mr Kingan asked that something be done to it, but so far nothing has. After soineome has lost his lite steps will be taken to make it wide. An old identity of Cromwell, at present up this way for a tour, is Mrs Thomas Kecotl, of Eseott's Fancy 8./.iar, of George street, Dunediu. Mrs Fscott came to Cromwell with ! her parents when a gi.l, and she met | aud married her Imsbiud there. Mr John Wright, her fa.her, was. well known iu cromwell, aud her brother onco had the M«I «q«a«« now owned by Mr Scott, Mr Kscoft is a still older identity, having beejrj aa digger, and haying liftd.»j** '* Lho Kiwhmu WTW " ' -Ciaittioa of the Urß*--' • H« alto had one . onOreS'in Cromwell.